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The embattled pb researcher into suspected Boston bull slayer Karen Read has been fired by Massachusetts State police.
Michael Proctor, a 12-year seasoned of the unit who led the probe into the decease of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, has been terminated successful a determination that his woman and sister accidental "unfairly exploits and scapegoats" him and the enactment of his detectives.
Read, 45, is simply a erstwhile concern nonrecreational accused of ramming O'Keefe, her boyfriend, successful a hit-and-run, past leaving him to dice successful the thoroughfare during a January 2022 snowstorm.
Read's execution proceedings ended with a hung assemblage connected July 1, 2024. During Proctor's cardinal testimony, a bid of rude and lewd substance messages helium sent astir the lawsuit were work successful court, tanking his credibility successful the eyes of astatine slightest immoderate jurors.
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Dedham, MA - June 27: Karen Read stands successful the doorway arsenic she waits to permission Norfolk Superior Court. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
In them, helium called Read a "wack job," a "babe… with nary a--" and a "c---." He besides wrote that helium wished she would termination herself and joked astir looking for nude selfies portion searching her phone. Jurors could beryllium seen shaking their heads.
Proctor was suspended without wage aft the proceedings pending a disciplinary probe, which led to his termination this week.
The interior reappraisal recovered helium had improperly shared "sensitive oregon confidential information" astir the homicide probe on with the "derogatory texts."
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Dedham, MA - June 10: Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor takes the basal during Karen Read's execution proceedings astatine Norfolk Superior Court. (Kayla Bartkowski/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
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"Our ngo to present the highest level of constabulary services depends connected the public's spot successful our professionalism and integrity," Massachusetts State Police Col. Geoffrey Noble said successful a statement. "It is incumbent upon me, arsenic good arsenic each subordinate of this Department, to clasp 1 different accountable erstwhile immoderate subordinate compromises our ngo by failing to uphold our values."
Proctor himself has declined to sermon the fiasco, but his household has been progressively speaking retired arsenic Read continues to springiness nationalist interviews astir her case.
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Prosecutors said Karen Read and John O’Keefe had been drinking heavy earlier she dropped him disconnected astatine a enactment astatine the location of Brian Albert, a chap officer. They alleged she deed him with her SUV earlier driving away. Read denied this claim. (Courtesy of Karen Read)
Prior to the Read case, helium had an "unblemished record," successful the words of his sister, Courtney Proctor.
"Despite the Massachusetts State Police's dubious and relentless efforts to find much inculpatory grounds against Michael Proctor connected his phones, computers and cruiser data, the messages connected his idiosyncratic telephone – referring to the idiosyncratic who [allegedly] killed a chap beloved Boston Police Officer – are each that they found," the household said successful a connection to Fox News Digital Wednesday.
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"The messages beryllium 1 thing, and that Michael is quality – not corrupt, not incompetent successful his relation arsenic a homicide detective, and surely not unfit to proceed to beryllium a Massachusetts State Trooper."
Officer John O’Keefe poses for his authoritative headshot. O’Keefe’s girlfriend, Karen Read, has been accused of murdering him aft helium was recovered dormant extracurricular of a Massachusetts location successful January 2022. (Boston Police Department)
Read and O'Keefe were dating erstwhile she was accused of hitting him with her Lexus SUV and leaving him to dice during a bitter acold nor'easter. They had been retired drinking for overmuch of the nighttime and got into an argument, according to prosecutors.
Although prosecutors person named nary different suspects and program to instrumentality Read backmost to proceedings connected April 1, Read and her defence person insinuated that O'Keefe was killed by chap cops who acceptable up a sprawling conspiracy to framework her for the crime.
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O'Keefe's household has besides named Read successful a wrongful decease lawsuit.
Read's lawyer did not instrumentality a telephone seeking comment.
Karen Read talks with her ineligible squad astatine the Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., Monday, July 1, 2024. It was the 5th time of deliberations successful the execution proceedings for Read. Read was accused of backing her SUV into her Boston Police serviceman boyfriend, John O'Keefe, and leaving him to dice successful a blizzard successful Canton, successful 2022. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)
"Proctor and his detectives led a meticulous and thorough probe of integrity, and contempt today’s wrongful termination, and large harm and defamation this lawsuit has inflicted connected him and his family, Proctor inactive believes justness volition beryllium served," Proctor's household said.
"He is grateful for the unrelenting enactment of the national and the men and women of the Massachusetts State Police. His bosom is ever with the household of Officer John O’Keefe who proceed to endure a prolonged and unimaginable nightmare."
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Read's caller proceedings is expected to beryllium led by a peculiar adjunct prosecutor, Hank Brennan, who erstwhile represented the mobster James "Whitey" Bulger.
Fox News' Andrew Fone contributed to this report.
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