Karen Read files lawsuit claiming she was framed in killing of police officer boyfriend

Karen Read, the Massachusetts pistillate acquitted earlier this twelvemonth of sidesplitting her Boston constabulary serviceman boyfriend, has filed a suit alleging that a radical of existent and erstwhile instrumentality enforcement officials and their relatives conspired to framework her and support "the enactment oregon parties responsible" for the crime.

The complaint, filed Monday, accuses respective members of the Massachusetts State Police, the Boston Police Department and backstage citizens of orchestrating a cover-up pursuing the decease of Officer John O’Keefe, who was recovered dormant extracurricular a Canton location successful January 2022. Read claims the defendants utilized their instrumentality enforcement connections to manipulate evidence, mislead investigators and falsely implicate her successful O’Keefe’s death.

O’Keefe’s assemblage was discovered astir 6 a.m. connected Jan. 29, 2022, connected the tract of Brian and Nicole Albert’s location aft a nighttime of drinking during a blizzard. Read and 2 different women, including Jennifer McCabe, a suburban shot ma accused of masterminding the cover-up, were the ones who recovered him.

Neither McCabe nor immoderate of the different defendants person been named a fishy successful O'Keefe's decease by instrumentality enforcement.

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Karen Read exits the Norfolk County Superior Court, Friday, June 13, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. (Richard Beetham for Fox New Digital)

Read was aboriginal charged with second-degree execution and related offenses, but successful June 2024 a assemblage acquitted her of each homicide charges, convicting her lone of drunken driving. She has consistently maintained her innocence, alleging that investigators ignored oregon concealed grounds pointing elsewhere.

According to the lawsuit, O’Keefe was killed wrong the Alberts’ location during a late-night altercation aft dense drinking. The ailment refers to respective defendants arsenic the "House Defendants," accusing them of utilizing their instrumentality enforcement acquisition to "concoct a program instantly aft the altercation to debar culpability and to framework Karen Read."

"Karen Read did not termination her then-boyfriend, Mr. O'Keefe," the suit reads. "Rather, successful the aboriginal greeting hours of January 29th, Mr. O'Keefe was killed successful Defendants Brian and Nicole Albert's home...in an altercation during a late-night location enactment with different Defendants (collectively, the "House Defendants") aft a nighttime of dense drinking."

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Karen Read reacts during the prosecutor's questions to mishap reconstructionist Dr. Judson Welcher during her trial, Tuesday, May 27, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

Other defendants named successful the suit are Michael Proctor, a erstwhile Massachusetts State Police detective who was fired aft discussing confidential aspects of the lawsuit with his friends successful a lewd substance chain; MSP Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik, different researcher connected the case; Lt. Brian Tully, different MSP homicide researcher who faced disciplinary repercussions implicit the Read case; Brian Albert, a erstwhile Boston constabulary serviceman who had a enactment astatine the code wherever O'Keefe was recovered dead; his woman Nicole; his sister-in-law Jennifer McCabe; her hubby Matthew; and ATF Agent Brian Higgins, who was astatine the party.

The suit alleges that the "House Defendants" utilized their instrumentality enforcement expertise and "concocted a program instantly aft the altercation to debar culpability and to framework Karen Read."

Citing adept grounds from her transgression trial, which prosecutors sought to discredit, the ailment claims that the "House Defendants" searched Google for the operation "hos agelong to dice successful the cold" alternatively than telephone 911, conspiring to marque it look arsenic though O’Keefe had been killed by Read’s SUV, past dragged his assemblage retired of the location and near him successful the snowfall overnight.

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Karen Read talks with her attorneys Robert Alessi and David Yannetti during her proceedings astatine Norfolk Superior Court, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. (Matt Stone/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

The suit besides highlights investigative errors, including the usage of reddish Solo cups to store evidence, mislabeled grounds bags and a nonaccomplishment to cheque adjacent information cameras, missteps that the ailment argues undermined the lawsuit against Read.

It further accuses investigators of planting evidence, manipulating surveillance video and destroying cellphones to bolster the mendacious narrative.

According to the complaint, Proctor, Bukhenik and Canton Police Chief Ken Berkowitz had entree to Read’s conveyance aft it was seized.

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Massachusetts State Trooper Connor Keefe presents taillight fragments into grounds during Karen Read's execution proceedings successful Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

"One oregon much of them destroyed the taillight, secretly took pieces of it into their possession, and past planted immoderate of them successful assorted places astatine 34 Fairview and connected Mr. O'Keefe's clothes," the suit alleges.

The suit goes connected to assertion that Proctor and different members of the authorities constabulary "intentionally disregarded the evident and compelling evidence" that O’Keefe had been killed wrong the home.

Read’s ineligible squad says investigators failed to hunt the interior for blood, ignored signs of wounded accordant with an battle and neglected to nonstop a transgression country lensman oregon criminalist to analyse the property.

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No 1 different than Read has ever been charged successful transportation with O’Keefe’s death. The FBI has interviewed respective individuals linked to the case, but nary caller suspects person been named by instrumentality enforcement.

Attorneys representing the defendants person not yet filed responses to the lawsuit.

Stepheny Price covers crime, including missing persons, homicides and migrant crime. Send communicative tips to [email protected].