Karen Read trial: Lead detective's wife slams suspected cop killer's media tour as 'unrelenting propaganda'

FIRST ON FOX: The household of a Massachusetts constabulary serviceman whose embarrassing grounds whitethorn person tanked the proceedings against a suspected Boston bull slayer is speaking retired for the archetypal clip – calling the defendant's elaborate claims of a constabulary cover-up a run of "unrelenting propaganda and disinformation."

"The Karen Read defence squad is unabashedly creating mendacious narratives and distracting the nationalist and imaginable jurors from clear-cut evidence," said Elizabeth Proctor, whose hubby Michael was the pb researcher successful the case.

Karen Read is accused of sidesplitting her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, by hitting him with her Lexus SUV during a snowstorm aft a drunken argument, past leaving the country and letting him die.

Prosecutors initially considered it a "slam dunk" lawsuit – earlier Proctor's substance messages emerged.

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Karen Read speaks with her lawyer arsenic the assemblage deliberates successful her execution trial, Wednesday June 26, 2024, astatine Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass. Read was charged with second-degree execution successful the January 2022 decease of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe.  (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

Proctor, a Massachusetts authorities trooper, sent a bid of sultry texts astir Read that were work successful court, prompting jurors to shingle their heads and giving Read's defence a ungraded to prehend on. 

In the texts, 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. He was suspended without wage aft the trial, which ended with a hung jury.

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Read's defence seized connected the ungraded and painted the lawsuit against her arsenic an elaborate effort to framework her, claiming idiosyncratic other bushed O'Keefe to decease and near him successful the snow.

O'Keefe died from blunt unit trauma to the caput and hypothermia during a January snowstorm successful Canton, Massachusetts, astir 15 miles extracurricular of Boston.

Karen A. Read, woman of the precocious Boston Police serviceman John OKeefe, was arraigned successful Norfolk Superior Court connected charges of second-degree execution successful his decease successful Dedham, Massachusetts, connected June 10, 2022. A photograph of the mates unneurotic was presented by the defence to the prosecution.  (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

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"At the extremity of the day, a beloved constabulary serviceman and honorable antheral was killed," Elizabeth Proctor told Fox News Digital. "The Prosecution believes it’s an unfastened and unopen case, and the defence knows this, too. So, their maneuver is to enactment my husband, the pb investigator, connected proceedings for sending texts connected his idiosyncratic telephone to his friends and family."

She argued that Read's defence effort, which included aggregate on-record interviews with the media successful which she raised her claims of a conspiracy, is an effort to taint the assemblage pool.

Officer John O’Keefe poses for his authoritative portrait. O’Keefe’s girlfriend, Karen Read, is accused of sidesplitting him successful a hit-and-run successful January 2022. (Boston Police Department)

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Read, successful a caller circular of interviews, argued that she was framed by the existent killers, whom she believes are different members of instrumentality enforcement O'Keefe got into a combat with aft she dropped him disconnected astatine the location of chap Boston Police Officer Brian Albert. 

"After exhaustive investigations astatine some the authorities and national level, and a expansive jury, lone 1 idiosyncratic has been charged with a crime, the suspect Karen Read," Elizabeth Proctor said.

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Trooper Proctor had an "unblemished" grounds implicit 12 years connected the occupation and called his texts some "unprofessional and regrettable," but his sister, Courtney Proctor, argues that they bash not undercut the credibility of the investigation: Read is scheduled to spell connected proceedings again connected April 1.

Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Proctor testifies during Karen Read's trial, Wednesday, June 12, 2024, successful Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

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"Michael — and truthful galore others successful his enactment of enactment — spot horrible things each time and whitethorn astatine times request to vent personally," his sister said. "He saw a chap serviceman dice a horrible, tragic death. Who among america has not said thing regrettable successful moments of stress, shock, oregon sadness? And however would you consciousness if the contents of your idiosyncratic telephone were questionably released to the nationalist without afloat context?"

When the lawsuit goes backmost to trial, the Proctor household is hoping jurors absorption connected the evidence, not conspiracy theories oregon Read's vocal online supporters.

Karen Read and her attorney, Alan Jackson, get astatine a edifice successful Boston, Massachusetts connected Thursday, June 27, 2024.  (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

"Unfortunately, we cognize that by speaking out, much harassment volition beryllium unleashed connected our family," Elizabeth Proctor said. "But we tin nary longer basal by and silently ticker Michael’s quality beryllium attacked and disparaged truthful unfairly."

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O'Keefe's household has besides named Read successful a wrongful decease lawsuit. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Read's attorney.