Karen Read update: Fired lead investigator on witness list for 2nd trial in Boston cop John O'Keefe's death

Former Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Proctor, who was fired past period for his relation successful the Karen Read investigation, is connected the witnesser database for her 2nd trial, tribunal documents revealed Monday.

Jurors were seen shaking their heads during Proctor's grounds astatine her archetypal trial, which ended with a hung jury. In a bid of substance messages that were work successful court, helium called Read a "wack job," a "babe… with nary a--" and a "c---." He added that helium wished she would termination herself and joked astir looking done her telephone for nude selfies.

He was the pb researcher into the decease of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, Read's fellow astatine the clip of his death, successful January 2022.

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Karen Read gives John O'Keefe a buss connected the broadside of his caput successful an undated photograph. (Courtesy of Karen Read)

Proctor has declined to remark connected the case, but his woman and sister – besides connected the witnesser database – antecedently told Fox News Digital his texts did not compromise the investigation.

"At the extremity of the day, a beloved constabulary serviceman and honorable antheral was killed," his wife, Elizabeth Proctor, told Fox News Digital earlier this month.

"The prosecution believes it’s an open-and-shut 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."

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Those texts led to an interior probe and Proctor's firing, and experts accidental the fallout from them played a relation successful the archetypal mistrial.

At the apical of the witnesser list, which came successful alphabetical order, is Aidan Kearney, a section quality blogger who was charged with harassing and intimidating witnesses during the archetypal trial.

Other names see Brian Higgins, an ATF cause who was among respective members of instrumentality enforcement wrong a location enactment astatine the aforesaid code wherever O'Keefe was recovered dormant extracurricular the pursuing morning; Brian Albert, the homeowner, on with respective members of his family; mishap reconstruction adept Dr. Daniel Wolfe, and dozens of others.

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Former Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor takes the basal during Karen Read's archetypal execution proceedings astatine Norfolk Superior Court. (Kayla Bartkowski/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

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Judge Beverly Cannone connected Monday besides granted the prosecution's petition to artifact grounds from Michael Easter, a retired FBI agent. He was expected to dissect the case's archetypal investigators' alleged failures to adhere to modular investigative policies and constabulary protocols. 

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Read faces charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter and leaving the country of a deadly mishap successful transportation with O'Keefe's death.

Aidan Timothy Kearney speaks with a newsman extracurricular Norfolk Superior Court connected Monday, July 1, 2024 successful Dedham, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

JUROR IN KAREN MISTRIAL JOINS HER DEFENSE TEAM FOR RETRIAL

Prosecutors impeach her of backing into him with her Lexus SUV and leaving him to dice successful a snowstorm.

She has maintained her innocence, and her defence is alleging that she is being framed arsenic portion of a cover-up.

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Karen Read smiles during a quality league successful beforehand of Norfolk Superior Court aft a justice declared a mistrial connected Monday, July 1, 2024 successful Dedham, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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An autopsy recovered the origin of his decease to beryllium blunt unit trauma to the caput and hypothermia.

O'Keefe had skull fractures, encephalon bleeding, swollen achromatic eyes and cuts to his close arm, but the forensic pathologist held disconnected connected calling it a homicide, leaving the mode of decease undetermined.

Officer John O’Keefe poses for his authoritative portrait. (Boston Police Department)

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The 2nd proceedings begins Tuesday.