As Karen Read’s second murder trial enters its sixth week, prosecutors appear poised to wrap their case in the coming days against the Massachusetts woman accused of killing her boyfriend.
Judge Beverly Cannone told jurors last week that the trial was ahead of schedule. It was expected to last six to eight weeks.
Prosecutors say Read, 45, struck her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe, with her SUV and left him to die in the snow outside the home of another cop after a night of heavy drinking in January 2022. Her lawyers say she was framed for O’Keefe’s murder in a conspiracy theory devised by the owner of the home, Brian Albert, and other Massachusetts police officials…