“They did not want me to tell the truth,” Kelly Dever, now a Boston police officer, testified Monday, referring to the defense.
In one of the most electric moments of
’s retrial, a former Canton police officer alleged Read’s lawyers threatened her with a perjury charge if she did not testify she saw witness Brian Higgins and former Canton Police Chief Kenneth Berkowitz in the station’s garage with Read’s SUV.
Now employed with the Boston Police Department, Kelly Dever confirmed she was working as a patrol officer in Canton when Read’s boyfriend, John O’Keefe, was found unresponsive in the snow outside 34 Fairview Road. She said her sergeant asked her to fill in for the police department’s dispatch operations after a call came in about a “person in a snowbank.”…