BOSTON (Court TV) — Days after Karen Read filed a lawsuit accusing witnesses from her trials of conspiring to frame her, the group has turned to the public for help in mounting a defense.
Karen Read attends her murder retrial in Norfolk Superior Court, Monday, May 12, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)
Read stood trial twice on charges that she murdered her boyfriend, Boston Police officer John O’Keefe, by hitting him with her Lexus SUV and leaving him to die in the cold. O’Keefe’s body was found early the next morning on the front lawn of a home owned by friends and a fellow police officer. After the first jury deadlocked and caused a mistrial, a second jury acquitted her of the most serious charges, convicting her only of driving under the influence of alcohol.
Read filed a lawsuit last week targeting some of the key players in her trials, including Brian and Nicole Albert, who owned the home where the victim was found, as well as others who were inside the house that night: Jennifer and Matthew McCabe and Brian Higgins…