PLYMOUTH, Mass. (Court TV) — Hitting “reply all” by accident can be embarrassing — but now it’s created a new legal headache for Karen Read.
Karen Read talks with her defense team before the start of court and the jury is seated during her retrial in Norfolk Superior Court, Wednesday, June 11, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)
Read stood trial twice on charges that she murdered her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. The first trial ended with a deadlocked jury; Read was convicted of driving under the influence at her second trial but acquitted of all other charges. While prosecutors said that Read hit O’Keefe with her car and left him to die in the snow outside of a friend’s house, Read’s defense maintained that the people inside that house killed O’Keefe and tried to frame her.
While the criminal case is over, two civil cases are progressing: O’Keefe’s family has filed a lawsuit against Read and the bars where the couple was drinking before the victim’s death, while Read has filed her own lawsuit against those whom she says are the true killers, as well as the police who investigated the case…