The 45-year-old was accused of hitting John O’Keefe with her car and leaving him to die
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The 45-year-old was accused of hitting John O’Keefe with her car and leaving him to die
The 45-year-old was accused of hitting John O’Keefe with her car and leaving him to die
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Karen Read's lawyers argued that she was being framed for the death of her police officer boyfriend John O'Keefe.

Karen Read was accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe. A jury acquitted her on second-degree murder.

A Massachusetts jury returned a verdict in the Karen Read case, acquitting her of the most serious charges and guilty of a lesser…

Read was accused of fatally striking her boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him to die in the snow.

The same US jury found her guilty of drunken driving, in a case that has attracted legions of true crime followers.

The duelling narratives of a scorned lover and a police cover-up "blends every dopamine trigger", says one expert.

Karen Read acquitted of second-degree murder charge in death of police officer boyfriend