Karen Read Describes Finding Her Cop Boyfriend’s Lifeless Body in TV Interview
Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman accused of hitting her boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a blizzard, spoke out about finding her fatally wounded partner in a new TV interview.
A clip from an upcoming 20/20 special about her trial aired Friday morning on Good Morning America. Her first trial for the alleged murder of John O’Keefe, a Boston police officer, ended in a mistrial in July, with a new trial scheduled to take place in January.
Prosecutors say Read and O’Keefe had been out drinking with friends in Canton, Massachusetts, in Jan. 2022. They alleged that when Read dropped O’Keefe at an after-party at a friend’s house later in the night, an intoxicated Read reversed into him with her SUV and left him for dead in a snowbank. She pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and manslaughter charges.