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A jury found Karen Read not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges Wednesday in the 2022 death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, a case that attracted legions of true crime followers who erupted in cheers when word of the acquittal spread outside court.

The same jury also found her guilty of a lesser charge of drunken driving after deliberating for at least 22 hours since June 13.

Cheers from the crowd outside could be heard in the courtroom as the verdict was read. With gleeful supporters, Read departed the courthouse with her attorneys and family.

It was a huge victory for Read’s lawyers, who have long asserted that she was framed by police after dropping John O’Keefe off at a party at the home of a fellow officer. Prosecutors argued that the 45-year-old Read hit O’Keefe, 46, with her SUV before driving away, but the defense maintained that he was...

Three years after the death of her then-boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, Karen Read was found not guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday afternoon. The Boston woman faced second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence of alcohol and leaving the scene of personal injury and death charges. Jurors in the Norfolk County Superior Court in Massachusetts announced that after eight weeks of trial, 49 witnesses, and four days of deliberation, they had come to a decision.

Read was acquitted of the second-degree murder charge, the motor vehicle manslaughter under the influence charge,...

A Google search conducted three hours before police officer John O’Keefe’s body was found is the subject of ID’s new clip from the documentary series A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read. The video reveals the startling discovery that O’Keefe’s friend Jennifer McCabe looked up “hos (Sic) long to die in the cold” at 2:27am.

The five-part documentary series will premiere on March 17, 2025 at 9pm Et/Pt, with new episodes airing on March 18 and 19. The docuseries comes from Terry Dunn-Meurer, the co-creator of Unsolved Mysteries.

A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read poster (Photo Credit: ID)

ID released this description of the docuseries: “On a cold January morning in a sleepy suburb outside of Boston, a police officer named John O’Keefe is found dead on a fellow officer’s front lawn. Authorities, citing a toxic dynamic between O’Keefe and his girlfriend,...

On Jan. 29, 2022, Massachusetts woman Karen Read went to a bar with her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, dropping him off at the home of a fellow police officer Brian Albert just after midnight. Six hours later, O’Keefe’s body was found outside in the snow, kickstarting what has become one of the most divisive murder trials in Massachusetts history — and the current fixation of TikTok’s true crime community.

Following the discovery of O’Keefe’s body, Read, 44 was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence of alcohol,...