Dec. 14, 2025
The top 10 Crime and Justice Stories of the Year - #10 KAREN READ - THE JURY BELIEVED THE FRAME-UP - AND SHE'S SUING EVERYONE"
Reid Carter kicks off the Top 10 Crime and Justice Stories of 2025 with Karen Reed, acquitted of murdering her Boston police officer boyfriend after the jury believed she'd been framed. January 2022: John O'Keefe found dead in a Canton snowstorm outside a fellow officer's home. Prosecutors said Reed hit him with her SUV. Defense said corrupt cops let the real killers walk free. Lead investigator Michael Proctor fired for texting he hoped Reed would "kill herself." June 2025: Acquitted of murder. Convicted only of drunk driving. One year probation. Now she's suing the state police, the witnesses, and everyone who tried to put her away for life.
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Callarogus Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Reed Carter. Sunday, December fourteenth,
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twenty twenty five. We're starting our countdown of the top
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ten crime and justice stories of twenty twenty five ten days,
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ten cases that defined the year. Assassinations, trials, verdicts, and
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cover ups. Coming in at number ten. Karen Reid January
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twenty ninth, twenty twenty two, Canton, Massachusetts, small suburb about
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twenty miles south of Boston. It's six am. Snow's coming down, hard,
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blizzard conditions, windchill below zero. A woman named Jennifer McCabe
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is driving Karen Reid's Lexus SUV through the neighborhood. They're
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looking for Reed's boyfriend, Boston Police officer John O'Keefe. He
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never came home last night. Reed's been calling him for hours,
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dozens of times, no answer. They pull up to thirty
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four Fairview Road, home of Brian Albert, another Boston cop.
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Party happened there the night before. Maybe O'Keefe went inside.
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That's when they see it. A body half buried in
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the snow near the flagpole at the edge of the lawn,
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face down, arms extended. It's John O'Keefe, forty six years old,
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sixteen year veteran of the Boston Police Department, the man
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who'd stepped up to raise his niece and nephew after
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their parents died cold stiff dead. Karen Reid starts screaming, collapses.
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First responders arrive. One of them hears her say something,
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I hit him, I hit him, I hit him? Or
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did she say did I hit him? Could I have
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hit him? Depends who you ask. Four days later, Massachusetts
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State Police arrested Karen Reid charged her with second degree murder.
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Said she ran over O'Keefe with her SUV after a
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knight of drinking, then left him to die in a
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snow bank while she drove home and went to sleep.
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But Reed's defense team had a different story. They said
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John O'Keefe walked into that house at thirty four Fairview Road,
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got into a fight with the people inside, was beaten,
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maybe attacked by a dog, and his body was dragged
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outside and dumped in the snow. Then the cops. His
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fellow cops framed Karen Reid to protect their own. For
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three and a half years, this case consumed Massachusetts, divided
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a community pink versus Blue Red supporters versus O'Keefe's family,
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courtroom drama, police misconduct, evidence tampering, allegations, a lead investigator
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who texted his friends that he hoped the defendant would
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kill herself. Two trials, first one hung jury mistrial, second
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one June twenty twenty five, not guilty, acquitted of murder,
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acquitted of manslaughter, acquitted of leaving the scene, convicted only
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of drunk drive one year probation. Karen Reid walked out
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of that courthouse, a free woman, descended the steps to
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a screaming crowd, firing pink confetti, cannons, supporters chanting, crying,
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the American sign language gesture for I Love you everywhere
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you looked. But she's not done. In November twenty twenty five,
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Karen Reid filed a forty six page civil lawsuit, suing
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the Massachusetts State Police, suing the lead investigator, suing the homeowners,
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suing everyone who was at that party. Says they framed
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her for a crime she didn't commit and shielded the
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real killers. I'm reed, Carter today, Karen Reid. The canton
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cover up, the jury believed, the frame up theory, the
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acquittal that shocked prosecutors, and the lawsuit that's just getting started.
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Number ten on our countdown of the top ten crime
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and justice stories of twenty twenty five. This is celebrity trials.
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Let's go back to the beginning. Janu Uary twenty eighth,
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twenty twenty two, Friday night. John O'Keefe and Karen Reid
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have been dating for about two years. He's forty six,
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she's forty four. She's a financial analyst, former adjunct professor
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at Bentley University. He's a Boston cop working in the
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Fugitive Unit. They live separately but spend most nights together.
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That evening, they go out meet friends at c F McCarthy's,
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a bar in Canton, then move to Waterfall Bar and
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grill same group. Brian Albert is there. He's a Boston
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police sergeant, owns a house on Fairview Road with his
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wife Nicole. His brother Chris Albert is there with his
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wife Julie. Jennifer McCabe is there. She's Nicole's sister, her
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husband Matt McCabe, an ATF agent named Brian Higgins. All drinking,
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having a good time. The prosecution would later say Red
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and O'Keeffe's relationship was deteriorating. Text messages showed tension jealousy.
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Reid suspected O'Keeffe was seeing other women. They argued. The
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night of January twenty fe the eighth was no different.
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Around midnight, the bars start closing. Brian Albert Junior, the
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homeowner's son, is turning twenty three. Jennifer McCabe texts the
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group come to thirty four Fairview Road for a night
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cap celebrate the birthday. Here's where the stories diverge. Prosecution
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says Karen Reid drove O'Keefe to thirty four Fairview Road
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around twelve thirty am. O'Keefe got out of her Lexus SUV.
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Reid was angry drunk. Their blood alcohol content estimates put
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her well over the legal limit. She made a three
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point turn to leave, backed up at high speed, struck
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O'Keefe with the rear of her vehicle and drove away.
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Left him in the snow, never looked back, went home,
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went to sleep, didn't start looking for him until nearly
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five hours later. Defense says O'Keefe got out of Reed's
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car and walked into the house. Reid drove away, thinking
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he'd catch a ride home with someone else inside, something
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happened a fight. O'Keeffe got into it with someone Brian
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Albert or his nephew Colin Albert, who was eighteen at
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the time and appeared weeks later with bruised and cut
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up knuckles, or atf agent Brian Higgins, who'd been texting
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flirtatiously with Reed. O'Keefe was beaten attacked by the Albert's
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German shepherd mix Chloe. Then his body was dragged outside
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and dumped in the snow, and the cops Brian Albert's
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friends covered it up and framed red two stories, same evidence,
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completely opposite conclusions. The physical evidence was contested at every turn.
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The tail light prosecution said pieces of Reed's broken tail
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light were found in the snow near O'Keefe's body, proved
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she hit him. Defense said those pieces were planted, that
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the evidence was contaminated, that investigators failed to properly document
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the scene. O'Keefe's injuries. He had lacerations on his arm,
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deep cuts. The prosecution said they were consistent with being
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struck by a vehicle. The defense brought in experts who
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said they looked like dog bites and pointed out that
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the Alberts re homed their German shepherd, Chloe, a few
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months later sent her to Vermont. Convenient timing the Apple
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health data, O'Keeffe's iPhone tracked his steps. An expert testified
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that after O'Keeffe got out of Reed's car, his phone
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showed steps for a few minutes, then nothing. Phone never
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moved again until his body was found. The prosecution said
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that proved he fell immediately after being struck. The defense
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argued those steps proved he walked into the house before
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he was killed. And then there's the Google search. Jennifer McCabe,
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Brian Albert's sister in law, testified she googled how long
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to die in cold that morning after they found O'Keeffe's body.
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Said Reid asked her to do it. Was hysterical, wanted
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to know if O'Keefe could have survived if they'd found
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him sooner. But the defense showed cell phone data suggesting
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the search happened at two twenty seven am, hours before
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O'Keeffe's body was discovered, hours before anyone should have known
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he was outside dying in the snow. You made that
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search at two twenty seven am because you knew that
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John O'Keefe was outside on your sister's lawn dying in
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the cold, didn't you. Defense attorney Alan Jackson asked mccab
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on cross examination, I never made that search at two
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twenty seven. Mccab insisted I never would have left John
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O'Keeffe out in the cold to die because he was
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my friend that I loved. But an FBI examiner analyzed
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McCabe's phone, found the search logged at that time and
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found evidence someone tried to delete it. The prosecution disputed
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the timing, said it was a glitch, said the defense
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expert was wrong, but the jury heard it, and in
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a case built on reasonable doubt, that search became a
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symbol of everything The defense claimed. The people who were
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in that house knew what happened and they covered it up.
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Make it make sense. If you want to understand why
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this case fell apart, you need to understand Michael Procter
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Massachusetts State Police trooper Michael Procter was assigned to investigate
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John O'Keeffe's death. The lead detective, the guy who'd oversee
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the evidence collection, conduct interviews build the case against Karen Reid. Problem.
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Proctor had connections to the witnesses. His sister was friends
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with Julie Albert, wife of Canton Selectman Chris Albert, who
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was at the bar that night. Before Procter even started investigating,
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he was texting his sister about the case. Don't say
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a word to anyone, he told her. Julie and Chris
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were at the bar with the victim and girlfriend got
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to interview them. And then the texts about Karen Reid
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herself texts to friends, family, fellow troopers. He called her
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a whack job, called her other names I won't repeat
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on this podcast, discussed her physical appearance in de grading terms,
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made fun of her health conditions. Reid has Crohn's disease
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and multiple sclerosis. In one text, Proctor wrote, hopefully she
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kills herself the lead investigator, the man responsible for objectively
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pursuing the truth about John O'Keefe's death, texting that he
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hoped the suspect would commit suicide. These texts weren't discovered
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until years later during a federal investigation into police conduct
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in the case. They emerged at trial and Proctor had
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to sit on that witness stand and read them aloud.
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Admit he wrote them, apologize those comments were unprofessional and regrettable.
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Proctor told the jury, I acknowledged that I dehumanized Karen
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Reid in those communications. It was wrong, But he insisted,
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insisted that his personal feelings didn't affect the investigation, that
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the evidence was solid, that he didn't manipulate anything. The
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defense argued otherwise, said Proctor bias infected every aspect of
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the case, that he decided Reid was guilty from day
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one and built the investigation around that conclusion. That he
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ignored evidence pointing to alternative suspects, that he protected his
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friends the Alberts and railroaded the outsider. This case was
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corrupted from the start. Defense attorney Alan Jackson told the
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jury in closing arguments, it was corrupted by biases and
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conflicts and personal loyalties that you heard about, and most fatally,
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it was corrupted by a lead investigator whose misconduct infected
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every single part of this case from the top to
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the bottom. After Reid's first trial ended in a hung
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jury in July twenty twenty four, the Massachusetts State Police
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launched an internal affairs investigation into Proctor. He was relieved
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of duty immediately suspended without pay. A week later, March
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twenty twenty five, three weeks before Reed's retrial began, Michael
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Procter was fired, dishonorably discharged. The State Police Trial Board
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found him guilty of sending derogatory messages about a suspect,
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sharing confidential case information with people outside law enforcement, and
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drinking alcohol while on duty. My decision to terminate mister
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Proctor follows a thorough fare and impartial process, said Colonel
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Jeffrey Noble, head of Massachusetts State Police. This decision reflects
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our unwavering commitment to upholding our values, enhancing public trust,
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and ensuring the highest standards of service and accountability. But wait,
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it gets worse. October twenty twenty five, after Read's acquittal,
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the Norfolk County District Attorney's office started reviewing evidence from
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Procter's cell phone, hundreds of thousands of files going back
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to twenty thirteen. Sources said the contents included racial slurs
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and additional inappropriate language. Proctor had been fighting to get
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his job back, appealing his termination, but when he learned
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what investigators had recovered from his phone, he withdrew his appeal.
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The State Police Association of Massachusetts, his own union, voted
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unanimously to sever all support for him. Called it a
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deeply embarrassing chapter in state police history. Read's attorney, Alan
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Jackson put it bluntly, Michael Proctor's sudden withdrawal of his
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appeal wasn't an act of humility. It was self preservation.
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He learned investigators had recovered text messages from his private
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phone dating back years, and he wanted no part of
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what those messages would reveal. He didn't accept accountability. It
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hunted him down your tax dollars at work. The lead
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investigator in a high profile murder case, texting obscenities about
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the suspect, hoping she'd kill herself, sharing case details with
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friends and family, and nobody caught it. For years, nobody
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thought to check if maybe, just maybe the guy leading
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the investigation had a problem. We'll be right back. With
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two trials, two juries, and one verdict that shocked prosecutors,
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Aran Reid went from facing life in prison to walking
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out with one year probation. Welcome back to celebrity trials,
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I'm read Carter. April twenty twenty four. Karen Reid's first
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trial begins in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts, Judge
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Beverly Cannon presiding, packed courtroom, media everywhere, pink clad Reed
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supporters outside, blue clad O'Keeffe supporters inside. Twenty nine days
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of testimony, more than fifty witnesses, crime scene investigators, forensic experts,
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the people who were at the bar that night, the
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people who were at the house. Jennifer McCabe on the
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stand for three contentious days defending her Google search, denying
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she was part of any cover up, and Michael Procter,
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the lead investigator, forced to read his own texts aloud,
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admit his bias, apologize for dehumanizing the defendant. The prosecution
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said it was simple. Karen Reid was drunk, angry, hit
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her boyfriend with her car, left him to die. The
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tailight evidence, the witness statements, her own words at the scene,
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I hit him. The defense said it was a frame job.
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O'Keefe went into that house, got into a fight, was
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killed inside. The cops protected their own The investigation was
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corrupt from day one. July first, twenty twenty four, After
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deliberating for five days, the jury sent a note to
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Judge Cannon they were deadlocked, could not reach a unanimous verdict. Further,
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deliberation would be futile. Mistrial declared, the courtroom erupted. Reid's
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supporters cheered outside. The prosecution announced they'd retry the case.
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But here's what happened next. Multiple jurors came forward after
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the mistrial told reporters they had all agreed Reid was
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not guilty of murder and leaving the scene. The confusion
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was about how to deliver a partial verdict convict on
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some charges, acquit on others. The jury instructions weren't clear.
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Reid's lawyers seized on this, filed appeals all the way
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to the Supreme Court, argued double jeopardy should prevent retrial
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on the charges the jury had agreed on. The appeals failed,
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retrial moved forward. April first, twenty twenty five. Jury selection
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begins for Karen Reid's second trial, same courthouse, same judge,
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