June 19, 2025
Thursday 6/19 (Courts Closed) - SPECIAL EDITION: The Karen Read Acquittal - Conspiracy, Corruption, or Justice?
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Garrett Fisher brings you another special edition as Karen Read walks free after being acquitted of murdering her Boston police officer boyfriend. From a snowy January night in 2022 to Wednesday's dramatic courthouse celebration, we unpack three years of conspiracy theories, alleged police corruption, and social media hysteria. Did a biased investigation target an innocent woman, or did a flawed case let a killer escape justice? With a fired state trooper, "Free Karen Read" crowds, and unanswered questions about John O'Keefe's death, this case exposes the messy intersection of power, public opinion, and the pursuit of truth in modern America.
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Callaroga Shark Media. Welcome back to Did He Do It?
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And I'm Garrett Fisher bringing you another special edition from
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outside the Manhattan Federal Courthouse. Yesterday, the trial was adjourned
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as a juror called out sick, and today the courts
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are closed for June teenth. While we have a break,
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I want to turn your attention to another stunning verdict
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that just came down yesterday, one that has divided a
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Massachusetts community and captivated the nation for over three years.
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On Wednesday, June eighteenth, Karen Reid walked out of a
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Norfolk County courthouse a free woman after being acquitted of
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murder in the death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer
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John O'Keefe. But the journey to this moment has been
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anything but straightforward, involving allegations of police corruption, conspiracy theories,
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a massive social media following, and questions that strike at
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the heart of how we investigate crimes when the alleged
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perpetrator and victim are both connected to law enforcement. I'm
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reporting to you today about a case that shows just
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how messy the pursuit of justice can be, especially when
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it involves the thin blue line small town politics and
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the power of public opinion in the age of social media.
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Let me take you back to January twenty eighth, twenty
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twenty two, a cold winter night in Canton, Massachusetts, a
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quiet suburb about twenty miles south of Boston. Karen Reid,
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a forty four year old financial analyst at Fidelity Investments,
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was out for drinks with her boyfriend of two years,
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John O'Keefe, a sixteen year veteran of the Boston Police
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Department who was raising his deceased sisters two children. The
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couple started their evening at c. F. McCarthy's Bar around
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nine pm, then moved across the street to the Waterfall
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Bar and Grill just before eleven pm. There they met
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up with a group that included retired Boston Police officer
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Brian Albert and his wife Nicole, along with several other
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current and former law enforcement officers. Around midnight, as the
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bar was closing, the group was invited to continue the
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party at Brian Albert's home at thirty four Fairview Road
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in Canton. Security footage shows Red and O'Keefe leaving the
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bar together at twelve eleven am, with Reed driving her
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Lexus to Albert's house, arriving at twelve twenty four am.
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What happened next would become the central mystery that has
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divided a community and launched a thousand conspiracy theories. According
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to Reed's account, she pulled up to the foot of
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Albert's driveway in the snowy, windy conditions. O'Keefe, who wasn't
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wearing a coat, got out and approached the side door
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of the house. Reid says she waited in her car
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for about ten minutes, looking at her phone, before becoming
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irritated that O'Keefe hadn't gotten in touch with her. Red
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says she drove home alone, leaving O'Keefe at the party,
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but the prosecution would later argue that no one at
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the the after party recalled seeing O'Keefe inside. They claimed
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witnesses saw the suv pull up to the house and
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then leave, assuming no one from the vehicle was joining them.
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At six three am on January twenty ninth, twenty twenty two,
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John O'Keefe was found unconscious on the front lawn at
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thirty four Fairview Road. The discovery was made by his
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girlfriend Karen Read, along with Jennifer McCabe. Brian, Albert's sister
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in law, and Carrie Roberts, all of whom had been
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searching for O'Keefe after he failed to return home. O'Keefe
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was rushed to Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton, where
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he was pronounced dead at seven point fifty nine am.
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An autopsy found that he died of impact injuries to
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the head, including a laceration to the back of his head,
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skull fractures, a cut above his right eye, abrasions on
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his nose and arm, two black eyes, and a scratch
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on his right knee. The medical examiner also noted hypothermia
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as a contributing factor. Crucially, the manner of death was
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listed as undetermined, but it was what happened at the
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scene that would become central to the prosecution's case. Multiple
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first responders claimed they heard Reid saying I hit him,
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I hit him, I hit him. After O'Keefe's body was discovered,
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Reid disputes this, telling reporters she said I hit him,
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with the emphasis on it being a question did I
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hit him, not a statement of fact. There was also
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the matter of Reed's damaged tail light. She had told
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both Jennifer McCabe and Carrie Roberts that she had cracked
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her tail light, saying I just hit my car on
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top of everything, though she claimed she hadn't looked at
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the damage closely. When authorities seized her suv, they found
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pieces of the broken tail light and what they claimed
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was a hair consistent with O'Keefe's. Karen Reid was arrested
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on February first, twenty twenty two, just three days after
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O'Keeffe's death, and initially charged with manslaughter, motor vehicle homicide,
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and leaving the scene of a motor vehicle collision causing death.
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The charges would later be upgraded to second degree murder.
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The case seemed straightforward to prosecutors. An intoxicated read, angry
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after arguing with O'Keefe about their troubled relationship, had backed
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her Lexus suv into her boyfriend outside Albert's home, causing
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the skull fracture and brain bleed that killed him. She
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then left him there to die in the snow. Reed's
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blood alcohol level was estimated to be around zero point
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zero nine percent when she was hospitalized for a mental
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health check following the discovery of O'Keefe's remains nine hours earlier.
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At the estimated time of his death, it would have
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been significantly higher. But as the investigation unfolded, troubling questions
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began to emerge about the conduct of the lead investigator,
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Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor. During Reid's first trial,
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it was revealed that Proctor had sent derogatory text messages
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of Red to friends, relatives, and supervisors, including saying he
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hoped she would kill herself and describing her with offensive terms.
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Proctor was suspended without pay after the first trial ended
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in a mistrial, and was ultimately fired in March twenty
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twenty five. The State Police Trial Board found him guilty
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of three charges of unsatisfactory performance and one charge of
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consumption of alcohol while on duty from January to August
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twenty twenty two. From early in the case, Reed's defense team,
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led by attorneys Alan Jackson and David Yannetti, began floating
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an explosive alternative theory that Reed was being framed as
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part of a massive law enforcement cover up to protect
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the real killers. The defense argued that O'Keeffe had actually
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gone inside Albert's house was killed during a fight, possibly
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involving Albert's dog, and that his body was then dragged
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outside and left in the snow. They claimed that the
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close relationships between Trooper Proctor and the Albert family created
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a conflict of interest that compromised the investigation from the start.
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The defense specifically pointed to injuries on O'Keefe's arm that
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they claimed were consistent with dog bites rather than a
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vehicle strike. They also highlighted the fact that several people
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left Albert's house that night without noticing a six foot one,
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two hundred sixteen pound man lying in the front yard.
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One of the most explosive pieces of evidence the defense
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highlighted was a Google search made from Jennifer McCabe's phone.
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Both sides agreed that someone had googled how long to
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die in cold, but they disagreed about the timing. The
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defense claimed the search was made before O'Keeffe's body was found,
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while the prosecution argued it happened after the discovery. Perhaps
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most damaging to the prosecution's case was testimony from Massachusetts
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State Police Sergeant Yuri Buchanik, who revealed that early in
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the investigation, he had told the Medical Examiner's office that
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there was a possibility O'Keefe could have been hid in
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the face with a cocktail glass, not struck by a vehicle.
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Reed's first trial began in April twenty twenty four and
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lasted nearly three months, with more than seventy witnesses testifying.
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The case had by then become a national sensation, fueled
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by true crime podcasts, social media coverage, and the work
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of blogger Aidan Kearney, known as Turtle Boy, who championed
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Reed's innocence and sold free Karen Reid merchandise. The trial
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was unlike anything the quiet Massachusetts courthouse had ever seen.
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Supporters for Reed gathered outside the courthouse wearing free Karen
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red shirts and holding signs, forcing the judge to implement
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a two hundred foot buffer zone to maintain order. The
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polarized atmosphere was so intense that cameras showed crowds booing
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O'Keeffe's family members as they walked into court. After twenty
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six hours of deliberation over five days, the jury remained deadlocked,
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with their final note stating they were at an unmovable
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impass with perspectives on the evidence sharply divided, which Beverly
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canone declared a mistrial on July first, twenty twenty four,
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but then something unprecedented happened. An anonymous juror told WBZ
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TV that the jury didn't know how to communicate to
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the judge that they had unanimously agreed to acquit Reid
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of the murder and leaving the scene charges, but were
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hung only on the manslaughter charge. At least four jurors
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who served on the first trial confirmed that Reid was
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found not guilty of second degree murder and leaving the scene,
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according to Reed's attorneys. Reed's lawyers then filed multiple appeals
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all the way to the u. S. Supreme Court, arguing
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that double jeopardy should prevent Reed from being retried on
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the charges the jury had allegedly agreed on. All their
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efforts were unsuccessful, paving the way for Reed's retrial this spring.
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Reed's second trial began with jury selection on April first,
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twenty twenty five, and opening statements on April twenty third.
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This time, the proceedings were more streamlined, with prosecutors in
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defense calling a combined forty nine witnesses compared to more
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than seventy in the first trial. Notably, prosecutors chose not
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to call Michael Proctor, their star witness from the first trial,
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to the stand. Defense attorney Alan Jackson called this absence
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telling that should stop you in your tracks. Wouldn't you
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want to hear from the lead investigator? Michael Proctor was
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clearly radioactive. The Commonwealth stayed away from him. The defense
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made two motions for mistrial during the second trial, both
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denied by Judge Canone. The first came after prosecutors questioned
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a defense expert about dog DNA on O'Keeffe's sweatshirt, evidence
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that hadn't been presented to the jury until that point.
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The second motion accused the prosecutor of pulling a stunt
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by asking a witness about holes and O'Keefe's sweatshirt in
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a way the defense claimed was misleading. As in the
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first trial, Reid did not testify in her own defense,
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though prosecutors played clips from interviews and documentary appearances she
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had given since the first trial, trying to use her
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words against her to highlight inconsistencies more in a moment.
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Closing arguments concluded on Friday, June thirteenth, twenty twenty five,
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and the jury began deliberations after four days of apparently
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intense discussions, they reached their verdict on Wednesday, June eighteenth.
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In a split decision. The jury acquitted Read of second
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degree murder, motor vehicle manslaughter while driving under the influence,
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and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death. However,
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she was convicted of the lesser charge of operating under
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the influence of alcohol and sentenced to one year of probation,
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the standard penalty for a first time OUI offense. The
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moment the murder acquittal was announced, raucus cheers could be
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heard in the courtroom as news made its way to
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the free Karen Reid supporters outside. Chance of Karen is
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free echoed through the crowd. An emotional Reed smiled and
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hugged her attorney's family and supporters. Defense attorney David Yannetti,
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who has represented Read since the start of her case,
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appeared to wipe away tears. The crowd outside continued their celebration,
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with some chanting Morrissey sucks, referring to Norfolk County District
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Attorney Michael Morrissey, who initially brought the murder charges against Reed.
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As I stand here reflecting on this case, It's impossible
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not to see the parallels with other high profile trials
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we've been covering, like the Harvey Weinstein case and the
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ongoing Sean diddy Combe's trial. The Karen Reid case highlights
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the complex intersection of power, public opinion, and the pursuit
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of justice. The acquittal raises profound questions about the investigation
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into John O'Keefe's death. Was this a case of a
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biased investigation that focused on the wrong person from the beginning,
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or was it a tragedy that became distorted by conspiracy
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theories in social media hysteria. Reed's defense tea clearly believed
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they had exposed serious flaws in the investigation. During closing arguments,
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Alan Jackson argued that there was no collision and that
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the case had been corrupted from the start by biases
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and conflicts and personal loyalties. But for O'Keefe's family and friends,
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the acquittal represents yet another painful chapter in a case
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that has put their grief on public display. As one
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friend wrote movingly, they've been forced to continuously dispel the
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defense team's claims with concrete facts to strangers and even friends,
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while watching their loved one's memory become overshadowed by conspiracy
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theories and social media spectacle. The case also highlights the
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power of alternative media and social media to shape public
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opinion in high profile cases. Blogger Aidan Kearney, operating as
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Turtle Boy, published over one hundred articles about the case,
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sold merchandise, and raised money for Reed's legal defense fund. However,
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he was also arrested on charge of witness intimidation and conspiracy,
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showing the fine line between advocacy and interference with the
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justice system. What's perhaps most troubling is how the case
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divided a community and created a mentality of us versus
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them that may have obscured the truth rather than revealed it.
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The Free Karen Reid movement became so powerful that it
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seemingly overwhelmed the voices of those seeking justice for John O'Keeffe.
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remain unanswered. If Reid didn't kill him, who did, and
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how the defense's theory of a cover up involving multiple
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law enforcement officers and civilians would require an extraordinary level
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of coordination and silence that seems almost impossible. To maintain.
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Yet the prosecution's case clearly had enough holes that two
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separate juries either couldn't convict or outright acquitted reed of
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the most serious charges. The inconce distancies in the investigation,
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the questionable conduct of the lead investigator, and the failure
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to properly secure what could have been a crime scene
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all contributed to reasonable doubt. The acquittal also doesn't address
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