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_Published 2024-05-03. The trial of a woman charged in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend is set to begin. Forty-four-year-old Karen Read of Mansfield is facing charges including second degree murder in the death of Officer John O’Keefe during a nor’easter more than two years ago._


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## Transcript

This case involves a woman who's accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her at TV and leaving him for dead in a snowbank the case has garnered national attention because her defense attorneys have suggested a vast conspiracy to frame her a blogger is going to cause so many doubts about the case in attacking everyone from prosecutors two witnesses, which has raised questions about the Integrity of the case and garnered her strong support you with that time. The second is that the only true and just very spaced on it is that the defendant Karen Reed is guilty of murder in the second degree striking the victim in the car talking back onto the ground so I can head on the ground causing the bleeding in his brain swelling and then leaving him there for several hours in a blizzard with temperatures in the teens were swirling around until she comes up with Mrs.

McCabe and mrs. Roberts. I just after 6 a.m. And that she was also guilty of The Tickler man saw. Operating under the influence of liquor and then she was also guilty of leaving the scene. the car never struck John O'Keefe He did not cause his death. That means that something else you learned that it was no accident that you want to keep his phone dead on front lawn 34th Fairview Road in Canton on January 29th 2022. You will learn it at that address is a well-known and well-connected law enforcement family in Canton the Alberts. Cut the outlets were involved in because they had close connections to the investigators in this case.

Karen Reed was framed for murder. She did not commit.

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