Karen Read’s 2nd murder trial
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Less than a year after a deadlocked jury left her murder case unresolved, Karen Read is heading back to court for a highly anticipated retrial.
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Read, 45, is accused of killing her boyfriend, Braintree native and Boston police officer John O'Keefe, by backing into him with her SUV outside a Canton home in January 2022 and leaving him to die i...
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Jury selection began Tuesday in Norfolk Superior Court and could take several weeks, with some 1,000 candidates summoned for the empanelment process.
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The remains belong to 23-year-old Karen Schepers, who was last seen leaving a bar around 1 a.m. on April 16, 1983 in Carpentersville, Illinois.
Dozens of potential jurors told a Massachusetts judge they already had opinions on the Karen Read-John O'Keefe murder case before arriving in court Tuesday.
A group of "Free Karen Read" supporters have filed a lawsuit in federal court, arguing that a court mandated buffer zone violates their constitutional rights.
An audit of the Canton Police Department made public on Tuesday faulted investigators for missteps in the investigation into John O’Keefe’s death, but did not find evidence of a massive conspiracy to frame murder defendant Karen Read.
More than 40 years after Karen Schepers vanished without a trace, authorities have confirmed that skeletal remains found in a submerged car in the Fox River belong to the missing woman.
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Karen Read's second trial is set to begin on Tuesday, after her first trial ended in a mistrial with the jury unable to reach a verdict.
The 200-page report pointed out several concerns in how the department handled evidence and interviewed witnesses in the 2022 killing of Boston police officer John O’Keefe outside a Canton home.
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