John O'Keefe

Prosecution and defense lawyers in the Karen Read murder case traded barbs and accusations during a heated hearing Friday that had members of the public laughing and cheering during the proceedings. Read is charged with second-degree murder, accused of killing her boyfriend, former Boston police officer John O’Keefe, on Jan. 29, 2022 after a night at the bar. Police say,…

Lawyers for Karen Read — the Massachusetts woman charged with second degree murder in the death of her police officer boyfriend in a case that has garnered national attention and controversy — are demanding access to evidence they say the Commonwealth has been holding back. Read is accused of killing John O’Keefe on Jan. 29, 2022, after a night out…

The district attorney whose office is prosecuting the case of Karen Read, the woman charged with second-degree murder in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, issued a rare statement out of court Friday addressing speculation about the case and defending the investigation.

A gag order requested by prosecutors in the case of Karen Read, the woman charged with second-degree murder in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, was denied by a judge on Monday. Read is accused of killing O’Keefe on Jan. 29, 2022, after a night out at the bar. Police said she ran him over with…

The legal wrangling in the case of the killing of John O’Keefe, a Boston police officer found dead last winter outside a home in Canton, Massachusetts, has attracted outsized attention before the trial’s even begun. Attorneys for the Mansfield woman charged with second-degree murder in the death of O’Keefe, her boyfriend, have continued to argue in court that authorities...

Prosecutors in the Karen Read case are firing back saying her defense team is on a fishing expedition as Read’s lawyers continue to push a theory that Read is being framed in the death of her boyfriend Boston police officer John O’Keefe.

How did Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe die in January 2022? The second-degree murder case hasn’t gone to trial yet, but lawyers both sides gave hints at their arguments in court Wednesday as they debated access to evidence. Karen Read has been charged with hitting O’Keefe, her boyfriend, with her SUV that night, then leaving him to die in...

Questions raised by the legal team defending Karen Read, the woman accused of killing her boyfriend last year, are reverberating in Canton, Massachusetts, ahead of her next court date. Read has been charged with killing her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, by backing her SUV into him and leaving him to die in the snow outside of a...

Defense attorneys representing a Massachusetts woman charged in the 2022 death of her boyfriend, a Boston police officer, say they have uncovered new evidence suggesting she is innocent and that others were involved in the death. The attorneys have previously argued there was a large-scale coverup between local and state police investigating the case. Karen Read of Mansfield has been…