DEDHAM – Testimony is summarizing for a second week in the Massachusetts murder trial of Karen Readwho is accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend in 2022.
You can watch testimony when it begins on CBS News Boston by clicking on the video player above.
Read is charged with killing Boston police officer John O’Keefe, whose body was found outside a Canton home during a snowstorm.
The trials is taking place inside Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham.
Who is Karen Read?
Read, a 45-year-old woman from Massachusetts, was dating O’Keefe at the time of his death in 2022. Prosecutors say Read hit O’Keefe with her SUV and left him to die in the snow.
Read is charged with second-degree murder, leaving the scene of personal injury and death, and manslaughter while operating under the influence of alcohol
Read has pleaded not guilty and her attorneys say she is being framed as part of an elaborate coverup involving law enforcement.
What has happened so far in the Karen Read murder case?
Friday ended the first week of testimony in the trial.
Canton firefighter-paramedic Katie McLaughlin finished her testimony over the course of two days. She had testified that she heard Read repeatedly say “I hit him” outside Brian Albert’s home in Canton where O’Keefe was found in the snow. The defense focused on McLaughlin’s relationship with Albert’s daughter, Caitlin.
Several witnesses earlier in the week also testified that they heard Read say “I hit him.” During cross-examination, Read’s defense attorneys have tried to show that some of the first responders have given inconsistent statements about what they remember from the day O’Keefe’s body was discovered.
After McLaughlin’s testimony, jurors went to Albert’s home and got a close up look at Read’s Lexus SUV.
Matt Schooley
Matt Schooley is a digital producer at CBS Boston. He has been a member of the WBZ news team for the last decade.
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