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'America's happiest murder' suspect Karen Read gives astonishingly tone-deaf interview
Karen Read compared her trial for the murder of cop boyfriend John O’Keefe to the ‘Vietnam War’ as she lapped up the adulation from fans who gathered to support her.
The Massachusetts professor appeared outside the Dedham courthouse where she has been accused of leaving the Boston police officer to die in the snow after running him over on a bitterly cold night in January 2022.
Read, 44, was dubbed ‘America’s happiest murderer’ as she smiled and giggled her way through a case that was declared a mistrial in July.
She has alleged that O’Keefe’s police colleagues murdered the officer after she dropped him off at a party, attracting a legion of devoted followers who have been infuriated by news that she is to face a retrial.
‘You’re brave. You would’ve protested the Vietnam War and ended it,’ she told them on Monday. ‘And this is the modern equivalent to that, so thank you all.’
Karen Read hugged fans and thanked them for their support as she posed for selfies and blew kisses, telling some they should be spending the Labor Day holiday on the beach
'You would’ve protested the Vietnam War and ended it,’ she told them on Monday. ‘And this is the modern equivalent to that, so thank you all.’
Hundreds gathered at protests across the state to voice their support for the former financial analyst who has divided America with her allegations of a police cover-up.
She hugged fans and thanked them for their support as she posed for selfies and blew kisses, telling some they should be spending the Labor Day holiday on the beach.
‘I hope I meet all of you one day,’ she added. ‘And I don’t know you, but I love you.’
Read had been dating O’Keefe for two years, but prosecutors allege that they had been bitterly arguing for weeks by the time of his death.
They point to a voicemail Read left him on the night of his death calling him a 'f****** loser', and telling him: 'John, I f****** hate you.'
The couple had spent the evening of January 29, 2022, drinking, with O'Keefe and a group of friends at the Waterfall Bar and Grill in Canton, around 14 miles south of Boston, and were invited to his friend Brian Albert's home for an afterparty.
She claims she dropped him at the house before returning alone to the home O'Keefe shared with his orphaned niece and nephew, and falling asleep at around 1 am.
As the party went on inside the retired Boston police officer's house, Read said she woke up around 4 am to find that O'Keefe had not returned home, telling his niece that she was 'distraught'.
Boston police officer John O'Keefe, 46, was found dead at 6am on January 29, 2022, outside a house where Read had dropped him off for an afterparty about 12.45am
Hundreds of Read's supporters gathered at protests across the state to voice their support for the former financial analyst who has divided America with her allegations of a police cover-up.
The couple had been dating for two years at the time of O'Keefe's death
O'Keefe was found in the snow outside this home in Canton, around 12 miles from Boston, in the early hours of January 29, 2022
She called Jennifer McCabe, a friend of O'Keefe whom they were drinking with at Waterfall Bar the previous night, and they went looking for him.
They returned to the house and found O'Keefe lying on the snow-covered lawn, bleeding from his nose and mouth with swollen eyes, before Read began CPR.
A key part of the prosecution's case is that they say Read essentially yelled 'I hit him!' over and over when they found his body, along with 'this is my fault. I did this.'
Prosecutors also alleged Read said 'could I have hit him? Did I hit him?' and 'what if he's dead? What if a plow hit him? I don't remember anything from last night, we drank so much I don't remember anything.'
Vehicle data also found that Read had reversed her SUV for 62 feet at 24mph near to Albert's home. O'Keefe's cause of death was listed as blunt force trauma and hypothermia, with pieces of Read's taillight found around his body, prosecutors said.
She was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence of alcohol , and leaving the scene of personal injury and death.
But her attorneys claim she has been framed as part of a police conspiracy, saying O'Keefe had in fact died after being beaten up by people at the party in the basement of the home before being thrown outside.
Read’s legal team tried to have the case thrown out after a jury was unable to reach a verdict but that was rejected by Norfolk County Judge Beverly Cannone on August 24, and a second trial is due to open on January 27.
Just two weeks after the mistrial was declared, Read decided to list her 2,000-square-foot colonial style home in Mansfield for $849,900.
Her realtor revealed that she hadn't been living in Mansfield since last year and 'wishes for another family to enjoy the property she spent many years enhancing.'
Her supporters’ suspicions about police corruption have been boosted by the case of Massachusetts police officer Matthew Farwell who has finally gone on trial for the murder nearly four years after the death of Sandra Birchmore, 23.
The state Medical Examiner originally concluded that Birchmore hanged herself, but a review commissioned by her family found a fractured her right hyoid bone which fractures 'rarely, if at all, in suicidal hanging' but does occur in 'half of homicidal strangulation of women.'
Read looked on at a preliminary hearing as her defense team showed pictures of wounds to O'Keefe's arms that they claim were caused by a dog in the house as he was beaten to death by his Massachusetts police colleagues at a house party
But she appeared to lose her cool during the twelfth day of her murder trial in Massachusetts, angrily whispering to her defense team
Federal prosecutors now claim that Farwell, 38, had started sexually abusing Birchmore when she was a 15-year-old member of a police career’s program and murdered her when she told him she was pregnant.
Some of Read’s supporters told CBS they now expect federal investigators to intervene in her case as well.
‘I personally think they are going to come in and I think they should,’ one former Canton police officer told the channel. ‘I have no receipts, just my police instincts.
‘It could be any of us that this happens to,’ his neighbor Jay Carney said.
‘Karen Read could be you, could be me, could be our children, our daughters,' added Beatrice Edmunds of Dracut.
‘Because they tried to frame her for something she didn't do, and she had the courage to stand up and to fight.’