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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Michael Casey and Leah Willingham

Key takeaways from the acquittal of Karen Read in her Boston police officer boyfriend's death

APTOPIX Karen Read Trial - (Copyright The Associated Press 2025. All Rights)

Karen Read walked out of court a free woman after more than three years and two trials over the death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, who was found on the lawn of a fellow officer's home after a night of heavy drinking.

Prosecutors said Read hit O'Keefe with her SUV, leaving him to die in a blizzard, and charged her with second-degree murder, manslaughter and leaving the scene of a deadly collision.

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