A timeline of the Karen Read case

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Karen Read was recovered not blameworthy of the astir superior charges successful her high-profile Massachusetts execution retrial Wednesday. In their 4th time of deliberations, jurors acquitted Read of second-degree execution and manslaughter successful the decease of her boyfriend, Boston constabulary serviceman John O'Keefe. She was convicted of driving nether the power of alcohol.

Read's archetypal trial, which started in April 2024 at Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, ended months aboriginal successful a mistrial owed to a "starkly divided" hung jury.

After months of further pretrial hearings pursuing the mistrial, assemblage enactment successful Read's 2nd proceedings began connected April 1, 2025. The assemblage got the lawsuit and began deliberations connected June 13, 2025.

Read was accused of hitting O'Keefe with her SUV successful 2022 and leaving him to die. Defense attorneys argued she was the unfortunate of an elaborate cover-up and was being framed by a radical of radical that included instrumentality enforcement.

Here is simply a look astatine the timeline of events successful the Karen Read probe and trials.

January 29, 2022 – the nighttime John O'Keefe died

Shortly aft midnight: Karen Read, John O'Keefe and a radical of friends went to the Waterfall Bar and Grill successful Canton connected the nighttime of January 28, 2022. According to prosecutors, Read consumed respective alcoholic beverages. Read drove O'Keefe to the location of Boston constabulary serviceman Brian Albert. That is wherever constabulary said radical from the barroom were gathering backmost up.

1 a.m.: Court documents aboriginal revealed that successful the weeks earlier and adjacent the hours starring up to the nighttime out, substance messages betwixt Read and O'Keefe arsenic good arsenic voicemails showed a strained relationship. Investigators said that astir 1 a.m. connected January 29, Read allegedly near O'Keefe a voicemail that said "...you are a f------ loser, f--- yourself" and "John, I f------ hatred you."

4-5 a.m. – At 4:23 a.m. portion dense snowfall was falling, O'Keefe's niece called Jennifer McCabe, Brian Albert's sister-in-law and a person of O'Keefe's. She said Read was "distraught" due to the fact that O'Keefe had not travel location and was not answering his cellphone. According to tribunal documents, McCabe said she heard Read screaming "John didn't travel home. We had a fight." Around 5 a.m. Read called different pistillate whose hubby was friends with O'Keefe. Prosecutors alleged that Read said portion they searched "What if he's dead? What if a plow deed him? … I don't retrieve thing from past night, we drank truthful overmuch I don't retrieve anything."

5:07 a.m. – Read, McCabe, and the 3rd pistillate went to look for O'Keefe. Prosecutors said Read mentioned to the women that she had a ace successful her process airy and wondered if she could person deed O'Keefe. At 5:07 a.m., a surveillance camera astatine O'Keefe's location shows Read's SUV coming "extremely close" to O'Keefe's SUV successful the driveway. Prosecutors accidental nary process airy pieces were recovered successful the driveway. Read's defence argues the conveyance did onslaught the SUV, breaking the process airy and providing an mentation for harm to SUV.

6 a.m. – Around 6 a.m., Read sees O'Keefe lying successful the snowfall extracurricular Brian Albert's home. An exigency responder said that portion hysterical and inconsolable, Read repeatedly says "I deed him. I deed him." The defence argues that 1 of the archetypal responding officers from Canton constabulary gave "false and deceptive testimony" to the expansive assemblage that would aboriginal indict Read.

January 29, 2022 – Prosecutors and defence attorneys hold that astatine immoderate constituent the greeting O'Keefe was killed, idiosyncratic googled "hos (sic) agelong to dice successful cold." The sides disagree connected erstwhile the hunt was made. Prosecutors accidental the hunt happened astatine 6:23 a.m. and 6:24 a.m. aft O'Keefe's assemblage was found. The defence says a national forensic adept determined the hunt was made astatine 2:27 a.m., earlier constabulary were alerted that O'Keefe's assemblage had been found.

How did John O'Keefe die?

January 29, 2022 – Police accidental they recovered a breached cocktail solid and pieces of process airy astatine the scene. A forensic toxicologist estimated that Read's humor intoxicant contented (BAC) would person been astir .13-.29 astir 12:45 a.m., much than the ineligible limit.

January 31, 2022 – An autopsy is completed connected O'Keefe. Prosecutors said the aesculapian examiner ruled the origin of decease was blunt interaction injuries to the caput and hypothermia. They accidental the aesculapian examiner did not find "any evident signs of an altercation oregon a fight."

Karen Read arrested

February 2, 2022 – Read appears successful Stoughton District Court for the archetypal time, pleading not blameworthy to manslaughter, centrifugal conveyance homicide, and leaving the country of a centrifugal conveyance collision causing death.

June 10, 2022 – A Norfolk County expansive assemblage indicts Karen Read connected charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter portion operating nether the power of alcohol, and leaving the country of idiosyncratic wounded and death. Read is arraigned connected the caller charges successful O'Keefe's death. She pleaded not blameworthy successful Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham and was ordered held connected $100,000 bail. Read made bail and was released.

Karen Read's defence claims she was framed

May 3, 2023 - Defense attorneys Alan Jackson and David Yannetti allege that O'Keefe was progressive successful a combat wrong Brian Albert's home. They assertion O'Keefe was beaten and his assemblage was aboriginal dumped outside. Jackson and Yannetti focused connected wounds to O'Keefe's arms, which they said showed helium was attacked by Albert's dog during the fight.

"This is not conscionable fishing," Jackson said during the May 3 hearing. "We've got a food connected the hook, we conscionable request the tribunal to assistance america reel it in." Norfolk Assistant District Attorney Adam Lally argued that O'Keefe ne'er went successful the location and added "There is nary grounds that Mr. O'Keefe was beaten and near for for dead."

May 24, 2023 – During a pretrial hearing, Read's attorneys laid retired what they allege to beryllium a cover-up by instrumentality enforcement.

"Certainly the Massachusetts State Police is involved. There are radical that were successful that location that are involved," Jackson said. "Brian Albert is involved. Jennifer McCabe is involved. The remainder of the folks that were successful that house, there's immoderate level of engagement by each 1 of them. Every azygous 1 of them. We're not going to remainder until we get to the bottommost of precisely who's down this cover-up. Not lone Karen Read deserves this. John O'Keefe deserves this, and has deserved this from infinitesimal one. And that's wherefore they're not going to rest."

Following the melodramatic hearing, Read spoke to reporters for the archetypal time.

"We cognize who did it. We know. And we cognize who spearheaded this cover-up. You each know," Read said connected the courthouse steps. "I tried to prevention his life. I tried to prevention his beingness astatine 6 successful the morning, I was covered successful his blood. I was the lone 1 trying to prevention his life."

Courtroom battles implicit evidence

August 1, 2023 – Judge Beverly Cannone denied a prosecution petition for a gag bid successful the case. The Norfolk District Attorney's bureau had asked for the gag bid saying witnesses were being harassed. Yannetti countered by saying it was prosecutors who are "controlling the narrative."

August 25, 2023 – Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey released a video statement slamming what helium described arsenic "absolutely baseless" harassment of witnesses successful the case.

"Conspiracy theories are not evidence," Morrissey said. "The thought that aggregate constabulary departments, EMTs, Fire personnel, the aesculapian examiner, and the prosecuting bureau are joined in, oregon taken successful by, a immense conspiracy should beryllium seen for what it is - wholly contrary to the grounds and a hopeless effort to re-assign guilt."

Why was "Turtleboy" arrested?

October 11, 2023 – Aidan Kearney, the blogger who operates the tract "Turtleboy News," was arrested connected charges of witnesser intimidation related to the Karen Read case. Kearney had been covering the lawsuit for months, often signaling himself confronting witnesses. His defence lawyer told the justice that Kearney was exercising his First Amendment right.

December 26, 2023 – A justice revoked Kearney's bail amid caller battle and artillery charges. Kearney allegedly went to his ex-girlfriend's home, demanded to spot her phone, past shoved her during a confrontation. Kearney remained successful jailhouse for astir 2 months but was aboriginal released connected idiosyncratic recognizance.

Evidence nether scrutiny

February 22, 2024 – In tribunal filings, prosecutors said they person DNA evidence recovered from a breached process airy that implicates Read successful O'Keefe's death. They said the process airy is the aforesaid worldly from Read's SUV, and that the DNA matched O'Keefe's. They besides said breached process airy worldly was recovered connected O'Keefe's clothing.

March 12, 2024 – Read's defence squad said that a federal probe into the case led to an FBI adept concluding that grounds does not enactment the mentation that O'Keefe died aft being deed by an SUV.

"The harm connected the car was inconsistent with having made interaction with John O'Keefe's body. In different words, the car didn't deed him, and helium wasn't deed by the car," Jackson said. Prosecutors disagreed, accusing Read's lawyer of "defense by obfuscation."

March 13, 2024 – In a little statement, Massachusetts State Police said they person opened an interior probe into "a imaginable usurpation of section policy" by Trooper Michael Proctor, who was the pb researcher successful the case. Police did not accidental what prompted the investigation, but said helium remains connected afloat duty. Read's defence attorneys said the national probe showed Proctor hid idiosyncratic ties to radical progressive successful the case. In a statement, Proctor's lawyer Michael DiStefano denied immoderate wrongdoing.

"Trooper Proctor has been afloat cooperative successful responding to the investigations conducted by the US Attorney's Office and the Massachusetts State Police Internal Affairs Unit," DiStefano said. "To beryllium clear, Trooper Proctor remains steadfast successful the integrity of the enactment helium performed investigating the decease of Mr. John O'Keefe. To the grade that Trooper Proctor's idiosyncratic substance messages are alluded to successful tribunal proceedings regarding Ms. Read, helium respectfully submits that the nonsubjective investigative steps helium and members of his portion took are successful nary mode undermined by the contented of the idiosyncratic messages."

Karen Read execution proceedings takes halfway stage

March 26, 2024 – Judge Cannone denied a defence motion to disregard the case. Cannone said she was denying the question owed to "extensive grounds supporting the indictments."

April 12, 2024 – During the final pretrial hearing successful the case, Cannone heard 30 antithetic motions connected which she had to rule, listening to arguments from some sides connected galore of them.

Among them was an statement by Read's attorneys that they should beryllium capable to marque a third-party culprit defence during the trial. They accidental Brian Albert, Colin Albert, and Brian Higgins, each of whom were contiguous astatine the enactment John O'Keefe was astatine the nighttime helium died, could person killed O'Keefe.

Prosecutor Lally called it a "fanciful story," but told the justice "there's really nary existent evidence."

Jury enactment begins

April 16, 2024 – Karen Read's second-degree execution proceedings began with jury selection. A full of 4 jurors were added connected the archetypal day.

April 17, 2024 – Jury enactment continued for a second day, with 7 much jurors added.

April 17, 2024 – A 3rd time of jury enactment wrapped without a afloat assemblage seated. Two much jurors were added, but 1 from a erstwhile time was excused, bringing the full fig of jurors seated truthful acold to 12.

April 24, 2024 – A jury was seated connected the 5th time of assemblage enactment implicit the people much than a week. The proceedings is scheduled to past 6-8 weeks erstwhile a assemblage is seated.

Testimony underway

April 29, 2024 – Opening statments and grounds got underway with the first witnesses called. John O'Keefe's member Paul and his woman Erin were the archetypal 2 connected the stand. Canton constabulary serviceman Steve Saraf besides began his testimony. Prosecutors showed video from Saraf's dashboard camera arsenic helium arrived connected scene.

April 30, 2024 – A Canton paramedic who treated John O'Keefe the time helium died testified that helium heard a pistillate saying "I deed him, I deed him." Read's defence squad argued that the man's grounds has changed implicit time.

May 2, 2024 – Four paramedics and firefighters testified astir what they heard Read accidental the greeting O'Keefe's assemblage was found.

May 6, 2024 – Jurors heard the 911 calls from the time O'Keefe's assemblage was found. Police who responded to the country testified arsenic good connected the 5th time of testimony.

May 7, 2024 – Several Canton constabulary officers testified astir their handling of the transgression scene. Among them was Sgt. Michael Lank, who Read's defence squad argued had personal connections to the location wherever John O'Keefe's assemblage was recovered successful 2022.

May 10, 2024 – There was a intermission successful the proceedings arsenic Judge Cannone heard arguments astir whether Aidan Kearney, who publishes arsenic "Turtleboy" for his site, TB Daily News, should beryllium allowed successful the courtroom. He is facing charges of witnesser intimidation involving radical successful the Read case. The justice ruled that Kearney indispensable permission the courtroom erstwhile definite witnesses instrumentality the stand.

Also that day, retired Boston constabulary serviceman Brian Albert took the stand. He owned the location wherever O'Keefe's assemblage was found. Albert testified that O'Keefe and Read ne'er entered his location the nighttime of the incident.

May 14, 2024 – A pistillate who was astatine Brian Albert's Fairview Road location the nighttime O'Keefe died said she saw a "black blob" successful the tract arsenic she was leaving. The defence called it a "made-up story."

May 15, 2024 – Allie McCabe, a prosecution witness, broke down successful tears connected the basal describing harassment successful the case. Colin Albert, who the defence claims could person been progressive successful a combat that killed O'Keefe, was besides called arsenic a witness.

May 16, 2024 – Colin Albert finished his testimony with cross-examination that focused connected what defence attorneys assertion is simply a past of convulsive behavior.

May 17, 2024 – Jennifer McCabe, a cardinal witnesser successful the case, took the stand. She was with Read the greeting O'Keefe's assemblage was found. McCabe testified that Read asked her to Google however agelong it would instrumentality idiosyncratic to dice successful the cold. Defense attorneys reason the hunt really happened earlier O'Keefe's assemblage was found. Court ended for the time earlier Read's attorneys began to cross-examine McCabe.

May 21, 2024 – Jennifer McCabe was back connected the stand, this clip for respective hours of contentious cross-examination by Alan Jackson. This time marked the archetypal clip Kearney's "Turtleboy" tract has been straight referenced.

Jennifer McCabe said defence lawyer Alan Jackson had enactment the accusation retired connected societal media, but Jackson said helium had not. "I'm sorry. Turtleboy did," the witnesser responded. Earlier successful the day, Jennifer McCabe referred to Kearney arsenic "some named blogger that I deliberation the defence is precise acquainted with."

May 24, 2024 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives cause Brian Higgins was connected the stand. Prosecutors presented "flirty" substance messages helium and Read shared successful the weeks starring up to O'Keefe's death. Defense attorneys person said Higgins is 1 of 3 men they assertion could person been liable for sidesplitting O'Keefe during a fight.

May 28, 2024 – Brian Higgins completed his testimony. Other witnesses were called, including O'Keefe's niece and nephew. They testified astir a strained narration betwixt Read and O'Keefe.

June 3, 2024 – Testimony focused connected broken taillight pieces that were recovered astatine the country of O'Keefe's death.

June 5, 2024 – Several videos were played that prosecutors accidental amusement Read drinking galore cocktails successful the hours earlier O'Keefe died. They besides focused connected what they accidental was a breached taillight successful Read's SUV.

June 6, 2024 – Defense lawyer Alan Jackson told reporters that Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor, who Read's attorneys person tried to amusement could person planted grounds to assistance friends who are witnesses successful the case, volition take the basal arsenic a witness for the prosecution. There had been uncertainty erstwhile and however Proctor would testify, arsenic helium is listed connected the defence and prosecution's witnesser lists. Proctor is presently nether probe by Massachusetts State Police for his behaviour successful the case, though the circumstantial crushed is not known and helium has denied wrongdoing. It is not yet known erstwhile Proctor volition instrumentality the stand.

The aforesaid time arsenic Jackson's comments, Judge Beverly Cannone told jurors "I tin safely accidental that you volition get this lawsuit for your deliberation sometime successful the past week successful June."

June 10, 2024 – Cannone heard arguments from some sides without the assemblage contiguous astir the prosecution's motion to exclude testimony from a witnesser who is expected to attest that scratches connected O'Keefe's limb were accordant with injuries from a canine attack.

Trooper Proctor besides took the basal that day, speechmaking derogatory substance messages helium sent to friends and colleagues astir Read portion investigating the case.

June 12, 2024 – Proctor completed tense cross-examination and stepped down from the witnesser stand. During his testimony, Proctor was grilled implicit a substance connection helium sent astir Read saying "hopefully she kills herself."

June 14, 2024 – Testimony focused connected Read's SUV traveling successful reverse the nighttime of O'Keefe's death, arsenic good arsenic the clip of erstwhile Jennifer McCabe hunt connected Google however agelong it would instrumentality a idiosyncratic to dice successful the cold.

June 20, 2024 – Prosecutors played angry voicemails that Read near for O'Keefe not agelong aft prosecutors accidental she deed and killed him.

Karen Read execution proceedings ends, deliberations begin

June 21, 2024 – The prosecution rested its case and defence attorneys began calling witnesses.

June 24, 2024 – The defence rested its case aft calling its last 3 witnesses.

June 25, 2024 – Attorneys presented closing arguments and jurors began deliberating.

June 26, 2024 – Day 2 of juror deliberations ended without a verdict aft astir 7 hours. While jurors deliberated, Read's attorneys question the verdict slip, starring to a tense infinitesimal with Judge Beverly Cannone.

June 28, 2024 – Jurors sent a enactment to Judge Cannone, telling her they are deadlocked. The justice responded that she did not judge they had deliberated agelong enough, and asked them to proceed trying to scope a verdict.

Mistrial declared successful Karen Read execution trial

July 1, 2024 – The assemblage sent different enactment to Judge Cannone, for a 2nd clip telling her they are incapable to scope a unanimous verdict. The assemblage said they are "deeply divided," and Cannone asked them to instrumentality for 1 last circular of deliberations. Later successful the day, a mistrial was declared owed to the hung jury.

July 1, 2024 – Hours aft the mistrial was declared, Massachusetts State Police announced that Trooper Michael Proctor, the pb researcher successful the case, has been "relieved of duty."

July 3, 2024 – In an exclusive interview with WBZ-TV, John O'Keefe's member addressed the mistrial.

Fallout from the Karen Read trial

July 8, 2024 – Read's defence attorneys filed a motion to dismiss for 2 charges. In the filing, they assertion the assemblage unanimously agreed that Read was not blameworthy connected those counts portion being deadlocked connected a 3rd charge.

July 8, 2024 – Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor was suspended without pay pursuing a work hearing.

July 9, 2024 – The national for Massachuestts State Police troopers responded to the suspension, calling it "disappointing."

July 9, 2024 – The Board of Selectmen announced that Canton constabulary serviceman Kevin Albert was enactment connected permission related to Proctor's grounds during the trial.

July 10, 2024 – In a caller tribunal filing, Read's attorneys accidental another juror told them determination was a unanimous statement that Read was not blameworthy connected 2 counts.

July 12, 2024 - Prosecutors fired back astatine the defense's effort to get 2 of the 3 charges against Read dismissed, saying she consented to the mistrial.

July 18, 2024 - An unnamed juror successful the lawsuit said successful a court filing that they fearfulness for their safety.

July 22, 2024 - An anonymous juror tells WBZ-TV that the assemblage didn't cognize however to communicate to the justice that they had unanimously agreed to acquit Read of 2 charges. Judge Cannone sets a caller proceedings date for Jan. 27, 2025.

August 9, 2024 - The lawsuit returned to tribunal for a dismissal hearing arsenic the defence tried to person the justice to propulsion retired 2 charges against Read. Judge Beverly Cannone took arguments nether consideration, but did not marque a ruling.

August 23, 2024 - Judge Cannone rejects Karen Read's effort to get 2 of the charges against her dismissed. Read's attorneys program to appeal.

September 11, 2024 - Karen Read's ineligible squad files an appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

September 12, 2024 - Canton constabulary serviceman Kevin Albert, the member of Brian Albert, is back connected the job aft being placed connected permission during the trial.

September 18, 2024 - Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey appoints Special Assistant District Attorney Hank Brennan to pb the Commonwealth's retrial of Karen Read.

September 20, 2024 - Karen Read's entreaty of 2 charges volition beryllium heard by the full panel of Massachusetts' highest court, but it could hold her trial.

September 23, 2024 - Discipline was announced for 2 radical connected to the Karen Read investigation. Canton Police detective Kevin Albert was suspended without wage for 3 eight-hour shifts. An probe recovered that the detective, whose member Brian Albert owned the location wherever John O'Keefe's assemblage was found, behaved successful a mode that was unbecoming of a constabulary serviceman and violated section policies astir intoxicant depletion oregon possession connected the job.

Massachusetts State Police announced the aforesaid time that Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik, who was 1 of the pb investigators successful the case, forfeited 5 abrogation days pursuing an interior affairs investigation. Bukhenik was successful 1 of the radical chats successful which Trooper Michael Proctor sent the inappropriate substance messages.

October 17, 2024 - Massachusetts State Police accidental they spent $258,278.94 connected information for Karen Read's archetypal trial.

October 18, 2024 - Prosecutors question telephone records from Karen Read's father. When her 2nd proceedings begins, prosecutors program to telephone William Read arsenic a witness.

October 18, 2024 - Detective Lieutenant Brian Tully, the taxable of an ongoing interior affairs investigation, was transferred out of the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office. Tully testified during Read's archetypal trial.

October 28, 2024 - Lawyers for Karen Read privation a wrongful decease suit against her to beryllium delayed until aft her 2nd transgression trial, an contented they argued earlier Judge William White, Jr. successful Plymouth Superior Court successful Brockton.

October 29, 2024 - Vanity Fair releases the first part of its highly anticipated Karen Read interview. She told the mag she owes astatine slightest $5 cardinal successful ineligible fees.

October 30, 2024 - The second part of Vanity Fair's interrogation with Karen Read is released. She responds to disapproval from the O'Keefe family, including straight responding to quotes from Paul O'Keefe's interview with WBZ-TV in July.

November 1, 2024 - The justice overseeing the wrongful decease suit against Karen Read rules that she volition not person to beryllium deposed successful the civilian lawsuit until aft her 2nd transgression proceedings is over.

Preparations for Karen Read's 2nd trial

November 4, 2024 - The prosecution and defence teams filed a question successful tribunal calling for Read's 2nd transgression trial, scheduled to commencement connected Jan. 27, 2025, to beryllium postponed until April 1, 2025.

November 6, 2024 - Read's effort to get immoderate transgression charges against her thrown retired connected the grounds of treble jeopardy came earlier the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Attorneys for some sides made their lawsuit during the hearing. No determination has been announced yet.

November 7, 2024 - The Norfolk County District Attorney's Office requests the unredacted audio recordings, notes, and texts betwixt Karen Read and a Boston Magazine reporter.

November 26, 2024 - During an evidentiary hearing, prosecutors asked the justice to let them to get telephone records for Karen Read's parents. The defence called the petition a "fishing expedition." Judge Beverly Cannone did not regularisation connected the petition and took arguments nether advisement.

November 29, 2024 - Judge Cannone rejects the prosecution's petition for the telephone records of Karen Read's parents.

December 3, 2024 - Prosecutors are asking Judge Cannone to support adept grounds astir an alleged canine onslaught retired of Karen Read's 2nd trial.

December 5, 2024 - Judge Beverly Cannone approved a request from prosecutors to get entree to unedited and off-the-record recordings from interviews with Karen Read and her family.

December 9, 2024 - After conscionable implicit a month, Judge Cannone approved the associated motion by the defence and prosecution to hold the commencement of Karen Read's 2nd trial.

December 30, 2024 - Former Canton Police Chief Ken Berkowitz, who alerted Massachusetts State Police to taillight grounds during the investigation, died.

January 2, 2025 - Prosecutors asked to exclude testimony from defence adept Richard Green surrounding Jen McCabe's "ho[w] agelong to dice successful cold" Google search.

January 6, 2025 - According to a tribunal filing, Trooper Michael Proctor has a misconduct hearing scheduled for January 15.

January 15, 2025 - Trooper Michael Proctor's misconduct proceeding got underway astatine Massachusetts State Police office successful Framingham.

January 23, 2025 - Karen Read's ineligible squad wants the authorities to wage for question expenses for 1 of her defence experts. Read's attorneys say that the Canton Police Department did not sphere video footage, but that was not disclosed. As a result, they accidental their adept wasted his time.

January 29, 2025 - John O'Keefe's household provided a statement to WBZ-TV arsenic they marked 3 years since his death. "It has been 3 years since Johnny was senselessly taken from us. The void successful our lives grows with each passing day, week, period and year. His lack is profound and we volition proceed to question justness for him. He is ever successful our hearts," the O'Keefe household said.

February 6, 2025 - A hearing was held successful the lawsuit arsenic attorneys discussed imaginable grounds for Read's 2nd proceedings and who should person to wage for a defence adept who says helium was unsuccessfully capable to analyse video from the Canton Police Department. Following the hearing, the justice ruled against the defense's petition to person the authorities wage for the expert.

February 10, 2025 - Trooper Michael Proctor was backmost astatine Massachusetts State Police office successful Framingham for the 2nd time of grounds successful his trial committee hearing to find his nonrecreational future. The proceeding was not unfastened to the public. A 3rd proceeding time was scheduled for March 13.

February 11, 2025 - The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court denied Read's appeal arsenic she sought to person immoderate of the charges against her dismissed.

February 12, 2025 - Among implicit a dozen caller filings successful the lawsuit was a petition by the defence for unredacted documents from the probe into the decease of Sandra Birchmore.

February 18, 2025 - Judge Cannone abruptly halted a proceeding successful the lawsuit aft the prosecution raised concerns astir defence attorneys' conversations with a clang reconstruction adept hired by the national government.

February 20, 2025 - Judge Cannone issues a scheduling order that reads, successful part, "Counsel should beryllium prepared to code issues related to the Defendant's caller accumulation pursuant to Rule 14, particularly arsenic the materials produced subordinate to anterior representations made to the tribunal connected the grounds by defence counsel concerning the ARCCA witnesses."

February 24, 2025 - A idiosyncratic briefed connected the concern tells WBZ it is expected to beryllium announced astatine Karen Read's February 25 proceeding that a national probe into the decease of John O'Keefe - and by association, Karen Read's lawsuit - has ended and that nary charges volition beryllium filed.

February 25, 2025 - At a tense hearing, Karen Read's attorneys defended their communications with a witnesser successful the archetypal trial. Karen Read's defence alleges "misdirections" by prosecution.

February 25, 2025 - Following the hearing, supporters greeted Read with flowers extracurricular the courtroom connected her 45th birthday.

February 28, 2025 - Karen Read's defence files a motion to dismiss her full lawsuit for reasons of "extraordinary governmental misconduct."

March 4, 2025 - Special authoritative Hank Brennan confirmed successful tribunal that the federal probe into John O'Keefe's decease is over. Canton Police Chief Helena Rafferty aboriginal issued a connection saying the national probe "is nary longer progressive and volition beryllium closed."

March 5, 2025 - The lawsuit was the subject of 2 hearings successful abstracted courthouses. Karen Read appealed a caller determination by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court astatine national tribunal successful South Boston. Read and her attorneys past headed to Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham wherever her defence argued its precocious filed Motion to Dismiss.

March 13, 2025 - Trooper Michael Proctor returned earlier a Massachusetts State Police proceedings committee for a third day. Proctor's household besides released a statement, accusing Read's defence squad of utilizing the trooper to "deflect from the overwhelming evidence."

March 13, 2025 - A federal justice denied Read's petition to driblet 2 charges against her, saying Judge Cannone was not incorrect successful declaring a mistrial.

March 18, 2025 - Judge Cannone admonished the defence squad connected Tuesday for "repeated misrepresentations" to the court. Despite the stern warning, Cannone did not region immoderate lawyers from the case.

March 19, 2025 - Michael Proctor, the pb researcher successful Read's case, was fired by Massachusetts State Police.

March 20, 2025 - For the archetypal time, Read and Aidan Kearney, the blogger who writes nether the sanction "Turtleboy" appeared during a proceeding together. Prosecutors are seeking messages betwixt the two, which Read and her attorneys entity to.

March 21, 2025 - Karen Read's attorneys asked a national justice to hold the commencement of her adjacent trial, aft the petition was rejected the time earlier by Judge Beverly Cannone. The national justice denied Read's request.

March 24, 2025 - Prosecutors are seeking messages betwixt Karen Read and her defence lawyer David Yannetti successful the days pursuing O'Keefe's death.

March 25, 2025 - As expected, Judge Beverly Cannone rejected the petition for substance messages betwixt Read and Yannetti during the last pretrial hearing. Cannone besides said she expects assemblage enactment to instrumentality a "very agelong time."

March 25, 2025 - Judge Cannone denied Karen Read's question to dismiss the full lawsuit against her, mounting the signifier for her 2nd high-profile proceedings to get underway.

March 26, 2025 - Karen Read added a erstwhile juror from her archetypal proceedings to her ineligible team.

March 27, 2025 - Karen Read's question to enactment authorities tribunal proceedings pending entreaty is denied by First Circuit Court of Appeals. The tribunal affirmed the little national court's decision.

March 31, 2025 - The defence volition not beryllium allowed to blasted Colin Albert for John O'Keefe's death, Judge Beverly Cannone ruled.

Karen Read's 2nd proceedings begins

April 1, 2025 - Karen Read's 2nd proceedings officially got underway with jury selection.

April 2, 2025 - The assemblage for Karen Read's 2nd proceedings reached seven members. Read's supporters besides filed a lawsuit successful national court, arguing that a tribunal mandated buffer portion violates their law rights.

April 3, 2025 - Ten jurors person been seated aft 3 days of assemblage selection.

April 3, 2025 - Karen Read has appealed her case to the highest tribunal possible, the U.S. Supreme Court.

April 7, 2025 - Karen Read is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hold her authorities proceedings portion they determine if they volition instrumentality up her appeal.

April 9, 2025 - Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. Supreme Court denied Karen Read's petition to intermission her trial. The Supreme Court volition reappraisal whether to instrumentality the lawsuit connected April 25. Fifteen jurors person been seated for the trial.

April 13, 2025 - A national justice ruled against Read's supporters who wanted to beryllium capable to protestation person to the courthouse up of her 2nd trial, saying the buffer portion does not interruption their law rights.

April 15, 2025 - A assemblage was seated for Karen Read's 2nd trial, with opening statements scheduled to instrumentality spot successful a week.

April 16, 2025 - The final question hearing earlier the commencement of the proceedings was held. Arguments were heard implicit topics that included national ARCCA witnesses. Aidan "Turtleboy" Kearney besides said done his lawyer that helium would plead the Fifth Amendment if called arsenic a witness, and prosecutors agreed not to telephone him.

April 22, 2025 - Attorneys gave opening statements arsenic the proceedings officially got underway. The archetypal 2 witnesses were besides called.

April 23, 2025 - John O'Keefe's mother, Peggy O'Keefe, took the stand. It was the archetypal clip she has spoken retired publically since her son's death.

April 24, 2025 - Text messages betwixt Karen Read and John O'Keefe successful the hours starring up to his decease were read connected the 3rd time of trial.

April 25, 2025 - Jurors visited Brian Albert's erstwhile home astatine 34 Fairview Road successful Canton. The tribunal besides heard from 2 witnesses: a paramedic who took Read to the infirmary the time that O'Keefe was recovered dead, and a doc who tested her humor intoxicant level that morning.

April 28, 2025 - The United States Supreme Court announced that it volition not perceive Karen Read's entreaty connected grounds of treble jeopardy.

April 28, 2025 - A half time of witnesser testimony focused connected Jen McCabe's "how agelong to dice successful cold" Google hunt and John O'Keefe's movements the nighttime of his death. Then defence clang reconstruction experts were questioned without the assemblage present.

April 29, 2025 - Key witnesser Jen McCabe began her testimony. Judge Beverly Cannone issued a stern informing for defence attorneys, but allowed upcoming grounds from defence clang reconstruction experts.

April 30, 2025 - Jen McCabe was backmost connected the basal for hours of tense cross-examination during the seventh time of witnesser testimony.

May 2, 2025 - Witness Jen McCabe finishes testimony aft heated speech with Read's defence attorney.

May 5, 2025 - Canton firefighter-paramedic Katie McLaughlin testified that she heard Read repeatedly accidental "I deed him" aft O'Keefe's assemblage was found. Retired Canton Police Lt. Paul Gallagher testifies astir responding to the scene, utilizing a leafage blower to determination snow.

May 6, 2025 - Several witnesses took the basal connected the 10th time of testimony. Jurors heard several aggravated voicemails that Karen Read near for John O'Keefe successful the aboriginal greeting hours connected January 29, 2022.

May 7, 2025 - Forensic adept Jessica Hyde, who analyzed Jennifer McCabe's Google search, and State Police trooper Connor Keefe testify.

May 8, 2025 - Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik took the basal to testify astir grounds collection and the relation of his erstwhile workfellow Michael Proctor.

May 9, 2025 - Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik read substance messages betwixt Brian Higgins and Karen Read.

May 12, 2025 - After 3 afloat days connected the witnesser stand, Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik concluded his testimony.

May 13, 2025 - Court was canceled for the time unexpectedly conscionable earlier proceedings were scheduled to statesman due to the fact that Karen Read was sick.

May 14, 2025 - Jurors perceive from John O'Keefe's niece, and crime country technicians.

May 15, 2025 - Massachusetts State Police forensic idiosyncratic Maureen Hartnett and aesculapian examiner Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello testify.

May 16, 2025 - Witness testimony from 2 Massachusetts State Police transgression laboratory analysts, and a connection from the justice to jurors astir however they behaviour themselves successful court.

May 19, 2025 - A forensic analyst for the prosecution testified astir the movements of Karen Read's Lexus SUV connected the nighttime successful question.

May 20, 2025 - Karen Read's lawyer questions forensic expert Shanon Burgess' timeline of the night John O'Keefe died.

May 21, 2025 - Judge Beverly Cannone delayed the commencement of testimony, saying she had to question jurors individually aft an contented was brought to her attention.

May 27, 2025 - Judson Welcher, a prosecution mishap reconstruction expert, took the stand for nonstop questioning.

May 28, 2025 - Defense begins cross examination of clang reconstruction adept Judson Welcher.

May 29, 2025 - The prosecution rested its lawsuit aft Judson Welcher completed his testimony.

May 30, 2025 - The first witnesser called by defense lawyer Alan Jackson was Matthew DiSogra, a integer forensics adept who specializes successful car information and clang reconstruction.

June 2, 2025 - Former Canton constabulary serviceman Kelly Dever, Dr. Marie Russell, and a person of erstwhile authorities constabulary trooper Michael Proctor were called to the basal by Karen Read's defence team.

June 3, 2025 - During a 2nd time of questioning of canine wound adept Dr. Marie Russell, the defence called for a mistrial with prejudice, but was denied. A Dighton constabulary serviceman besides testified astir however helium remembered seeing harm to Read's taillight compared to however it is pictured hours aboriginal successful the Canton Police Department garage.

June 4, 2025 - Snowplow operator Brian "Lucky" Loughran testified astir not seeing a assemblage connected Fairview Road successful Canton connected the nighttime O'Keefe died. Loughran was cross-examined astir however Aidan "Turtleboy" Kearney's sum could person influenced his testimony.

June 5, 2025 - Jurors were given the time off due to the fact that of heat. The justice said fans and aerial conditioning units would make sound and marque witnesses hard to hear.

June 6, 2025 - The lone witnesser connected the basal all time was Daniel Wolfe, a clang reconstructionist for engineering consulting steadfast ARCCA.

June 9, 2025 - The defense's petition for a mistrial was denied. Attorneys had accused the prosecution of a "stunt" erstwhile Hank Brennan asked Wolfe astir holes successful O'Keefe's sweatshirt, and if they could person been caused by a autumn backwards. Brennan aboriginal admitted helium made a mistake, and the justice aboriginal gave jurors an acquisition that the holes were caused by a criminologist.

June 10, 2025 - The erstwhile aesculapian examiner for Rhode Island testified, followed by Dr. Andrew Rentschler, who is the last defence witness.

June 11, 2025 - Karen Read's defense rested its case aft Rentschler finished testifying that successful his opinion, John O'Keefe was not deed by a vehicle.

June 12, 2025 - The final proceeding earlier closing arguments was held arsenic attorneys and the justice met without jurors present. The defence said it volition not beryllium pursuing a third-party culprit statement against Brian Albert and Brian Higgins, but volition beryllium focusing connected the deficiency of a constabulary probe into Higgins.

June 13, 2025 - Both sides presented drastically different closing arguments about however John O'Keefe died and what relation Karen Read played successful his death. Jury deliberations began a abbreviated clip later.

June 16, 2025 - Jurors had their first afloat time of deliberations, but did not scope a verdict.

June 17, 2025 - On the 2nd afloat time of deliberations, the Karen Read assemblage came backmost with four questions for the judge. One of them sought clarity connected what happens if they hold to not blameworthy connected 2 charges but are hung connected the 3rd charge. Jurors aboriginal were dismissed for the time without a verdict.

Verdict reached successful Karen Read trial

June 18, 2025 - In their 4th time of deliberations, jurors acquitted Read of second-degree murder, manslaughter portion operating nether the power and leaving the country of an mishap resulting successful death. She was convicted of driving nether the power of alcohol. Judge Cannone sentenced Read to 1 twelvemonth probation.

June 18, 2025 - Several cardinal prosecution witnesses who are friends with the O'Keefe household issued a statement, calling the verdict a "devastating miscarriage of justice."

June 19, 2025 - Massachusetts State Police Col. Geoffrey Noble said successful a statement that successful the aftermath of the Karen Read case, the section volition proceed to enactment connected improvements successful oversight and accountability.

June 19, 2025 - District Attorney Michael Morrissey issued his first statement connected the verdict, saying to WBZ-TV only, "The assemblage has spoken."

June 19, 2025 - A juror successful the proceedings speaks out astir their determination to acquit Read of the astir superior charges.

June 23, 2025 - Special authoritative Hank Brennan issues his first statement since the proceedings ended. He was "disappointed" successful the verdict and condemned "witness abuse."

June 24, 2025 - Karen Read's pb attorney, Alan Jackson, responds to Brennan's remarks, accusing the authoritative of ethical violations.

June 29, 2025 - Karen Read and Alan Jackson are reportedly moving connected a film publication and book.

July 7, 2025 - Massachusetts State Police reassign Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik from Norfolk County to an administrative relation successful the South Boston barracks.

July 10, 2025 - Karen Read filed a motion seeking to dismiss the civilian suit filed against her by the O'Keefe family.

July 10, 2025 - Boston police commissioner responds to Officer Kelly Dever's grounds successful Karen Read trial.

July 10, 2025 - Records obtained by I-Team amusement peculiar authoritative Hank Brennan was paid $566,000 for Read's retrial.

August 5, 2025 - Alan Jackson joins Karen Read's ineligible squad for her civilian proceedings connected a wrongful decease suit brought by the O'Keefe family.

August 12, 2025 - Karen Read's lawyers requested for a justice to dismiss the affectional distress claim successful a civilian suit filed by the O'Keefe family.

August 26, 2025 - Fire Massachusetts State Police trooper Michael Proctor is appearing astatine a hearing successful an effort to get his occupation back.