INFAMOUS: The Death of John O'Keefe & The Trial of Karen Read

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🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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John O’Keefe, a 16-year veteran of the Boston Police Department, died of blunt force trauma and hypothermia on January 29, 2022, after being found on a fellow Boston Police Officer’s front lawn during a blizzard. His girlfriend, Karen Read, is charged with allegedly backing into John with her SUV, and leaving him to die in the cold after a night of drinking. But her defense team poses a different theory – a massive cover-up spanning law enforcement agencies across Massachusetts. Karen’s first case ended in a mistrial on July 1, 2024. Her second trial is set to begin in April 2025.

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0:00.0	Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Brett. All right, you guys, this is a case that captivated the nation last year. Like the kind of media circus you can't ignore. And even if you weren't a crime junkie, you knew about this case and you had an opinion about this case. And I touched on it briefly in my serious XM show, but I never did a proper crime junkie deep die.
0:23.0	Because as we were getting into it, it was going to trial.
0:25.9	And I thought like, okay, things are going to wrap up.
0:28.1	We're going to have a conclusion.
0:29.2	Right.
0:29.8	I have never been so wrong.
0:32.3	The trial of Karen Reed, or the murder of John O'Keefe, was a six-week spectacle that had more twists and turns in
0:40.1	theatrics than most legal dramas on TV. And it all ended with a mistrial. So it's happening again.
0:48.5	Now, last time, I quite literally watched every minute of every day a trial because this is a case where you have to know every detail to talk confidently about what happened.
1:00.1	And this time around, I want the crime junkies to join in as well.
1:04.7	So I'm going to catch you up.
1:06.4	I want to tell you everything we know about the death of John O'Keefe, everything we know about the
1:11.9	prosecution's case against Karen Reed and her defense's rebuttal, so that you can be fully
1:16.2	prepared for the second trial that's starting soon. And I have a way for you to follow along
1:21.8	with us through that second trial. We're going to be doing a trial watch along with my friend
1:27.3	and fellow podcaster Brandy
1:29.1	Churchwell, who has become quite literally an expert on this case. Now, she's not a lawyer. She is a layman
1:34.6	like you and me, like the jury, and she'll be doing live watch-alongs and daily recaps on our new
1:40.9	YouTube page, Crime Junkie Jury. But before we get back to court, I'm going to present to you the two versions of the same story that we heard last time, and you get to decide which one is true.
1:56.6	These are the stories of the death of John O'Keefe.
2:36.7	Thank you. These are the stories of the death of John O'Keefe. Here's what we know for sure about January 28th and 29th, 2022.
2:42.8	On January 28th, 41-year-old Karen Reid met up with her 46-year-old boyfriend of two years,
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