Boston cop would have 'taken a bullet' for Karen Read's officer boyfriend found dead on his property

The Boston constabulary serviceman who owned the spot wherever John O'Keefe was recovered dormant during a blizzard successful January 2022 said helium would person "taken a bullet" for his erstwhile workfellow successful a televised interrogation conscionable days aft jurors recovered the suspected killer, Karen Read, not guilty.

Brian Albert's sister-in-law, Jennifer McCabe, woke him up aft she, Read and different pistillate recovered O'Keefe unresponsive successful the gait astir 6 a.m. connected Jan. 29, 2022.

"By the clip I came downstairs, the constabulary were already successful my house, John was already gone, [and] determination was cipher to save," Albert told ABC News Friday. "I would've taken a slug for John O'Keefe."

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Outside a celebratory post-verdict dinner, Read was asked if she had immoderate word's for O'Keefe's family. "I fought for John O'Keefe, harder than anyone," she said. "Harder than anyone."

Karen A. Read,  girlfriend of the precocious Boston Police serviceman John OKeefe, was arraigned successful Norfolk Superior Court connected charges of 2nd grade execution successful his decease successful Dedham, MA connected June 10, 2022.  A photograph of the mates unneurotic was presented by the defence to the prosecution.  (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Read's supporters person painted Albert and his household arsenic villains, though helium was not called to the basal successful her 2nd trial, her defence insinuated that O'Keefe's fatal injuries had thing to bash with his dog, Chloe, and perchance a person who was besides astatine the location party.

Police ne'er identified anyone but Read arsenic a suspect, and nary 1 other faced charges successful transportation with O'Keefe's death.

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Read, O'Keefe and a radical of different radical had been invited backmost to Albert's location conscionable aft midnight erstwhile the section bars closed.

Karen Read exits Norfolk County Superior Court successful Dedham, MA, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. Read was recovered to beryllium not blameworthy of the execution of her boyfriend, John O'Keefe. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)

Six hours later, O'Keefe was recovered dormant nether a furniture of snowfall connected the beforehand lawn. Prosecutors alleged that Read deed him with her Lexus SUV and near the scene, but jurors didn't bargain the story.

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After a proceedings that stretched connected for much than 30 days, and 4 days of deliberation, jurors recovered Read not blameworthy of each homicide-related charges. They convicted her lone of drunken driving, for which she volition service a twelvemonth connected probation.

Brian Albert testifies during Karen Read's archetypal proceedings astatine Norfolk County Superior Court, Friday, May 10, 2024, successful Dedham, Mass. That proceedings ended with a deadlocked jury. She was recovered not blameworthy of execution aft her 2nd trial, which ended this week. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)

After the trial, her defence hinted that whoever did O'Keefe has eluded investigators, who were faulted for a sloppy probe and missed protocols astatine trial, successful an audit, and done interior reviews.

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"Somebody is inactive retired there, and it's a shame that this probe was not done successful the due mode truthful that they could person gotten to the truth," David Yannetti, 1 of her defence attorneys, told reporters Thursday.