Karen Read 'didn't do this crime,' says jury foreman after acquitting her of murder charges: report

The assemblage foreman successful Karen Read's retrial connected execution charges is the latest to unfastened up and blasted constabulary missteps for the outcome, declaring the vindicated suspect not conscionable not blameworthy beyond a tenable doubt, but wholly "innocent" successful a caller televised interview.

"Karen Read is innocent, and she didn't bash this crime," Juror No. 1 told "Today" connected Tuesday morning. "No 1 could beryllium that she did this crime, truthful I looked astatine her from Day 1 arsenic an guiltless pistillate that needed to beryllium proven guilty, and I don't deliberation immoderate of that was shown successful this process."

Jurors rejected each homicide-related charges past week, convicting her lone of drunken driving aft she spent the nighttime drinking cocktails and driving astir Canton, Massachusetts, during a blizzard.

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Karen Read gestures to her supporters portion departing Norfolk Superior Court during assemblage deliberations astatine her proceedings connected Tuesday, June 17, 2025 successful Dedham, Massachusetts. (Charles Krupa/AP Photo)

Prosecutors alleged that she backed her 2021 Lexus LX 570 SUV into her then-boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, and past near him to dice connected the crushed successful the acold with a fractured skull.

The authorities presented breached taillight fragments collected from the transgression scene, which matched smaller pieces recovered from O'Keefe's apparel and a chunk missing from Read's Lexus.

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Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe poses for his authoritative portrait. (Boston Police Department)

However, police missteps doomed the case, and the assemblage recovered the state's grounds unconvincing. Defense experts dismissed claims from their counterparts moving for the prosecution, who had suggested that the conveyance struck O'Keefe with a glancing blow, sending him tumbling backward to deed his caput connected the ground.

Despite grounds showing his telephone stopped moving astatine the clip Read deed the state successful reverse, jurors saw nary nexus betwixt achromatic container information from the SUV and the victim's last recorded movement.

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An grounds photograph presented by the prosecution shows Karen Read’s Lexus SUV missing a taillight. (Pool)

"People had questions, and we utilized the grounds to reply their questions, and we didn't effort to spell down these rabbit holes wherever we're conscionable getting mislaid successful each these different things that were thrown astatine america successful tribunal oregon whatever," the foreman, who did not uncover his name, told the interviewers. "We conscionable had to fastener down and fig it retired done the evidence."

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The pb investigator was fired aft sending explicit substance messages astir Read and the advancement of the probe to a radical of friends – radical who were unauthorized to person confidential details astir the case.

O'Keefe, 46, was a Boston constabulary serviceman who had taken successful his orphaned niece and nephew aft their parents died wrong months of 1 another.

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O'Keefe's niece testified astatine proceedings that helium had a toxic narration with Read and indicated helium wanted to telephone it disconnected successful the weeks earlier his death.

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In an earlier interrogation with the Boston Herald, the foreman said helium had ties to different high-profile section case. He knew the Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, arsenic good arsenic an 8-year-old unfortunate of their panic attack, Martin Richard.