Karen LeeMassachusetts’s wife accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’KefeHe is sharing new ideas about his case when he enters his second trial.
Reading, 45, is accused of killing O’Kefe in January 2022. Prosecutors claim that he hit him with his SUV and let him die in the snow in Canton. Read previously counted Vanity Fair She believed that she was being framed in a cover -up that involved four law enforcement agencies, including the Massachusetts State Police, who investigated O’Kefe’s murder. (By Vanity FairHomicides that occur outside Boston are investigated by state soldiers in Massachusetts).
According to Read, her experience as accused of murder against what she calls a partial researcher has her reconsidering the 1995 acquittal of OJ Simpson In his wife’s murder Nicole Brown Simpson And friend Ron Goldman. (Simpson died on April 10, 2024 at the age of 76).
“I firmly felt about the Prosecutor’s Office and its guilt and the fact that he spent all this money on this dream lawyers team. Everyone seemed to serpent oil vendors,” said Read, “said Read. Vanity Fair In an interview published on Thursday, April 10. “I do not say that I think OJ was innocent, but I think it was not an investigation completely on board. Now that I am smarter, I would have encouraged that acquittal. You have to hold the police responsible.”
Read declared innocent of second degree murder positions, involuntary homicide while operating under the influence of alcohol and leaves the scene of personal injury and death. His first judgment ended in a null trial due to a jury hanging in July 2024.

OJ Simpson with your lawyer Malcolm Lavergne
Jason Bean-Pool/Getty ImagesReading faces life in prison in a second trial for the same positions, and opening statements are expected to begin next week. Your legal team has grown from David Yannetti, Alan Jacksonand Elizabeth Little To include now Robert Alessi and Victoria Georgeas well as nine law students who act as employees, who have joined their pro bonus.
In March, MICHAEL PROCTORThe main investigator of the State Police in the case was impairedly discharged after the first Read trial when he was forced to read aloud, which admitted that they were inappropriate text messages that he had sent to read friends and co -workers at the beginning of the investigation. The Massachusetts State Police said that the dismissal of Proctor arose from their “derogatory, defamatory, derogatory text messages and/or otherwise inappropriate about a suspect in that investigation to other people.”
Proctor’s family, including his wife Elizabeth and sister Courtneyissued a statement in March, for Boston.comSaying that he had been the subject of “atrociously false statements of Karen Read and his defense team”, adding that Proctor had been “falsely labeled by the alleged murderer, his family, his defense team and a multitude of his followers.”
Reading counted Vanity Fair Of the Declaration of the Family of Proctor, “everything that the statement made was to put its vile behavior in the news cycle. And had to use two women to do it? Can’t speak for itself?”