Abby Patkin
Reporter at Boston.com
Reporter @bostondotcom, alum @metrowestdaily, @brooklinetab, @wellesleytown | Vinyl collector and pizza connoisseur | ✉️ [email protected]
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2 days ago |
boston.com | Abby Patkin
As cheers from Karen Read’s supporters echoed through the courtroom last week following news of Read’s acquittal, Vanessa Rizzitano felt queasy. “That made me sick to my stomach,” she told Boston 25 News nearly a week after jurors cleared Read of murder and manslaughter charges in the death of Rizzitano’s cousin, John O’Keefe. “While it’s other people’s celebration, it literally was like the worst day of our lives,” Rizzitano added.
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3 days ago |
boston.com | Abby Patkin
Even before he voted last week to clear Karen Read of murder and manslaughter charges, the jury foreman in Read’s retrial said he didn’t believe she killed her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. “Karen Read is innocent, and she didn’t do this crime,” the foreman said during an appearance on the “TODAY” show Tuesday. “No one could prove that she did this crime.
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4 days ago |
boston.com | Abby Patkin
Soon after Karen Read was cleared of murder and manslaughter charges, the union representing Massachusetts State Police troopers and sergeants took to social media to defend the agency’s investigation into the death of Read’s boyfriend, John O’Keefe. The State Police Association of Massachusetts said its members have faced “numerous attacks and accusations” since the start of Read’s lengthy trial.
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4 days ago |
boston.com | Abby Patkin
Speaking out for the first time following Karen Read’s acquittal on murder and manslaughter charges last week, special prosecutor Hank Brennan expressed his disappointment in the verdict and railed against the “campaign of intimidation and abuse” surrounding the high-profile case.
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1 week ago |
boston.com | Abby Patkin
Comedian and Canton native Bill Burr had something of a diplomatic response to Karen Read’s “not guilty” verdict, telling fans he “thought everyone was lying” in the sensational murder case that rocked his hometown. “Wowwwww,” Burr said as a fan informed him Read had been acquitted on murder and manslaughter charges in the January 2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. The brief encounter was captured in a TikTok video.
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