Jonathan Hall

2 weeks ago | whdh.com | Jonathan Hall |Eliza Kruczynski |Stephen Quinn

SCITUATE, MASS. (WHDH) - People up and down the coast of Massachusetts were making sure their property was ready to weather the storm Thursday. Local boaters scrambled to get everything tied down to the docks within various marinas. By mid-afternoon, the tide was coming in and the winds were whipping. “Extra lines on the boat, you know, and just hope for the best,” said Lou Horvath, who has two boats docked in Scituate. “I’ll come down during the storm and check on it.

2 weeks ago | whdh.com | Jonathan Hall

DEDHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - The defense team resumed questioning the credentials of a forensics expert on the witness stand in Karen Read’s murder retrial Tuesday. Shanon Burgess used data from Read’s SUV to analyze the car’s movements in the hours surrounding Boston police officer John O’Keefe’s death. The defense says Burgess does not have the academic background he claimed to have to perform that type of analysis. On Monday, Read’s lawyers picked apart his resume.

2 weeks ago | whdh.com | Victoria Price |Jonathan Hall |Mari Salazar

DEDHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - Karen Read and her defense team arrived at court in Dedham Monday, as her murder retrial entered its fifth week of testimony. Read is accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe by hitting him with her SUV and leaving him to die in a snowbank in January 2022. Her lawyers argue she is being framed in a police coverup. Her first trial last year ended in a mistrial.

3 weeks ago | whdh.com | Jonathan Hall |Mari Salazar

DEDHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - Karen Read entered Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham with her lawyers Friday, rounding out another week of her murder retrial. Read is accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe by hitting him with her SUV and leaving him to die in a snowbank in January 2022. Her lawyers argue she is being framed in a police coverup. Her first trial last year ended in a mistrial.

3 weeks ago | whdh.com | Victoria Price |Jonathan Hall

DEDHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - The medical examiner who performed Boston police officer John O’Keefe’s autopsy took the witness stand Thursday in the Karen Read murder retrial. Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello walked the jury through O’Keefe’s injuries, showing photos and describing a laceration to the back of his head, skull fractures, a cut above his right eye, abrasions on his nose and arm, two black eyes, and a scratch on his right knee.