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bostonglobe.com | Travis Andersen
Her lawyers say she was framed and that O’Keefe entered the house, owned at the time by a fellow Boston police officer, where he was fatally beaten and possibly mauled by a German Shepherd before his body was planted on the front lawn. Read’s first trial ended in a hung jury in July and she remains free on bail. Witness Brian Higgins answers a question from defense attorney Alan Jackson in 2024.
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bostonglobe.com | Travis Andersen
A Norfolk County grand jury on Tuesday indicted Aidan Kearney, the controversial blogger known as “Turtleboy,” on his two lastest charges of intimidating witnesses in the Karen Read case, records show. Kearney was indicted on two counts of witness intimidation for allegedly targeting Chris Albert, a Canton business owner and selectman, and his son Colin Albert in early March, according to legal filings. A Superior Court arraignment date hasn’t been set.
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bostonglobe.com | Travis Andersen
Proceedings in the retrial of Karen Read are being suspended Tuesday due to “unavoidable circumstances,” court officials said. “Please be advised that the trial in Commonwealth v. Karen Read is not taking place today due to unavoidable circumstances,” the Trial Court said in a statement. The statement didn’t elaborate. Read, 45, has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence, and leaving the scene of personal injury and death.
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1 week ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Travis Andersen
A Norfolk Superior Court judge on Monday declined to revoke the bail of Aidan Kearney, the blogger known as “Turtleboy” who’s charged with harassing witnesses in the Karen Read case, for saying in a recent YouTube video that he hoped a State Police investigator’s family died in a fire and that his quest for “revenge” is sanctioned by Jesus Christ. Judge Michael P. Doolin issued a brief ruling Monday stating he would not jail Kearney over the video, concluding it was not criminal.
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bostonglobe.com | Travis Andersen |Nick Stoico
Witness Jen McCabe answers questions from defense attorney Alan Jackson during Karen Read's trial at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham on Friday, May 2.Mark Jarret Chavous/Associated PressJennifer McCabe took the witness stand for a third day in Karen Read’s murder trial in Norfolk Superior Court on Friday, where she continued to spar with defense attorney Alan Jackson over details of the discovery of John O’Keefe’s body in front of her sister’s Canton home.
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bostonglobe.com | Travis Andersen
Prosecutors say Read returned to the Fairview Road home with two other women just after 6 a.m. and found O’Keefe’s snow-covered body on the lawn, and that she repeatedly said “I hit him” in the presence of emergency responders. The defense maintains that Read wondered aloud, “did I hit him?” or “could I have hit him?” and that witnesses who testified to hearing her dramatic confession have changed their stories over time or been unduly influenced by investigators.
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1 week ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Travis Andersen
Prosecutors want a judge to revoke the bail of Aidan Kearney, the blogger known as “Turtleboy,” for allegedly threatening an investigator in the Karen Read case in a recent YouTube video, records show. In the clip, prosecutors wrote, Kearney says in part that Tully can “go get [expletive]. Him and his stupid wife and his stupid family. I hope they all [expletive] die in a fire. ... I go to church every Sunday, and that’s what Jesus talks to me, and that’s what he says. Revenge.
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bostonglobe.com | Travis Andersen
The murder trial of Karen Read, who is charged in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, is continuing on Tuesday. On Monday, a digital forensic specialist testified that O’Keefe’s phone stopped moving soon after he was dropped off at the Canton home where his body was found outside near the road, and the Supreme Court rejected Read’s request to step into the trial. Here’s how Monday unfolded. Follow live updates. And watch it live.
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2 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Travis Andersen
Karen Read’s second murder trial in the death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, is heading into its second week. On Monday, witnesses will testify for half the day. Then, the jury will be sent home and Judge Beverly Cannone will hold a hearing on defense expert witnesses from the company ARCCA, who found that O’Keefe’s injuries weren’t consistent with being hit by a vehicle. By Travis Andersen, Globe StaffTestimony resumes Monday in Read’s trial in Norfolk Superior Court.
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bostonglobe.com | Travis Andersen
Karen Read left Norfolk County Superior Court for a lunch break on the first day of opening statements in her retrial.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe StaffRead’s first trial ended in a hung jury and she remains free on bail. Prosecutors say her relationship with O’Keefe was strained at the time of his death, and the tense, at times angry text messages introduced Thursday were meant to bolster that assertion. Below is a transcript of the texts, which began at 9:40 a.m. on Jan. 28.
