People across the country will get an inside look at Karen Read’s trial on NBC’s ‘Dateline’ special Friday night.
CANTON, Mass. (WWLP) – People across the country will get an inside look at Karen Read’s trial on NBC’s ‘Dateline’ special Friday night.
Read is facing charges related to the 2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. Read’s retrial is set to begin in January. NBC will air a two-hour episode featuring a sit-down interview with Karen Read after her case was declared a mistrial this past summer. You can watch it on 22News starting at 9 p.m.
The murder trial of Karen Read made national headlines. O’Keefe died after being found unresponsive outside a friend’s home on a snowy morning. Prosecutors said Read hit O’Keefe with her car and left him to die in the cold while her defense team says Read is being framed for the murder by the police.
On Friday’s “The Night of the Nor’easter” episode, ‘Dateline’ talks with the woman at the center of it all, Karen Read, those closest to the case, including family and friends of John O’Keefe.
Here is a preview of Dateline’s report:
John O’ Keefe extended family: You’re just sitting there thinking, is this real life?
Andrea Canning: A monster storm had rolled into Canton, Massachusetts and Karen Read’s boyfriend, Officer John O’Keefe was dead. His body was discovered lying in front of another officer’s house.
Karen Read: And I didn’t know what the hell happened. How did the night end up like this?
She was charged with John’s death. Was she to blame?
Karen Read: I felt like I was living in a nightmare
John O’ Keefe extended family: It was somehow lost that the reason we were there was because Johnny was killed.
As all eyes focused on the spectacle outside a Massachusetts courthouse.
Alan Jackson, Defense Attorney: This was – truly this was next level
And the bitter battle within
John O’ Keefe extended family: If you are charged with murder, you’re going to do everything you can
Andrea: The stakes are as high as they get for Karen Read
John O’ Keefe extended family: She has put my family through hell to save herself. Take accountability and do the right thing.
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