Karen Read: The Verdict

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Speaker 3 I said he's right

Speaker 4 there.

Speaker 4 His eyes were shut and he had spots of blood in different areas on his face.

Speaker 6 She's accused of killing her boyfriend, a Boston police officer.

Speaker 7 Enough's enough. We've been quiet for too long.

Speaker 9 Now, Justin, a verdict for Karen Reed.

Speaker 10 The defendant of the power guilty or not guilty?

Speaker 9 Not guilty.

Speaker 9 This is the case the whole country couldn't stop watching. I hit him.
I hit him.

Speaker 4 I hit him. I said it with a question mark.

Speaker 11 It's like that my cousin Vinny moment. I shot the clerk versus I shot the clerk.

Speaker 13 You'll see that this case carries him. Cancer, his name is Michael Proctor.

Speaker 9 And all new. And you're the first person from inside the investigation to speak out.

Speaker 9 The exclusive interview with the controversial trooper in the bullseye.

Speaker 7 That was

Speaker 14 tough.

Speaker 9 I'm sorry. One of the texts that you sent about Karen Reed is that you said hopefully she kills herself, telling his version the first time on camera.

Speaker 7 He's like, wait, people need to know what has been going on. They need to know the truth.

Speaker 4 It just feels like a kind of purgatory.

Speaker 9 Now, her wait is over.

Speaker 16 Mr. Jerry, have you agreed upon a murder?

Speaker 16 Is the defendant at the bar guilty or not guilty? Not guilty.

Speaker 16 002. What say you is the defendant at the bar not guilty or guilty?

Speaker 8 Not guilty.

Speaker 16 Operating under the influence of liquor by operating a motivated with a blood alcohol level of 0.08 or greater. So say you all?

Speaker 16 Leaving the scene after action, assaulting intestines. Defendant not guilty or guilty.

Speaker 9 And a stunning conclusion to the Karen Reed murder retrial, one of the most divisive cases in Massachusetts history.

Speaker 17 Is no one has fought harder for justice for John O'Keefe than I have. Than I have and my team.

Speaker 11 A story unlike one I've ever seen that has many layers to it.

Speaker 3 You've got an alleged conspiracy between an entire group of people. You've got forensic evidence.
You've got intoxication.

Speaker 3 You have a hero police officer, John O'Keefe, who's raising two kids after his sister and her husband died. You have all the elements here for great public interest.

Speaker 9 Prosecution, they say Karen Reed killed John O'Keefe. Big drunk.

Speaker 9 She hit him. She left him to die.
It's that simple.

Speaker 9 The defense, they say Karen Reed is innocent.

Speaker 13 There was no collision. She's the victim of a botched, biased, and corrupted investigation that was never about the truth, folks.

Speaker 9 Every single detail dissected.

Speaker 9 And at the center of it all, John O'Keefe. Two trials, the first ending in a mistrial.

Speaker 4 Come at me.

Speaker 9 Tonight, you've heard about it for years, but now the whole story: the facts, the theories, and the verdict.

Speaker 9 It all begins in the middle of a record-breaking Nor'easter.

Speaker 9 Officer John O'Keefe is found dead outside of a home in Canton during the blizzard.

Speaker 19 His body discovered outside the Canton home of a fellow officer.

Speaker 6 O'Keeffe's girlfriend Karen Reed is now facing charges with his death.

Speaker 9 What happened in the Boston suburb of Canton, Massachusetts that led to the death of John O'Keefe during that epic blizzard in January of 2022.

Speaker 9 Throughout two trials now, the country has debated the charges against Karen Reed.

Speaker 9 And when we interviewed her before her first trial, she proclaimed her innocence. Did you kill John O'Keefe?

Speaker 5 I did not kill John O'Keefe. I've never harmed a hair on John O'Keefe's head.

Speaker 20 The Commonwealth...

Speaker 9 says that you had nine drinks that night. You claim it's four and change.
I mean, is it possible that you had hit him with the back of your car and just didn't realize it?

Speaker 21 No.

Speaker 9 Would you say that you were angry with John that night?

Speaker 14 Yes.

Speaker 9 Could you have been angry enough and slightly drunk because he had annoyed you with it in a fit of rage, you just backed up and

Speaker 4 tried to tap him.

Speaker 9 I would never. Not to try to kill him, but try to.

Speaker 4 To tap him with my 6,000-pound full-size SUV, to hit John's body with my car.

Speaker 12 No.

Speaker 9 Karen Reed told me she loved John O'Keefe.

Speaker 9 Now she claims she's also a victim here, claiming that she is framed in a cover-up pitted against the family and friends who are demanding justice for the life they say was stolen from John O'Keefe, or as everybody knew him, Johnny.

Speaker 22 We grew up in Braintree, which is middle-class, a Boston suburb, heavy Irish, heavy Italian, and Johnny was both.

Speaker 9 John is is the middle child of three. His sister Kristen is just 22 months older than he is, and his brother Paul is several years younger.

Speaker 22 Johnny and I grew up on the same street. We were in Little League together, elementary school all the way through high school.
We went to proms and homecoming together, and he was in my wedding party.

Speaker 22 Johnny was a huge fan of the Red Sox.

Speaker 25 Fenway was a constant destination for us throughout our entire life.

Speaker 9 Opening day was a religious day for him.

Speaker 22 He went every year, every year.

Speaker 25 It's one of his favorite days.

Speaker 27 I dated Johnny in the early 2000s, then stayed friends for over 20 years.

Speaker 27 I remember when I first met him and I asked him what he did for a living and he was in the police academy.

Speaker 9 I kind of made a joke, like, oh no, police officer.

Speaker 27 And he said, no, no, like,

Speaker 28 I'm the good kind.

Speaker 27 I want to be a cop because my grandfather was a cop.

Speaker 22 Johnny was 29 when he got on the Boston Police Department.

Speaker 9 One of John's other most cherished roles was becoming an uncle.

Speaker 22 He was incredibly excited about becoming an uncle. It was a celebration, essentially.
They were a large part of who he was.

Speaker 9 But in 2013, the O'Keeffe family gets some devastating news when John's older sister, Kristen, is diagnosed with cancer.

Speaker 25 Johnny and Kristen were very, very close.

Speaker 25 That changed Johnny.

Speaker 29 He was unbelievable making sure that the kids were taken care of.

Speaker 22 It was just a little over five months from the time that it was diagnosed till Kristen passed.

Speaker 27 That was a huge loss.

Speaker 19 When she passed, he lost a part of himself.

Speaker 22 And almost unbelievably, Steve passed away almost exactly two months after Kristen did.

Speaker 9 In a very short amount of time, John loses his sister, his brother-in-law. He takes in their kids.
How was he able to handle all of this?

Speaker 30 He had a big support system.

Speaker 9 And emotionally, how did he do it?

Speaker 30 I feel like, I guess he just knew he had to.

Speaker 25 Johnny's niece was six and Johnny's nephew was three.

Speaker 25 It wasn't even a question. Johnny was going to step in and raise those kids.

Speaker 9 Karen Reed's story begins 35 miles south of Boston in the town of Mansfield. Karen, before all of this happened, tell me what life was like for you.

Speaker 14 Routine.

Speaker 4 I took the morning train literally and just had a predictable, easy,

Speaker 4 fortunate life.

Speaker 9 What did you do for a living?

Speaker 4 I was in finance and asset management, what I always wanted to do. And then at night I taught college juniors, introduction to capital markets, investing.

Speaker 9 How did you meet John O'Keefe?

Speaker 21 I met John in 2004, February, at his sister's 30th birthday party.

Speaker 9 And so what drew you to him? I mean, what did you like about him?

Speaker 4 I thought he was handsome and he was sweet. And I mean, I was 24, so that's...

Speaker 21 That was about the criteria at the time.

Speaker 4 It just came and went and didn't speak to him again.

Speaker 21 Not intentionally, it just wasn't serious.

Speaker 9 By 2020, more than 15 years later, Karen is living in the Boston area and John is now a single dad, a cop raising two kids in the middle of a pandemic. And then he messaged Karen on Facebook.

Speaker 4 When I saw his picture, it was with several young children and he told me, yeah, I have the kids now. I thought that was amazing.
And he said they're nine and twelve.

Speaker 9 How serious did things get that second round?

Speaker 21 Pretty serious, very fast.

Speaker 9 Was there talk of marriage?

Speaker 4 No,

Speaker 4 no.

Speaker 9 Did you want that?

Speaker 4 I would have

Speaker 4 considered it strongly for John, but it's not ever been something that I've aspired to.

Speaker 15 We are expecting as much as 18 to 24 inches of snow and 40 to 50 mile per hour winds.

Speaker 11 A snow emergency has been declared.

Speaker 10 City officials say this would be a blockbuster event.

Speaker 9 That morning, did you and John have an argument?

Speaker 4 Yep, we had an argument.

Speaker 9 Karen says that morning John's niece was running late for school and Karen offered to stop at Duncan, something that she said John didn't really approve of.

Speaker 4 I was miffed because it just was in the essence of saving time. I would say of the arguments that we've had, it felt like one of the more unfair arguments.
So I got my backup more than I normally did.

Speaker 9 But by that evening, the two make plans to meet up and John's nephews at a sleepover. His teenage niece is spending the night at home.

Speaker 11 Early in the evening, John O'Keefe goes out with a buddy down to C.F. McCarthy's.

Speaker 4 I ended up leaving my house to join John and Canton at 8:30.

Speaker 9 How did the night go?

Speaker 4 It was fine. I walked in, he was with three other fellas.
I got there a little after nine, and he gave me a hug.

Speaker 9 Footage from security cameras show the night appears to be like any normal Friday night.

Speaker 9 A mere 12 hours later, John O'Keefe will be dead, Karen accused of his murder, and this man will be at the center of the investigation and the controversy speaking out for the first time.

Speaker 7 People need to know what has been going on. They need to know the truth.
They're only hearing one side there.

Speaker 9 At Karen Reed's retrial, the bulk of the trial is piecing together the final hours of John O'Keefe's life, and witnesses testify about the calm before the storm. What was the mood in the group?

Speaker 31 Cheerful,

Speaker 31 good mood. Everybody was just out having a drink.
We all knew the storm was coming tomorrow, and

Speaker 31 you know, just a typical average night.

Speaker 13 You saw John put his arm around Karen?

Speaker 33 Correct.

Speaker 2 John went over to Karen and he gave her a kiss on the forehead. I was like, wow, that's the sweetest thing I've ever seen.

Speaker 9 So, on that pre-blizzard night, their morning spat now seemingly behind them, Karen and John are enjoying some drinks with friends. And after having a few at C.F.

Speaker 9 McCarthy's, they join another group at the waterfall bar just down the street.

Speaker 21 There was a table of people right away.

Speaker 4 We said hi to a bunch of people. We stayed there for about 90 minutes.

Speaker 9 At the table are members of a couple of families who have deep ties in the town, the Alberts and the McCabes. We've got Chris Albert, who used to live down the street from John.

Speaker 9 Also at the table is Brian Albert, and that's Chris's brother, who, like John, is a Boston police officer.

Speaker 9 Now also there is Brian's wife, Nicole, and her sister, Jennifer McCabe, who John had known for years. And there is Brian Higgins, an ATF agent who was also friends with the Alberts.

Speaker 11 There's video so you can kind of see what's happening. And it looks like a typical night.
People are snuggling up around a bar, they're drinking, they're goofing around a little bit.

Speaker 11 Brian Albert, whose home is about five minutes away, invites everyone over for an after-party.

Speaker 11 Now there's already a party with some young adults taking place at his house because it's Brian Jr.'s birthday, so they all gather up and head out.

Speaker 3 Shortly after midnight, security cameras showed John walk out of the waterfall bar and into the snowy night. John has a cocktail glass in his hand.

Speaker 3 Seconds later, the two get into Karen's black SUV and they drive away.

Speaker 9 How many drinks had you had?

Speaker 4 I had had

Speaker 4 probably

Speaker 4 about

Speaker 4 four and not four that I completed either. I didn't drink maybe more than a few sips at the waterfall.

Speaker 3 The Commonwealth, however, would later claim that over the course of the night, Karen had nine drinks before she set off in her SUV.

Speaker 9 You had four drinks, they say nine drinks. So how drunk were you?

Speaker 23 I had...

Speaker 5 felt like I had alcohol.

Speaker 4 I felt that I had a buzz, but I did not feel it was unsafe for me to to be operating my vehicle.

Speaker 9 What happens next is at the crux of this case against Karen Reed.

Speaker 9 She says they headed to the Alberts home, getting slightly lost along the way, and Jennifer McCabe gets on the phone and gives John directions.

Speaker 9 When they arrive, Karen says John said he'd go in and check to make sure that the others had actually come over.

Speaker 4 I pull at the foot of the driveway. It's snowing.
John has no coat on. It's windy.
So I drop him off. He goes up the driveway and approaches the side door.

Speaker 4 And as I see him approach the door, I look down at my phone and I just start browsing through, you know,

Speaker 4 missed text messages and a couple emails. And I probably waited about a full minute.
And I

Speaker 4 look back at the door. So after about three minutes, I said,

Speaker 9 me, John. She says she was having stomach issues and was annoyed that John didn't check back in with her.
So she decides just to go back to John's house.

Speaker 9 Now, phone records indicate that over the next five and a half hours, Karen calls or texts John 52 times, leaving eight voicemails.

Speaker 4 Now it's approaching 5 a.m. I called a few of his buddies, their wives.
I knew something was wrong.

Speaker 9 One of Karen's first calls is to Jennifer McCabe. Now, she's part of the group that had gone on to Brian Albert's house on Fairview Road.

Speaker 5 I said, Jen, John didn't come home.

Speaker 4 So I said, well, then I don't know where he is. And I said, I'm going to go back to the bars.
Like, maybe they let people back in after I was.

Speaker 9 Her next call is to John's friend, Carrie Roberts, who lives nearby. Now, Carrie wasn't at that late night gathering, but maybe she's heard from John.
She hasn't.

Speaker 11 Kerry Roberts makes a call to the local hospital, to the police department, trying to see if anything happened to John that night.

Speaker 34 I'm calling because my friend's boyfriend did not come home last night. We were at Waterfall.
She doesn't know where he is.

Speaker 34 You didn't pick anybody up by the name of John O'Keefe, did you?

Speaker 35 He has not been admitted to a hospital, and he has not been involved in any accidents.

Speaker 3 Not a single person says they've seen John since he left the bar.

Speaker 9 So you're driving around. Do you expect to see him like lying on the street, drunk?

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 14 Or passed out?

Speaker 4 I was worried he might have gotten hit by a plow. That was my first thought.
It's the only explanation I could think of for why John just disappeared into thin air.

Speaker 36 This is 90.9 90.9 WBUR. It is 24 degrees in Boston, and there will be near whiteout conditions at times.

Speaker 4 After about 20 minutes of driving around, I go to get Jen.

Speaker 9 She gets to Jennifer McCabe's. Carrie Roberts shows up and they decide together, let's go back to John's.

Speaker 3 You can see this moment captured on one of John's home security cameras.

Speaker 9 Now the women decide to go back to Fairview Road, the house where John and Karen headed after the barns.

Speaker 5 I said he's right

Speaker 4 there.

Speaker 4 I jumped out the passenger side and I fell into the street. I've described to many people.
It looked like a the body looked like a buffalo on a prairie. It just looked like a heap

Speaker 4 and it looked wrong. It looked out of place.
I knew it was him right away.

Speaker 4 And yes, his eyes were shut and he had spots of blood in different areas on his face and he was still.

Speaker 4 Not stiff, but

Speaker 4 still.

Speaker 8 I know.

Speaker 8 Where are the blankets?

Speaker 11 I don't see blankets carried on us.

Speaker 8 911, return.

Speaker 31 His amien tapped out in the snow.

Speaker 35 Officers arrive to three females on the scene, and John is laying on his back. He's got injuries to his face.
He had two black eyes.

Speaker 29 He's cold to the touch. He's not dressed in appropriate clothing for the temperature.
He's wearing a long-sleeve t-shirt and he's actually missing one of his shoes.

Speaker 35 By all accounts, Karen is inconsolable. She's yelling, she's screaming, she's crying.

Speaker 4 I had called my father. He didn't answer, and I texted him.
John is dead. I didn't know for sure that John was dead, but I'm trying to elicit a response, and I thought John could be dead.

Speaker 4 He called me back, and I was distraught. And I said, I don't want to live.
I mean, I wasn't,

Speaker 4 I didn't have any ideation of harming myself. I just, I've never dealt with grief of this magnitude and I just felt out of my skin.
So my father called the police.

Speaker 4 They put me in a psychiatric hold. They took my phone, they took my clothes, they wouldn't let me speak to anyone.

Speaker 4 And then sometime later, about mid-morning, I saw John's parents and brother pass in the ER and all go into the door, two doors down.

Speaker 9 But despite medical personnel working on on John, his injuries and the exposure to the cold are just too much. He is pronounced dead.
And police already suspect that this was no accident.

Speaker 9 Based on the investigation, what does the evidence tell you happened on January 29th to John O'Keefe?

Speaker 9 At Karen Reed's retrial, both the defense and the prosecution say her taillight tells a story.

Speaker 38 The right rear taillight of the Lexus SUV is missing the red lens cover and it is damaged.

Speaker 31 The taillight was missing pieces.

Speaker 39 I noted in a report that there was damage to the taillight.

Speaker 9 But there are conflicting accounts about exactly when and where Karen's taillight was broken and what that could mean for the case.

Speaker 21 I was released from the hospital at noon.

Speaker 4 My father and my brother and sister-in-law came to pick me up.

Speaker 9 They all head back to John's house and that's when Karen says that she stops to show her dad a cracked taillight on her SUV that she said she noticed that morning.

Speaker 4 So we go into the house. John's nephew was not home from his sleep over yet, but John's parents, Paul, his brother, and his niece were there.

Speaker 4 And then when John's nephew came home, I just wanted to see him and squeeze him and hug him.

Speaker 9 Karen recalls that John's mother seemed to keep her distance.

Speaker 4 I could sense from her

Speaker 4 that she was looking at me very

Speaker 4 warily, so I was presuming she saw my cracked taillight and was thinking, did you hit my son? It was quite uncomfortable.

Speaker 5 I said, Dad, I think I need to leave.

Speaker 4 I said, I think John's mother thinks I did something to John.

Speaker 5 When we were driving home, I said to my father, I got to get an attorney.

Speaker 3 Getting a lawyer under those circumstances really is the right thing to do.

Speaker 9 Meanwhile, an investigation is underway. The Canton Police Department is now processing the scene.

Speaker 11 There's literally a blizzard hitting Canton, Massachusetts on top of this crime scene.

Speaker 35 It's snowing, and it's windy, and it's cold. So the evidence is changing.
It's definitely a race against the clock.

Speaker 11 They bring out a leaf blower, and they're trying to blow the snow to uncover whatever evidence might be beneath the snowfall.

Speaker 3 According to police reports, what investigators initially preserve at the scene are six samples of what appears to be blood and a broken cocktail glass.

Speaker 3 Remember, according to the security footage, when John O'Keefe walks out of the waterfall bar, he's got a cocktail glass in his hand.

Speaker 9 Now, the Massachusetts State Police come in.

Speaker 9 In this case, the state police completely take over the case because the Canton Police Department doesn't want even the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Speaker 9 The lead investigator will be Trooper Michael Proctor, whose misconduct will become part of the firestorm at the very center of this trial.

Speaker 9 This is the very first time that Proctor is speaking publicly in an interview about this case.

Speaker 9 He tells me about those moments when he and his colleague Sergeant Yuri Buchanick first head to the Canton Police Department.

Speaker 9 Does it change the nature of the investigation when you know that the deceased is a cop?

Speaker 38 No,

Speaker 7 nor should it.

Speaker 38 There's a little more emotion involved.

Speaker 9 That afternoon, Proctor and Buchanick interview Brian Albert, who told them John never came inside his house.

Speaker 9 And Proctor interviews Jennifer McCabe, who told him she had been on the phone trying to navigate John to the house, but she also says he never came in.

Speaker 9 Proctor also says Jen McCabe told him that when Karen found John's body, she said, could I have hit him?

Speaker 9 Proctor and Buchanick head to the hospital now to see John's body. Proctor says at the hospital, they realized O'Keefe had been found wearing only one shoe.

Speaker 7 And the reason that became important, or was important at the time, during my training and experience, you know, I've been to pedestrian strikes where both shoes are right at the point of impact.

Speaker 9 So the body gets hit, but the shoes get left at the point of impact.

Speaker 7 I've seen them where people get ripped completely out of their clothing and their clothes are at the point of impact.

Speaker 9 Trooper Proctor and Sergeant Buchanick now proceed to interview Karen at her parents' home. Her Lexus SUV is parked in the driveway and they notice damage to the right rear taillight.

Speaker 9 In their official police report, they describe it as shattered.

Speaker 7 It's a large housing unit, so

Speaker 7 a significant chunk is missing from that taillight.

Speaker 5 When the troopers came to my house, now I know I haven't done anything, but they said if we're just trying to help find out what happened to John.

Speaker 9 What did she tell you happened between her and John O'Keefe that night?

Speaker 7 That she went

Speaker 7 to see if McCarthy's, where she met John and some of his friends, and then went over the waterfall and

Speaker 7 met a group there,

Speaker 7 and that they were,

Speaker 38 it was Jen.

Speaker 7 McCabe invited them back to Favier Road.

Speaker 3 Karen tells officers that she had what she referred to as stomach issues and said after she dropped John off, she decided to call it a night and go home.

Speaker 35 After the detectives interview Karen, they seize her car and they tow it. They then process the vehicle for evidence.

Speaker 9 That night, state police investigators report finding pieces of red plastic taillight and a clear piece of plastic at the scene.

Speaker 9 Pieces that they say appear to match the missing pieces from Karen Reed's SUV. They also recover that missing shoe.

Speaker 9 Based on the investigation, what does the evidence tell you happened on January 29th to John O'Keefe?

Speaker 7 It would be later in the day that collectively, as we all met as a unit,

Speaker 38 that

Speaker 7 he had the one shoe found at the scene, taillight pieces at the scene, the one shoe

Speaker 7 at the hospital, her statements, did I hit him? Could I have hit him? We knew, we were very confident, we knew that what had transpired which was Karen Reed backed her Alex's vehicle into John O'Keefe

Speaker 4 it was about 7 p.m.

Speaker 9 I was talking to my best friend on the phone and I said there's a lot of cops circling and I said I think I'm gonna get arrested what was that moment like when you felt the metal handcuffs go on you and they put you into a squad car.

Speaker 15 It's scary. You're short of breath.

Speaker 4 Your ankles are shackled and your arms are behind you and you just try to concentrate on your breathing.

Speaker 14 It's frightening.

Speaker 5 It's frightening.

Speaker 3 Karen Reed's charges and what she was arraigned on were manslaughter, negligent homicide, and leaving the scene of an accident involving injury.

Speaker 3 According to prosecutors, Karen's blood alcohol content was between a 0.07 and a 0.08 when she was tested at the hospital at 9.08 a.m. after being transported from the scene.

Speaker 3 That's about nine hours after they left the bar. If you are a 0.08 or above, you are under the influence for the purpose of driving a motor vehicle.

Speaker 9 What did you plead?

Speaker 5 Not guilty.

Speaker 9 47 bail in the amount of $50,000 cashed to figure out.

Speaker 3 Karen is out on bail, but within months, Karen is also charged with second-degree murder. The line between a gross vehicular manslaughter and second-degree murder is very, very thin.

Speaker 3 If you exhibit a disregard of the safety and the life of another person and they die as a result, then you've got a second-degree murder.

Speaker 9 Next, Karen Reed's defense takes this dramatic turn.

Speaker 9 They're bringing in a top legal gun, and the defense is about to introduce a very different theory than what the prosecution says happened that night.

Speaker 13 John O'Keefe was murdered, no question. He died at the hands of another person.
It just wasn't Karen Reed.

Speaker 25 The lake was large, very large.

Speaker 22 Everybody wanted to be there in that moment.

Speaker 14 Long day.

Speaker 32 Pretty unbelievable day.

Speaker 27 Countless police officers in a line of two

Speaker 27 came down the aisle. We all just paused.

Speaker 27 I could hear a pin drop.

Speaker 25 And the funeral of the next day was, I that was rough too.

Speaker 22 A number of us were asked to be pall-bearers,

Speaker 22 and you could hear Amazing Grace on the bagpipe.

Speaker 22 And they said they were going to give us a notification when the hearse arrived. And

Speaker 22 the moment that will never leave my brain is when we opened up the doors to that church.

Speaker 9 There were 50 bagpipers.

Speaker 22 There were rows and rows and rows of police officers.

Speaker 22 It was like nothing I've ever ever seen before.

Speaker 9 Strikingly absent from John's funeral is Karen Reed, now arrested for his death.

Speaker 9 One of the big first twists in this case begins when Karen adds a heavy hitter to her defense team.

Speaker 11 Alan Jackson, who we got to know at Court TV, for years we talked about Alan Jackson as being one of the sharpest prosecutors we'd ever seen.

Speaker 9 I sat down with Alan Jackson before Karen's first trial and he told me how he got involved in the case.

Speaker 13 I received an email from Karen Reed. The subject line was something along the lines of murder of a Boston police officer.
Karen had supplemented the email with some autopsy photos.

Speaker 13 I was in the process of perusing those and I said,

Speaker 9 this guy didn't get hit by a car.

Speaker 9 At a pretrial hearing, the defense puts those autopsy photos front and center.

Speaker 13 When John O'Keefe was found, he had this set of wounds on his right arm. I would ask the common sense question, does this look like a road rash?

Speaker 13 Or does it look more like claw marks and bite marks from an animal?

Speaker 9 Karen's defense team is laying out a stunning new theory of what they say happened.

Speaker 9 They're now alleging that after Karen Reed dropped John off at that fellow officer, Brian Albert's home, he entered the home and somehow became involved in a fight.

Speaker 13 We know that he was beaten. We've got evidence that John O'Keefe was beaten, that he lay there unconscious.

Speaker 9 And during that alleged fight, they argue that the Albert's dog, a German shepherd, may also have attacked John, contributing to the injuries.

Speaker 9 Then the defense argues John was eventually dumped outside in the snow and left to die.

Speaker 3 Every single person present that night, including Brian and Nicole Albert and Jennifer McCabe, say adamantly O'Keefe never came inside, no one played any part in his death, and there was never any kind of a cover-up that the defense is alleging.

Speaker 3 They all deny it vehemently.

Speaker 9 Also, one of the defense's central claims now appears in a motion that they filed about the timing of a Google search.

Speaker 9 Now, Karen's defense team claims that this will unequivocally exonerate Karen Reed. It's a Google search made on Jennifer McCabe's cell phone.

Speaker 9 Now, remember, Jennifer McCabe was at that gathering in the Alberts home on Fairview Road and was then with Karen the following morning when Karen found John's body in the snow.

Speaker 11 The defense and Karen Reed and her family believes at 2.27 a.m., Jennifer McCabe is searching how long to die in the cold. She misspells how, it's H-O-S, but how long to die in the cold.

Speaker 13 Why would she Google search that if she didn't know that something was going on with John laying in that snow, in that front yard.

Speaker 9 Jennifer McCabe says that she made that search after 6 a.m. and that was at the request of Karen Reed after they discovered John's body, which the prosecution also maintains.

Speaker 11 This Google search is what really brought a lot of people into this case.

Speaker 9 I mean, there are dozens and dozens of people here. You can notice all the placards around.
They are protesting in favor of Karen Reed.

Speaker 8 Free Karen Reed!

Speaker 9 But it's not just John O'Keefe's friends and acquaintances inside that house that night that the defense is accusing of participating in this cover-up.

Speaker 9 They also set their sights on Massachusetts state police trooper Michael Proctor, the lead investigator in the case.

Speaker 9 The defense claims that Proctor, a lifelong resident of Canton, is close with the families inside that house that night, the Alberts and the McCabes, and therefore he's biased and prejudiced in their favor.

Speaker 9 These are claims the state completely rejects.

Speaker 9 Had you ever heard of Brian and Nicole Albert? Did that ring a bell?

Speaker 7 So I heard of Brian and Albert. Never met him until I interviewed him.

Speaker 9 Now, Proctor tells me he did know Brian Albert's brother, Chris, and wife Julie, who'd been at the Waterfall Bar. But you knew Julie and Chris Albert?

Speaker 7 Yes, through a distant relationship with my sister.

Speaker 9 Did you know Jen McCabe?

Speaker 14 No. The McCabes? No.
No.

Speaker 7 Never met the McCabes before prior to this investigation.

Speaker 9 Did you ever think at any point that you should recuse yourself from this case?

Speaker 7 No, absolutely not.

Speaker 9 Absolutely not. Wasn't too close to home, both figuratively and literally.

Speaker 7 No. No.
It wasn't a concern of mine. It wasn't a concern of D.A.
Michael Morrissey. It wasn't a concern of my supervisors.
You know, I didn't know these people.

Speaker 7 There was loose connections with Julie and Chris.

Speaker 9 The defense is questioning the physical evidence found at the scene scene at this point. Like, why wasn't Karen's taillight found at the scene right away?

Speaker 9 And the fact that there were even additional pieces of evidence found days, even weeks later?

Speaker 9 Because in pretrial hearings, they insinuate that Karen Reed's taillight fragments may have been planted there.

Speaker 9 And that cover-up theory is a recurring theme throughout the pretrial hearings for the defense. And the state says that's absolutely baseless.
Did you plant evidence?

Speaker 7 Absolutely not. And I'm laughing because it's such a ridiculous

Speaker 7 accusation. It's something I would never do.
I've never done.

Speaker 9 You know, most people would.

Speaker 7 And there's no evidence of it.

Speaker 9 We're talking about people in your community, your neighbors, who believe it. This is not strangers.
This is people in Canton. Why do you think that is?

Speaker 7 That's just the loud minority.

Speaker 7 The silent majority have, we've had an overwhelming amount of support. They're just not out there tweeting.

Speaker 9 The prosecution strongly denies allegations of a cover-up, allegations of planting or mishandling evidence, and allegations that Michael Proctor has close ties to any of the witnesses in the case.

Speaker 9 Very early on, Alan Jackson told me that he could not understand

Speaker 9 why it was that every time that you went back to the scene, oh, new evidence would materialize. He found that very suspicious.
Maybe he didn't read the weather report I provided in my reports.

Speaker 9 Which indicated.

Speaker 7 Over the next week to two weeks, temperatures range from 30 to 60 degrees with heavy rain. The snow melts at a rapid pace, and

Speaker 7 the more snow that melted, the more evidence on Earth itself.

Speaker 9 After 15 months, the stage is set for Karen's first trial.

Speaker 11 Trooper Proctor on the witness stand.

Speaker 25 Come on, Jurris.

Speaker 9 But there will be new evidence introduced at trial that the defense will use to discredit Trooper Michael Proctor and ultimately could end his career in law enforcement.

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Speaker 9 Since the very beginning, some of the biggest twists in this case have played out outside the courtroom.

Speaker 9 Some supporters of Karen Reed are being accused by authorities of harassing prosecution prosecution witnesses.

Speaker 9 Even more astonishing, John O'Keefe's own family and friends are being confronted by people in their own community as they go to pretrial hearings.

Speaker 22 We've been yelled at, that we're disgusting, that we're defending the real murderers. I think at times that they said that we have been brainwashed.
Brainwashed by who?

Speaker 27 We're leaving the courthouse and they follow us.

Speaker 27 And I remember this woman and she was screaming cop killer at me.

Speaker 20 I've never heard of such a thing in my life.

Speaker 27 We thought, okay, they boo us, okay, but they're not gonna boo John's family, right?

Speaker 7 Then they did.

Speaker 9 It must have created a lot of anger.

Speaker 41 Yep. Not so much anger, but when you walked in, like the anxiety, like I was

Speaker 41 shaking down because it was just...

Speaker 14 Every time we went in, yeah.

Speaker 30 But then, after like maybe the fourth time, we were just like, all right, let's just hold our head up high and walk through this with Johnny.

Speaker 27 I think everyone should be in agreement that the O'Keeffe's don't deserve this treatment.

Speaker 9 Are you ready for today? At Karen's first trial, swarms of supporters start to show up, and they're wearing Karen's favorite color, pink. They're literally camping outside court, cheering her on.

Speaker 1 We are Team Karen.

Speaker 21 There's enough evidence to point that she's been framed.

Speaker 8 But actually, it is the woman walking.

Speaker 9 And prosecutors come out swinging, alleging that Karen made a confession at the scene that morning. Defendant stated repeatedly, I hit him, I hit him, I hit him.

Speaker 26 I hit him, I hit him.

Speaker 22 Oh my God, I hit him.

Speaker 33 She kept saying, this is all my fault. This is my fault.

Speaker 32 I did this.

Speaker 9 Not true, says the defense.

Speaker 9 Did I hit him? Could I have hit him?

Speaker 13 That was what she was saying, both to herself

Speaker 13 and to other people.

Speaker 3 Furthermore, the defense points out not all of these statements were included in official police reports.

Speaker 9 The prosecution calls witness after witness after witness to testify that John never came into the Alberts house.

Speaker 33 John never came into my house that night.

Speaker 13 They never came into my home.

Speaker 9 The defense doubles down on scrutiny of the police investigation, starting with the way that the Canton Police Department collected blood evidence at the scene.

Speaker 42 We utilized cups, plastic cups.

Speaker 13 Those were red solo cups, right? That's correct.

Speaker 9 The defense also noting the unusual manner in which the evidence was transported.

Speaker 13 You see a bag in the middle of the photograph.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 21 Can you read what's on that bag?

Speaker 9 Stop it sharp.

Speaker 35 They may have done the best they could, but visually, this is not a good look for the the police department.

Speaker 3 The prosecution's response to that was basically, who cares? It doesn't impact the forensic integrity of the evidence.

Speaker 9 Karen's broken taillight now taking center stage. Is it damning evidence of a crime or is it evidence of a conspiracy?

Speaker 3 Karen's defense team rejects the prosecution's theory that her taillight was damaged in a collision involving John. They show ring video of Karen backing out of John's driveway around 5 a.m.

Speaker 3 and a moment when they say her car appears to bump John's parked vehicle. That's how they allege her taillight was damaged.

Speaker 3 The prosecution calls investigators who say no taillight was found in John's driveway later that day.

Speaker 9 But the moment at that first trial that would forever change the case is when Michael Proctor takes the stand.

Speaker 7 True for Michael Proctor, PRO, CTOR.

Speaker 9 In a dramatic turn, there's a separate investigation going on that may impact this trial.

Speaker 3 There is a federal investigation surrounding this case, and there's a lot of mystery about this. The exact target of this investigation has never been disclosed, and it hasn't resulted in any charges.

Speaker 3 But as a part of the investigation, the Fed subpoena Michael Proctor's personal cell phone data.

Speaker 11 They gave all that information to the prosecution and to Karen Reed and her defense team.

Speaker 3 On the stand, Michael Proctor reads texts that he wrote to both friends and colleagues from his personal cell phone while investigating John's death.

Speaker 7 Okay, so these came from me. She's a whack job.

Speaker 12 Objection.

Speaker 29 So these are your words, Trooper Proctor?

Speaker 36 Yes, Your Honor.

Speaker 31 Go ahead and say them.

Speaker 7 Yes, she's a babe. Weird Fall River accent, though.

Speaker 7 No ass.

Speaker 3 Proctor reads dozens of damning texts he sent, including derogatory and explicit comments about Karen Reed's appearance and her health.

Speaker 11 Why would I believe this guy? He's completely eviscerated on the stand.

Speaker 13 You responded to a text message from your sister, correct? And your response was:

Speaker 13 hopefully, she kills herself, correct?

Speaker 32 Yes.

Speaker 9 The defense is arguing bias against Karen Reed by Proctor was clear.

Speaker 13 Trooper Proctor, you don't get to pick a suspect and then try to find evidence to support your choice, right?

Speaker 38 Correct.

Speaker 13 But in this case, it's exactly what you did, isn't it?

Speaker 7 Absolutely not.

Speaker 9 After eight weeks of testimony, the jury cannot come to a decision, and the case ultimately ends in a mistrial.

Speaker 22 So at this point, as we sit now after the mistrial, we are sitting at halftime and we have got a second half to let play out.

Speaker 9 Far from the closure anyone involved in this case had hoped for, now a new, even more explosive chapter is about to begin.

Speaker 11 This is Bizarro World.

Speaker 18 I am put on the stand in a murder trial. I don't know why I'm here.
I have no connection to this case.

Speaker 24 These are not my words. I'm not really comfortable reading these.
Do I have to say these words out loud?

Speaker 11 I've never seen anything like it.

Speaker 13 This case carries a malignancy, and that cancer has a name. His name is Michael Proctor.

Speaker 11 Does he?

Speaker 9 The defense moves vigorously for a mistrial with prejudice.

Speaker 11 This is the retrial of the century.

Speaker 10 The defendants are guilty or not guilty.

Speaker 9 Not guilty.

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Speaker 9 Tonight, a verdict in the Karen Reed John O'Keefe murder trial.

Speaker 11 We're talking about the retrial of the century.

Speaker 9 What could be more egregious? What could be more misleading?

Speaker 22 They think that she hit him. I think that she knew she hit him.

Speaker 13 John O'Keefe was murdered. No question.
He died at the hands of another person.

Speaker 13 This wasn't Karen Reid.

Speaker 9 What happened with the state's people inside the court?

Speaker 11 The digital evidence is the centerpiece of the prosecution's case versus the people outside.

Speaker 9 All new interviews, the embattled troopers speaking out for the first time.

Speaker 7 They don't care what the evidence is. They are just all in on this theory that Karen Reed was framed.

Speaker 17 No one has fought harder for justice, for John O'Keefe, than I have.

Speaker 9 So this is the beginning of the second trial. Right now you can see Karen Reed in the back.

Speaker 11 This retrial, more people watching, more people interested, and the opinions, oh my goodness.

Speaker 9 In Massachusetts, defendant Karen Reed back for round two. She's accused of running down her boyfriend in her SUV, a Boston police officer.

Speaker 15 We're loaded for bear, ready to get the show on the road.

Speaker 9 Nine months after a deadlock jury and mistrial, Karen Reed is being tried again on all three original charges, including that second-degree murder charge.

Speaker 8 Karen, do you feel any more confident in this trial than the last one?

Speaker 4 I'm always confident in my team.

Speaker 13 Commonwealth versus Karen Reed.

Speaker 3 Whenever you have a retrial, there are going to be changes. It doesn't make any sense to use the same strategy as the first trial because it's clear the jury didn't buy parts of your story.

Speaker 31 So it's now time for the opening statements, Mr. Brennan.

Speaker 9 Some of the storytellers will also change. Original lead prosecutor Adam Lawley is out, and Hank Brennan is in.

Speaker 32 Thank you, Your Honor.

Speaker 3 Brennan once defended mobster Whitey Bulger, so he is no stranger to a high-profile case.

Speaker 11 Hank Brennan understands what the defense is trying to do, understands what the defense wants the prosecution to do.

Speaker 9 I simply ask you to follow the evidence, follow the science. The prosecution's story this time is more focused, more vivid.
Put her foot on the gas pedal and began to press, not 25%, not 50%,

Speaker 9 up to 75% acceleration.

Speaker 9 In opening statements, both sides promised something new. A cell phone is an amazing piece of technology.
For the prosecution, the new comes in the form of digital evidence.

Speaker 9 And there'll be some remarkable data that people will use in this case to find the truth.

Speaker 11 Hank Brennan wants this jury focused on the evidence coming from John O'Keefe's phone, the evidence coming from Karen Reed's SUV, evidence that he says does not have bias.

Speaker 3 If digital forensics does not connect with the jury, I don't see how the prosecution can win. You do, Mr.

Speaker 9 Jackson. In their opening statements, the defense takes a scientific approach.

Speaker 13 Ladies and gentlemen, the scientific evidence and the medical evidence will establish

Speaker 13 that John O'Keefe

Speaker 13 had to be injured somewhere else,

Speaker 9 somewhere warmer,

Speaker 13 and his body had to to have been moved out into the cold.

Speaker 11 Understanding exactly what happened that night to me is a very complicated question.

Speaker 9 And the defense never misses an opportunity to mention the name Michael Proctor, the lead investigator on this case.

Speaker 13 This case carries a malignancy, a cancer that cannot be cut out, a cancer that cannot be cured. And that cancer has a name.

Speaker 13 His name is Michael Proctor.

Speaker 3 It is not hard to conclude that Michael Proctor's words provided the jury with reasonable doubt in the first trial.

Speaker 9 And it doesn't take the prosecution very long to remind the jury of three words.

Speaker 13 She said, I hit him.

Speaker 9 I hit him.

Speaker 22 I hit him.

Speaker 4 I said, I hit him. It was preceded by a did and proceeded by a question mark.
So did I say the three words? I hit him. Yes, did I hit him?

Speaker 9 So you're saying that the entire time it was at a question mark? Yes.

Speaker 11 It's like that my cousin Vinnie moment, I shot the clerk versus I shot the clerk. So I'm wondering if this jury will have that same interpretation.

Speaker 9 And the prosecution adds something that was lacking in the first trial.

Speaker 2 Commonwealth calls Peggy O'Keefe.

Speaker 9 Emotion. Peggy O'Keefe testifying about the phone call that every mother dreads.

Speaker 44 Yeah, she said

Speaker 44 John was found in a snowbank.

Speaker 32 And I

Speaker 44 didn't understand, which I said, what do you mean, found in a snowbank? She's like, found him in the snow. They don't know what happened.

Speaker 11 She was a very powerful witness, not just in what she said, but how she said it. It really makes the jury understand that,

Speaker 11 you know, a man, a real person is gone.

Speaker 9 Good morning, Your Honor. Good morning.
I'm off to call Ian Wiffin.

Speaker 14 Okay.

Speaker 9 Ian Wiffin is a digital forensics examiner, and he analyzed the contents of John John O'Keefe's phone for the prosecution.

Speaker 9 And he was able to track the movement of the phone as it left the bar and then drove to Fairview Road. Do you have an opinion where John O'Keefe's cell phone was?

Speaker 42 My opinion is that the device never moved far away from the flat pole.

Speaker 11 It tells a story of a man who's in a car, a man who steps out of a car, and a man who never goes inside.

Speaker 9 According to Wiffin, the circles on this map indicate O'Keeffe's general location on the property. Based on his cell phone data, the smaller the circle, the more accurate the information.

Speaker 9 But Defense Attorney Robert Alessi was focused on the larger circles.

Speaker 12 The phone of John O'Keefe could be anywhere within the largest white circle, correct?

Speaker 42 Correct. And therefore, the phone could be in the house, correct?

Speaker 12 Based on the low accuracy information, yes. The answer is yes.
Yes.

Speaker 11 I came into this case I thought it was black and white. You know digital evidence is what it is.
But what we are learning through this case is that it's a matter of interpretation.

Speaker 9 With the court's permission, could I begin with clip seven?

Speaker 38 Yes.

Speaker 4 Maybe more than a few sips at the waterfall.

Speaker 9 And four drinks you felt fine to drive?

Speaker 5 Yep.

Speaker 9 Numerous clips of Reed's televised interviews have been played by the prosecution throughout the trial.

Speaker 11 And I don't care what your viewpoint is of Karen Reed, when you listen to them and you watch these clips, there is no way you can tell me they make her look good.

Speaker 39 My name is Yuri Buchanick.

Speaker 9 Yuri Buchenek was former Trooper Michael Proctor's supervisor. The prosecution needs him to minimize Proctor's involvement in the case.

Speaker 9 In the cases where you're assigned, do you investigate the case alone?

Speaker 7 Never.

Speaker 39 It's always a team effort.

Speaker 11 Buchanick did everything he could to downplay Proctor. Like, oh, Trooper who?

Speaker 11 He's one of many here, and that's just not true.

Speaker 9 At the same time, Buchanick, who was disciplined after it was revealed he was in the group chat where Proctor was sending inappropriate text messages, must also defend the work of Proctor.

Speaker 13 Do you think this case was handled with honor and integrity by Michael Proctor, Sergeant?

Speaker 38 The investigation was handled with integrity by Michael Proctor.

Speaker 9 The Commonwealth highlights the movement of Reed's vehicle while in front of the Fairview home. Their expert reviewed the onboard computer system of the Lexus, which tracks the SUV's motion.

Speaker 38 So, again, the initial forward motion is 34 feet and then backing up an additional 53 feet.

Speaker 9 And finally, regarding this part of your analysis, do you have an opinion to a reasonable degree of engineering certainty as to whether the defendant's Lexus was decelerating, accelerating, or remaining the same?

Speaker 38 It was accelerating at 74% throttle.

Speaker 9 Next, Dr. Judson Welcher provides something the prosecution did not have at the first trial.

Speaker 9 Video. The accident reconstruction he puts together is a series of slides and videos, which he claims explain how an impact could have occurred.

Speaker 32 Let's have the car drive into me.

Speaker 38 I did this at very low speeds. This is from a camera that we have pointing down at it.
But even a two-mile-an-hour impact redirects me back and causes me to rotate and take a step.

Speaker 11 Not every judge would allow this type of evidence. So that's a win for the prosecution to actually get these videos in front of the jury.

Speaker 38 With a regional degree of scientific certainty, that is what happened.

Speaker 11 This is a real expert. And the question now is

Speaker 11 his opinion versus the opinion of the experts for the defense. Who will the jury trust?

Speaker 9 But if the defendant is worried, she's not showing it. How would you sum up the prosecution's case?

Speaker 14 One word. Unjust.

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Speaker 9 Do you think Proctor will testify, Karen?

Speaker 18 I don't believe so.

Speaker 9 The lead investigator on this case, Michael Proctor, did not take the stand this time around.

Speaker 9 His highly offensive text messages about Karen Reed, which were obtained from his personal cell phone during a federal investigation, they rocked that first trial.

Speaker 7 She's a whack job.

Speaker 7 Yes, she's a babe. Weird Fall River accent though.
No ass. No nude so far.
She's gross.

Speaker 9 During the retrial, the defense once again accuses him of running a biased investigation.

Speaker 13 You'll learn there's not a single part of this case, folks, not a single part that he didn't touch, that he didn't direct, that he didn't orchestrate personally.

Speaker 13 Michael Proctor went far beyond just insulting Karen Reed. He dehumanized this woman.

Speaker 9 And while the prosecution condemns Proctor's text messages, they stand firmly by the investigation. There's not one piece of evidence, not one, that we can look at and say this was tampered with.

Speaker 9 This was planted.

Speaker 9 This was distorted. Within hours of that first trial ending, Michael Proctor was relieved of duty by the Massachusetts State Police.
He was later fired.

Speaker 9 He sat down for an exclusive interview with us and addressed those text messages, some of which were sent to personal contacts outside of law enforcement.

Speaker 24 Who are you writing to?

Speaker 7 My good buddies that have been friends with first grade. Canton hasn't had a homicide in like 20 years.

Speaker 7 So they're naturally interested, just regrettable messages. But in all the content and the messages, what you don't see is a conspiracy.

Speaker 9 What do you see?

Speaker 7 I see

Speaker 7 someone who's caught up in

Speaker 7 the moment of investigating, you know, a fellow police officer and just saying inappropriate things.

Speaker 9 Can you see why people called you sexist and misogynist?

Speaker 7 Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I could 100% understand why.

Speaker 9 As those text messages are entered into evidence, prosecutors begin to address the defense's claims of bias.

Speaker 9 And they ask Proctor about the integrity of his investigation when he takes a stand in the first trial. What if any impact did that have as far as your investigation was concerned?

Speaker 7 These juvenile, unprofessional comments have zero impact on the facts and the evidence and the integrity of this investigation.

Speaker 9 I mean, I think one of the texts that you sent about Karen Reed is that you said, hopefully she kills herself. You texted this to your sister.

Speaker 9 And that seems incredibly unprofessional for a homicide investigator speaking about his suspect.

Speaker 7 It was made in jest. You know, it's a figure of speech.
Hopefully she kills herself.

Speaker 9 Like that, not literally. That's a figure of speech? Do you use that commonly?

Speaker 38 Yes.

Speaker 7 Not commonly, but it's a figure of speech I made in like jest. It wasn't like literally, I hope she kills herself.

Speaker 9 At what point did you develop such strong negative feelings about Karen Reed that you would say things like, hopefully she kills herself or calling her the C-word?

Speaker 7 Those

Speaker 7 feelings developed

Speaker 7 as the case went on.

Speaker 9 I mean, can you see how people might think

Speaker 9 he was caught in this instance speaking about a suspect in this way? Maybe it's happened in other cases as well.

Speaker 7 I 100% understand why people would think that.

Speaker 38 But when you have, you know,

Speaker 7 a fellow police officer

Speaker 7 around my age, two kids of his own, it generates an emotion. And I express that, those emotions in a negative way, which I shouldn't have.

Speaker 7 I shouldn't have even, you know, been texting my friends anything.

Speaker 9 And some of his texts were with colleagues, including two superiors.

Speaker 7 When we first got into our phone, The number one thing I wanted to review was location data, text messages.

Speaker 7 And when we got into the phone, I texted the guys at work, you know, our work chain that joke no nude so far guys

Speaker 11 you're talking about completely inappropriate text messages that show a complete bias in the investigation and Proctor is sending these to his supervisors and he's not being admonished for it like what's going on here is this business as usual Is this being adopted and accepted by other members of law enforcement?

Speaker 3 Does the bias of one investigator or the exhibited bias, does that compromise an entire investigation? No.

Speaker 3 But could that bias have led to additional mistakes?

Speaker 11 That's the jury's job to figure out.

Speaker 9 Can you see how the impropriety of the text messages opens the door for the defense's allegations that there was some sort of conspiracy and cover-up here?

Speaker 7 There's no evidence because it didn't happen. I spent two days on the stand.
That was Alan Jackson's opportunity to... bring that up and question me on.

Speaker 9 Specifically asking you whether you planted evidence.

Speaker 7 Yeah, not one question.

Speaker 9 Boston has a history of police and law enforcement corruption.

Speaker 14 Yeah, that I agree with.

Speaker 7 Not in this case, didn't happen in.

Speaker 9 So why would it be so unreasonable for people to think, well, it's happened elsewhere and recently in Boston. Why couldn't it happen in Canton?

Speaker 7 They believe that the state police, multiple units within the state police, the Canton Police Department, about a dozen civilians are all in this conspiracy to frame a woman we don't know.

Speaker 7 And over the last two and a half, three years, not one person has said, wait a minute, I'm not going down for this. Here's what really happened.

Speaker 13 You saw the lengths to which some, some police officers will go to to protect their own at the expense of the rest of us.

Speaker 13 At the expense of Karen Reed.

Speaker 9 Is there any part of the actual investigation that you would do over?

Speaker 7 Because it's blowing up into this.

Speaker 7 crazy, crazy

Speaker 7 so-called conspiracy. Maybe I could have avoided it by, you know,

Speaker 7 looking at other people's cars just to say we did it. There's some witnesses maybe we could have interviewed a little sooner.

Speaker 7 But overall, myself and every detective in that office worked this case like we always do. And so I wouldn't change anything.

Speaker 9 Nothing.

Speaker 7 No.

Speaker 9 But things are about to change for Michael Proctor.

Speaker 7 I just remember dropping to my knees and laying on my lawn like crying.

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Speaker 9 Although Michael Proctor's name continues to reverberate throughout Karen Reed's retrial, Proctor himself retreats from the public eye.

Speaker 15 Trooper Michael Proctor is relieved of duty effective immediately.

Speaker 9 Suspended without pay. Proctor is suspended without pay pending an internal internal investigation into his conduct.

Speaker 7 I just remember dropping to my knees and laying on my lawn like crying. I couldn't even talk.

Speaker 7 I was complete hysterics. And I just remember my mother being like, what, what, what? And I kind of gathered myself and I'm like, they relieved me of duty.

Speaker 9 What was it like handing over your badge, your gun, your cruiser?

Speaker 7 What really got me was my union rep. He had to come over to my house and pick up all my uniforms.
And

Speaker 7 the one time I broke down was

Speaker 7 putting my Class A uniform.

Speaker 7 You know, you go through a six-month academy and you're very proud to put that uniform on.

Speaker 7 That was

Speaker 7 tough.

Speaker 9 In March, the State Police Trial Board dishonorably discharges Michael Proctor on two charges, including unsatisfactory performance related to state police conduct standards.

Speaker 7 I don't know any trooper that's been punished for personal text messages on their personal phone, let alone fired.

Speaker 9 He's appealing the trial board's decision.

Speaker 9 A supervisor on one of Procter's text chains is also disciplined for failure to counsel a subordinate during an investigation, and he loses five vacation days.

Speaker 9 The Massachusetts State Police say their disciplinary action is determined on a case-by-case basis.

Speaker 3 People in every job do and say stupid things. They're human beings, they make mistakes, but we have have to expect a higher degree of professionalism from a lead investigator in a case like this.

Speaker 9 With the second trial underway, public vaccination accelerates and the trial takes on a life of its own.

Speaker 11 The public interest has actually grown for the retrial. First time around, people heard about the case.
Second time around, people know the case.

Speaker 9 Social media is having a field day. Karen Reed.

Speaker 14 Karen Reed.

Speaker 30 I am just obsessed with this case.

Speaker 9 Birthday shout outs to Karen. There are dinner giveaways for Karen Reed's Defense Fund.

Speaker 13 I'm looking very forward to meeting some of you in person, to sharing a nice, intimate dinner with you.

Speaker 9 And on the free Karen Reed page, it's almost like a reality show with chef Alan Jackson behind the scenes serving up meals for Reed and her team.

Speaker 3 It's a reflection of the modern age.

Speaker 11 For Karen Reed, there's supporters who have raised money to help her defense. Karen Reed, going online, making herself accessible.

Speaker 3 Karen, we love you.

Speaker 11 Has garnered financial support, emotional support, and, you know, the court of public opinion support.

Speaker 3 But when you look at it from the perspective of the victim's family, especially those two children that were relying on him for their care, the idea that there are raffles and giveaways, it's arguably pretty grotesque.

Speaker 22 She's the happiest murder defendant in America.

Speaker 9 There's a long way to go with this second trial. How does that feel?

Speaker 22 We feel like we have a simplified strategy that the evidence will show exactly what happened. I think that she hit him.
I think that she knew she hit him.

Speaker 22 I don't think that she knew how badly he was injured.

Speaker 22 I think my biggest concern about the second trial is how do you field a objective 12-person panel, the type of media exposure that's already fired?

Speaker 22 Are we going to be able to get a fair shake?

Speaker 9 And there are these billboards urging locals to remember John, which can be seen across the Boston area.

Speaker 22 Johnny's friends and family, they got together and they wanted to remember Johnny. The goal was to ensure that the public sentiment, that folks understood what void was created from Johnny's murder.

Speaker 22 It's not just about the defendant, it should be about the victim.

Speaker 9 Amidst everything in the courtroom, John O'Keeffe's friends and family remember the guy who loves sports

Speaker 9 and the uncle who had silly treasured moments at home with the kids, like dancing with his knees to California girls by Katy Perry. But

Speaker 40 And I think that might be one of my favorite pictures because he was always the light in this family.

Speaker 30 He was always the sun like.

Speaker 41 Oh the photobombing. So that picture there, he would photo bomb every picture.
And there's a lot of pictures of Angie's birthday party.

Speaker 21 My surprise 40th. He's literally in every background of every photo photobombing.

Speaker 9 And while Reach Team prepares to present the defense in the second trial, John O'Keefe's family and friends are in court every day, only feet away from Reed.

Speaker 27 I think the hardest part is having to see John's mother sit that close to Karen and watching her laugh, giggle, smirk.

Speaker 22 There's an undertone of anxiety, but I think that there's a general presence of hope that we're going to find justice.

Speaker 9 And when we come back, Karen, we feel great.

Speaker 9 Karen Reed's team fights back.

Speaker 13 There was not not a single eyewitness to a collision. There was not even a single eyewitness to a backing event.

Speaker 11 Neither side wants to walk out of that courtroom losing.

Speaker 18 I'm anxious to see how they're going to start. Anxious? Yes.

Speaker 9 Emotions run the gamut as O'Keeffe's supporters and Karen Reed's legal team enter the courthouse in Denham.

Speaker 32 Karen and me feel great. Karen, he feels great.

Speaker 45 Go get him.

Speaker 9 It's day 24 of the retrial, and it's the defense's turn to present their case. Alan Jackson begins by asking for a mistrial.

Speaker 13 There was no eyewitness presented.

Speaker 13 There was no video evidence, no audio evidence, no evidence in the form of physical evidence at the scene by searches that were done by officers on the morning of January 29th, 2022.

Speaker 11 999 times out of a thousand, the defense loses that motion.

Speaker 11 But what I like to listen to is the arguments that are made because it sort of gives you a little bit of a preview of what the closing arguments will be.

Speaker 13 They did not prove that there was actually a collision.

Speaker 3 Jackson says the state experts may have proven the SUV went backwards, but they have not proven that it was a collision connected to that backing maneuver.

Speaker 9 But Judge Beverly Canone isn't buying it.

Speaker 31 The motion is denied as to all three of them.

Speaker 3 You can't blame the defense for trying, but it would be highly unusual for a judge to grant any mistrial requests at this point in the trial.

Speaker 9 The defense calls a longtime friend of Michael Proctor to the stand, and he confirms he was on a text chain with Proctor and other friends when the former trooper sent his now infamous texts.

Speaker 13 Good morning, sir. Would you please state your name?

Speaker 9 Jonathan Diamandis. Those text messages were entered into evidence, and the defense quickly wrapped wrapped up its questioning.

Speaker 13 All right, no further questions. Thank you, sir.

Speaker 32 Thank you.

Speaker 9 The prosecution says, not so fast. They actually want the text read aloud.
And then an objection is raised in the courtroom from the witness. Could you read all of them, please?

Speaker 24 These are not my words. I'm not really comfortable reading these.
Do I have to

Speaker 24 say these words out loud?

Speaker 9 A compromise is reached. I don't want you to say words that are not yours.
I'll say the words, and I'm going to ask you if I'm reading them accurately. Is that better?

Speaker 11 Yes. When prosecutors put bad evidence in front of a jury, they're just getting in front of it.
They want to be the ones to say, okay, we're going to put this in front of the jury.

Speaker 11 We're not hiding it from you.

Speaker 9 Next up is former Canton police officer Kelly Deborah, who wins the award for most hostile witness.

Speaker 13 Miss Deborah,

Speaker 13 do you want to be here tonight?

Speaker 18 I have no relation to this case, so.

Speaker 12 I don't ask you that.

Speaker 13 I asked you if you want to be here tonight.

Speaker 9 Objection. This isn't direct.

Speaker 31 So it's your witness.

Speaker 45 I understand. Yes.

Speaker 31 No comments, just questions. Not I understand that.

Speaker 9 Deborah once made statements to federal authorities about the Reed case, but later recanted, claiming it was false memory.

Speaker 11 Sometimes you have to call a witness who you don't get along with, who you know is not for your side, because they have information that's going to help you.

Speaker 11 Prosecutors aren't going to call her, so... Alan Jackson and the defense had to call her.

Speaker 13 Do you want to be here today, though?

Speaker 18 I am put on the stand in a murder trial. I don't know why I'm here.
I have no connection to this case.

Speaker 2 You have no idea why you're here?

Speaker 18 You've never talked to me. Nobody on the fence seems to talk to me since prior to the first trial.
So I don't have any idea why I'm here.

Speaker 13 No clue whatsoever as you sit here why you might have been called and stand.

Speaker 31 No.

Speaker 3 Whatever her value was to the defense was lost in the sea of hostility by the witness.

Speaker 8 That's all I have.

Speaker 9 The defense would later call forensic expert Dr. Marie Russell to the stand.

Speaker 31 All right, Mr. Elessi, whenever you're ready.

Speaker 9 Thank you, Your Honor. Good morning.

Speaker 48 Good morning.

Speaker 9 And she testifies about the marks on John O'Keefe's arm. Can you determine that those are from a dog?

Speaker 48 I believe they are, yes.

Speaker 9 Her credentials are real.

Speaker 11 I mean, she's done the work. She has treated people who have been bitten by dogs through the years.
But she's not an experienced expert witness.

Speaker 11 So when you see her on the stand, she's not the strongest of experts because she's not used to doing this.

Speaker 9 There is no recognized standard anywhere for methodology on how to identify a dog bite wound, is there?

Speaker 48 There is no published standard from an organization that I am aware of.

Speaker 7 When you considered...

Speaker 9 Brennan asked the doctor if her opinion on the case changed after she watched Reed's Reed's televised interviews. The doctor said no.

Speaker 48 Many people suffer from what's called an acute grief reaction.

Speaker 48 It's very common. And they do things that seem to be irrational.
They

Speaker 22 ramble.

Speaker 48 They act bizarrely.

Speaker 9 Does this happen moments after a stressful event? Oh, yes. Does it happen months later when you go on 20-20 or nightline?

Speaker 48 I've never seen that situation. No.

Speaker 11 It gave him an opportunity to point out to the jury that they've been watching these interviews inside the courtroom, these clips.

Speaker 11 And these clips are months and months after the death of John O'Keefe.

Speaker 11 So I think in that moment, Hank Brennan did a nice job of scoring some points and bringing some credibility to his side and perhaps undermining the credibility of Dr.

Speaker 9 Russell.

Speaker 9 Next up for the defense is Brian Lucky Locker. Now, he's a snowplow operator who came down Fairview Road during the storm, and his value to the defense is not what he saw, it's what he didn't see.

Speaker 13 How much of the front lawn could you see?

Speaker 39 I could see all the way to the front door.

Speaker 13 What was on the ground on the Alberts lawn at that point in the area of the flagpole? Nothing.

Speaker 13 Did you see a six-foot, one, 216-pound man lying on that lawn?

Speaker 22 No.

Speaker 9 The prosecution attributes that to Lucky simply being too busy dealing with the task at hand.

Speaker 9 When you plowed that night, did you have any reason to look for somebody who was lying on the side of a yard?

Speaker 44 No.

Speaker 9 Then the defense's most important witness. Andrew Renschler, is a biomechanical engineer, and his company conducted a series of tests.

Speaker 9 And based on these tests, Renschler offers a different opinion as to whether John O'Keeffe has even struck my vehicle at all.

Speaker 13 He did, yes. And what is that opinion?

Speaker 39 My opinion is that the evidence is inconsistent with Mr. O'Keefe being struck on the right arm by the SUV.

Speaker 9 Things get testy during cross-examination. When you looked at all the tests you did, the plastic broke differently in each and every case, every experiment, didn't it?

Speaker 39 Sure, it's broken like that. And I've never seen a case where you get these types of abrasions.

Speaker 9 I didn't ask you that.

Speaker 9 Is that funny?

Speaker 38 No, it's not funny.

Speaker 45 So,

Speaker 31 I'm going to strike the comment.

Speaker 31 Next question.

Speaker 9 Special Prosecutor Hank Brennan also suggests that Renschler is cozy with the defense. Did you have any bias before I knew?

Speaker 38 Any bias? Bias. Yes.
What do you mean? Did I have any bias?

Speaker 9 Well, after you testified, where did you go?

Speaker 39 Well, I was waiting for my ride, and to get back to the airport, they had to take other people. And so they were having a lunch afterwards.

Speaker 39 They said, Come have a sandwich, and then your ride will take you to the airport. So I went, and I had a ham sandwich.

Speaker 9 How long were you at the table eating your ham sandwich?

Speaker 39 I honestly don't know. 10 minutes.
How long does it take you to eat a ham sandwich? 10 minutes?

Speaker 9 After an exhaustive 33-day trial, both sides deliver their closing arguments.

Speaker 13 Find Karen Reed not guilty. Not guilty.

Speaker 13 Not guilty.

Speaker 9 She was drunk. She hit him.

Speaker 9 Then she left him to die.

Speaker 9 Let's go off.

Speaker 32 All right, so the court, please.

Speaker 31 So we'll start with the defendant's closing.

Speaker 2 So, Mr. Jackson?

Speaker 13 There was no collision. There was no collision.
There was no collision.

Speaker 13 This case was corrupted from the start by biases and conflicts and personal loyalties. At the end of the day, you have to ask yourself, can you trust the Commonwealth's case?

Speaker 13 They failed to provide you with a truthful representation. They failed to prove the essence of their case that John was even hit by a car to begin with.
Find Karen Reed. Not guilty.

Speaker 13 Not guilty.

Speaker 13 Not guilty.

Speaker 13 Thank you.

Speaker 9 On January 29, 2022, John O'Keefe had just been hit by Karen Reed. Then he lay on the ground

Speaker 14 dying.

Speaker 39 And he needed help.

Speaker 9 She made a choice. She didn't call 911.

Speaker 9 She didn't run to his aid.

Speaker 9 She made a decision.

Speaker 13 She drove away.

Speaker 9 She left him alone to die.

Speaker 9 He is not an it.

Speaker 9 John O'Keefe is not a body.

Speaker 9 John O'Keefe is not a buffalo on a prairie.

Speaker 9 John O'Keefe was a person,

Speaker 25 and he was murdered

Speaker 9 by Karen Reed.

Speaker 9 Talk about the closings. How do you feel they went? I mean, for your side?

Speaker 18 I don't think mine could have gone better.

Speaker 8 I love y'all.

Speaker 28 This has been a long three years, around three years. So we're all kind of on pins and needles, just waiting.

Speaker 9 As the jury continues to deliberate, the crowds outside the courthouse continue to grow.

Speaker 9 You can see the Karen Reed supporters wearing their pink outside the courthouse. Right now, there are Karen Reed supporters pouring into the street.
They're getting closer.

Speaker 9 We are inches away from a verdict.

Speaker 10 Mr. Foreman, members of the jury, have you agreed upon a verdict?

Speaker 14 Yes. Mr.

Speaker 10 Foreman, a murder in the second degree, what say you is the defendant at the bar guilty or not guilty?

Speaker 9 Not guilty.

Speaker 10 002, what say you is the defendant at the bar not guilty or guilty?

Speaker 10 Not guilty.

Speaker 10 Specifically, number five, operating under the influence of liquor.

Speaker 9 So say you, Mr. Foreman.
Guilty.

Speaker 10 Leaving the scene after accident resulting in death. Defendant not guilty or guilty?

Speaker 10 So say you, Mr. Foreman?

Speaker 10 So say you all.

Speaker 9 I couldn't actually hear the verdict because there was so much noise. And when the first part of that verdict was read, there was absolute jubilation as that that not guilty verdict comes in.

Speaker 9 A member of Karen Reed's defense team is in tears and can see Karen's hands trembling.

Speaker 9 Right now you can hear the cheers of the crowd right there. Alan Jackson, Karen Reed in that light blue suit emerging from the courthouse.

Speaker 11 They're waving to the crowd.

Speaker 9 They're making that hand gesture in sign language of love to their supporters.

Speaker 9 You can see that confetti exploding right there.

Speaker 9 Karen Reed's legal team and Karen Reed in the powder blue suit just to the right. We're going to hear Karen right now.

Speaker 17 I just want to say two things.

Speaker 17 Number one is I could not be standing here without these amazing supporters who have supported me and my team financially and more importantly, emotionally for almost four years.

Speaker 17 And the second thing I want to say is no one has fought harder for justice for John O'Keefe than I have.

Speaker 17 Thank you to my supporters.

Speaker 4 They pulled us through on their backs. Thank you.

Speaker 9 And not seen in the swirl of confetti and this crowd here is the family and friends of Officer John O'Keefe.

Speaker 9 Throughout this over three-year-long ordeal, they have remained stoic and reserved and dignified.

Speaker 9 And tonight they have to somehow cope with both losing their son and this trial.

Speaker 9 Karen Reed may not have been convicted of murder, but she is not out of the legal woods yet.

Speaker 9 This has been the trial of a decade, over three years in the making. But the saga is not over for Karen Reed.

Speaker 9 Karen Reed's sentence for OUI, basically driving under the influence, earned her a year of probation.

Speaker 9 And the family of John O'Keefe has already filed a wrongful death suit against her after that mistrial in 2024.

Speaker 9 Despite the heartbreak of this verdict for the O'Keeffe O'Keeffe family, they continue to try to find ways to honor John in their everyday lives.

Speaker 27 John's badge number is 2490.

Speaker 27 So I have his badge number on my necklace. We have stickers that we put on our phones.
We have stickers on the car.

Speaker 30 Renee and I both got tattoos with this badge number.

Speaker 22 And that's become the numerical symbol of finding justice for him. Justice for Jack!

Speaker 8 Justice for Jack.

Speaker 9 The last picture you took together, was that at Opening Day?

Speaker 22 Yeah, it was an Opening Day shot at Lansdown. Welcome to Opening Day.

Speaker 22 It's one of the few pictures we took. We didn't take a whole lot of pictures.

Speaker 9 But you're both beaming in that picture.

Speaker 22 Yeah, we had a good day. We had a very good day.

Speaker 9 And this year, you went with John's nephew?

Speaker 22 I did. We've tried to keep that tradition alive.
We've taken Johnny's nephew to three of the last four opening days.

Speaker 9 What has that been like?

Speaker 22 It's, frankly, it's been genuinely enjoyable. He happens to be a great kid.
I've known him since he was really little. My relationship with Johnny's nephew is very important to me.

Speaker 22 To me, it's just about maintaining that connection and maintaining tradition. And tradition was important for Johnny.

Speaker 22 Every year, we go to Johnny's gravesite. So Johnny's brother, Johnny's closest friends from the Boston Police Force.
It's a way for family and friends to get together and honor him as a community.

Speaker 28 People keep asking, you know, what legacy he left behind, and I would say a legacy of honor.

Speaker 28 He was an honorable man.

Speaker 31 He was a good man.

Speaker 28 I can't really say enough good things about John.

Speaker 9 I should miss him.

Speaker 9 David, this is the end of a very long, emotional journey for so many in that community and beyond. No question about that.
For Karen Reid tonight, relief.

Speaker 9 And for John O'Keefe's family, major disappointment. We should point out, though, that the civil suit against her is still ongoing.
That's our program for tonight. Thanks for watching.

Speaker 30 I'm David Muir. And I'm Deborah Roberts.

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