Karen Read

Hundreds of pages of notes and more than 2,500 images from the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office are now in possession of defense attorneys for Brian Walshe. His wife, Ana Walshe, was reported missing in January of 2023. Prosecutors say Brian killed Ana in their home in Cohasset, Massachusetts, on New Year’s Day, dismembering her body and discarding her remains...

Prosecutors in the Karen Read trial spent the day in court trying to discredit the expertise of the defense’s dog bite expert, Dr. Marie Russell, so she can’t testify in the retrial.

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Dr. Marie Russell was back in court to be quizzed by lawyers on what makes her qualified to testify in the Karen Read retrial. 

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A defense expert in the Karen Read case spent hours on the stand Tuesday explaining and defending her work on dog bite analysis ahead of Read’s second trial later this year. Read is accused of hitting her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him to die in the snow in Canton, Massachusetts, outside the home...

The Massachusetts State Police internal affairs investigation into Trooper Michael Proctor, the now-suspended investigator who was a key figure in the first Karen Read murder trial, has ended, setting up a trial board hearing next week. Proctor, who was the lead investigator in the Read case, was suspended without pay last July after a duty status hearing. The department confirmed...

Prosecutors in the Karen Read case are pushing to exclude testimony from a defense witness on the “hos long to die in cold” Google search that’s a major part of Read’s claim that she’s being framed....

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The Norfolk DA’s Office calls Karen Read’s claim that someone else googled the phrase, “hos long to die in cold,” hours before John O’Keefe’s body was found “debunked” and want the expert behind the claim out of the retrial.

A hearing was held Thursday in the Karen Read case ahead of her second trial next year to discuss whether certain experts will be allowed to testify at Read’s second trial. Initially, the retrial at Norfolk Superior Court was set to take place in January, but last week, Judge Beverly Cannone approved a motion from the defense team and prosecutors...

Richard Schiffer Jr. had argued in Stoughton District Court that he had a First Amendment right to support the defense theory that Karen Read has been framed in the polarizing murder case.

The start of Karen Read’s second criminal trial will be delayed after the judge overseeing the high-profile case on Monday approved a motion from both the prosecution and defense, according to court records.

The Karen Read murder case judge granted prosecutors’ request for access to off-the-record interviews and other documents from interviews with Boston Magazine reporter Gretchen Voss.

The judge presiding over the Karen Read murder trial has ruled that interview materials from two local news outlets must be turned over to lawyers ahead of her retrial. 

A request by prosecutors in the Karen Read murder case for the release of phone records between Read and her parents on the night of John O’Keefe’s death has been denied. Judge Beverly Cannone denied the motion Friday afternoon, writing, “Despite the detailed arguments articulated in the supporting memorandum and at oral argument, the affidavit in support of the motion...

A request by prosecutors for the release of phone records between Karen Read and her parents has been denied.

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The state wants phone records from Karen Read’s parents.

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The Karen Read case was back in court on Tuesday in a hearing that addressed a flurry of motions, including requests from the Commonwealth for phone records and materials from the media. Read is accused of ramming into John O’Keefe, her Boston police officer boyfriend, with her SUV and leaving him to die in a snowstorm in January 2022. Read’s...

Scrutiny over Massachusetts State Police’s handling of murder investigations has boiled over in the past year. The Karen Read murder trial and the Sandra Birchmore case — only recently classified as a homicide because the federal government stepped in — have garnered headlines across the region and the nation. Those cases reignited passions for Jennifer Root Bannon, who lost her...

The Massachusetts State Police have disciplined the former head of a unit that investigated Karen Read, making him forfeit six days of accrued leave after an internal investigation. Col. Geoffrey Noble announced Tuesday evening that Det. Lt. Brian Tully, who formerly led the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office’s detective unit, was found to have violated department rules and regulations. Tully...

The Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office is seeking phone records from Karen Read’s mother as they get ready for her retrial. Here’s why. 

The prosecution in Karen Read’s murder case is now seeking phone records from her mother, part of their planned questioning of her father in January’s retrial of some of Massachusetts’ most controversial criminal charges in years.