Takeways of the first two episodes of new series

Read takes the spectators behind the scene in a new Discovery Docuseries research, offering an intimate look at their search to defend their innocence.

Karen read walking through a multitude of followers to the courtroom. Kayla Bartkowski for Boston Globe, Archive

March 18, 2025 | 4:38 pm

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Get sincere in a new true crime docuseries, Karen Lee He firmly kept his innocence and shot the prosecutors and witnesses equally while taking the spectators behind the scene in his sensational case of murder.

“This is my version of testifyA body in the snow.”

The first two deliveries of the Docuseries landed on Monday night, taking the true fans of the crime to a case that has put the local police under the microscope, generated innumerable protests and seized Boston for more than three years.

The episodes of Chronicle Read the reading of almost two years with Boston Police officer John O’Keefe, with whom he is accused of ramming with his SUV on a snowy night in Canton in January 2022.

The first Read trial ended in a jury hung last summer, and is scheduled to be judged again in April.

Read thought that O’Keefe was cheating the night he died

Speaking in the docuserias, Read remembered the house in 34 Fairview Road seemed dark and little guest while she and O’Kefe stop shortly after midnight on January 29, 2022. He said he sent his boyfriend inside to confirm that they were welcome, since they did not know the Alberts well.

Read said that he saw O’Kefe arrive at the side door, “and he opened the door and went in.” When he did not return, read left, go. In Subsequent voice mail series He left on O’Kefe’s phone, called her boyfriend a “pervert,” told her that she hated him and accused him of sleeping with “another girl.”

“I am drinking, I am cursing, it is horrible,” he acknowledged in the docuseries, reflecting on his messages.

“I convinced myself that I was sleeping with someone,” he explained. “And there were several women in the neighborhood of FairView with which John had been.”

Read against McCabe

When O’Keefe had not returned home hours later, Read launched a frantic search and agreed to two of his friends, Kerry Roberts and Jennifer McCabe. McCabe, Brian Albert’s sister -in -law, had been drinking with the couple last night and attended the back party in 34 Fairview Road. He is also one of the lawyers of several people who read, he claimed that he participated in a conspiracy to frame the reading for O’Kefe’s murder.

When the three women found O’Keefe insensitive in the snow around 6 in the morning, “my first thought was: ‘He went drunk. He fell and is suffocating in his vomiting,” the reading recalled.

In a matter of months, and with the help of a “serious” voice Tipster – Read lawyers had another theory: that O’Keefe was severely beaten in 34 Fairview Road, attacked by Alberts’s pet dog and went to Dead. The key to that theory is a google search that McCabe supposedly performs at 2:27 am, “Hos longed to die cold.” (McCabe argues that he did the search after finding the body of O’Keefe hours later, and in the insistence of Read).

Testifying at the first Read trial last summer, McCabe claimed that Read said: “I hit him. I hit him. I hit him” When a paramedic asked if he knew what happened to O’Keefe. Several first to respond also testified that they heard read say “I hit him”, although defense lawyer Alan Jackson said the statement is not commemorated in incident reports or images of the scene.

Read did not hide his animosity towards McCabe as he reflected on that fateful morning.

“Jen McCabe, it’s me or her,” he said. “Or I’m going to go down, Jen or you.”

Reading added: “I remember everything. I said: ‘Could I have hit it? I hit it?’ I mean, I’m not as clear as it would be if I hadn’t been drinking. “

Read statements that did not drink as much as prosecutors claim

Even so, read denied consuming the Nine alcoholic beverages Prosecutor Adam Lally attributed him in his final argument last summer. He said he did not consume three of the drinks that served him in CF McCarthy’s and, on the other hand, had a total of six drinks over the course of three hours.

“Everyone was a level of poisoning,” he said about the group excursion. “That was what we did in Canton; everyone drank. They leave these bars, they are in their small enclaves where everyone can drive from the way home, and nobody is stopped.”

SHOCK FOR SCALE LOADS

Reading the question of its potential guilt plagued it for about three days after O’Keefe died.

“The day after John was killed, he was confused and bewildered,” he recalled. “There was no memory that nothing happened, but I had been drinking and it was late. I never heard from him, never, obviously. So I thought: ‘Could I have attended it?

But the defense lawyer, David Yannetti, said he was “stunned” when a large jury accused of read for positions that included second degree murders, an escalation of their previous district cutting positions. Read’s surprise is equally evident in the images of his June 2022 arrest for the most severe positions.

As shown in the docuseries, Read begged officers the opportunity to change their pajamas and shoes before they stopped it.

“I don’t want to be on channel 4 in my pajamas,” he explained.

The footage then cuts the principal investigator, assumed the soldier of the Massachusetts State Police MICHAEL PROCTORWho can see your colleagues: “Do you see how crazy you are? … is more concerned about how you look on television.”

According to Read, reality sank when it was reserved and took her to jail.

“That’s when I realized that this was for preserves,” he said. “They wanted a pound of meat from me.”

The new episodes will be transmitted in the discovery of investigations on Tuesday and Wednesday night at 9 pm Episodes will also be available to transmit in Max.