Read's lawyers say John O’Keefe was beaten, bitten by a dog, then left outside a home in Canton in a conspiracy orchestrated by the police that included planting evidence against Read.

Read was accused of hitting her boyfriend with her car and leaving him to die in a snowstorm, but alleged she was the victim of a cover-up by his fellow officers. Her 2024 trial ended in a hung jury.

We couldn’t prove there was a collision and she was responsible for John’s death,” juror Paula Prado said. “The Commonwealth and the investigators didn’t do their jobs to prove that to us.”

The jury started to deliberate shortly after 2:30 p.m. Friday and were sent home two hours later. Deliberations will resume Monday morning.

Two jurors and the lead investigator in the murder trial of Karen Read have come forward to comment about the case since a jury returned a not guilty verdict earlier this week

The drama surrounding the drawn-out Karen Read murder trial finally reached its courtroom conclusion Wednesday. Now, it’s about to hit the campaign trail. It also drew scrutiny to Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey’s office,

Karen Read left the Norfolk County Superior Court a free woman, but the former financial analyst who has spent more than three years as a murder suspect still faces a civil lawsuit over John O’Keefe’s death.

After Karen Read was acquitted earlier this week on murder and manslaughter charges in the death of her boyfriend, John O'Keefe, a Boston police officer, her parents told WBZ-TV they are now focused on trying to get back to normal.