CANTON, Mass. (AP) — The woman Accused of crashing her luxury SUV into her boyfriend and a blizzard who briefly dated a future Boston police officer in his 20s before leaving him on the floor. They reunited during the pandemic.
Her father described her as a determined woman who battled health issues and had the support of her family.
Not long ago she was charged with murder in her death John O’Keefe, Karen Reid He went on to a successful career as a financial analyst and adjunct professor at Bentley College. Now 44, he grew up in Blacksburg, Virginia and Taunton, Massachusetts. He attended Coyle & Cassidy, a now-closed private Roman Catholic school, and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in finance from Bentley, a private university in Waltham.
When she reunited with O’Keefe, she moved to suburban Canton to care for her niece and nephew after their parents died. She told ABC News before the trial that she admired him for stepping up for his family, that he helped the children and stayed often.
But their relationship broke up. The niece and nephew testified about their verbal altercation. What should have been a fun-filled trip to Aruba in December 2021 was marred by angry words of hostility and accusations of cheating.
Prosecutors suggested O’Keefe was looking for a way out earlier Their last night was bar-hopping Together. Minutes after she allegedly swerved her SUV into him on the front lawn of another officer’s house on Jan. 29, 2022, she again left a voicemail to jurors saying, “John, I (expletive) hate you.”
Read, whose protection he said She was framed “Convenient outsiders” were supported by friends and family, including Bentley’s former dean, William Reed, who posted $50,000 bail for his daughter to protect the law enforcement circle. He sat behind her in the courtroom every day and said they believed in her innocence.
Before being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she underwent multiple surgeries for Crohn’s disease, and her father told the Boston Globe, “Karen never broke down, she never lost her determination.”
