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.”

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.

Karen Read was found not guilty for the 2022 death of her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe, more than one year after her first trial ended in a hung jury.