Karen Read offers theory on what really happened to her cop boyfriend John O’Keefe

Karen Read, nan woman accused of mowing down her Boston bull boyfriend, has speculated he was really killed successful an “out of control” saga pinch friends — arsenic she revealed she keeps a “go bag” successful lawsuit she’s abruptly arrested again.

Read, 44, offered up nan mentation successful Vanity Fair interview published Tuesday arsenic she doubled down connected her long-held claims that she is being framed complete John O’Keefe’s January 2022 death.

The alleged killer, who is conscionable months retired from a 2nd proceedings aft her first 1 ended pinch a hung jury, has been accused of ramming O’Keefe pinch her Lexus SUV and leaving him for dormant successful a snowstorm aft dropping him astatine a Canton, Mass., location statement pinch his bull friends.

“I judge immoderate happened to John was a setup to thatch him a instruction aliases tune him up, and it sewage retired of control. No 1 would take to termination personification successful their ain location and past group it up truthful sloppily,” Read told nan magazine.

Karen Read is accused of ramming John O’Keefe pinch her SUV and leaving him for dormant successful a snowstorm aft dropping him astatine a Canton, Mass., location statement pinch his bull friends. David McGlynn

Read and her defense lawyers person agelong claimed — successful interviews and astatine her melodramatic two-month proceedings — that O’Keefe was killed wrong nan location and later dragged outside.

O’Keefe was recovered pinch 2 achromatic eyes, skull fractures, and cuts connected his look and nan backmost of his hands, arsenic good arsenic claw-like marks connected 1 of his arms, erstwhile his assemblage was discovered nan pursuing greeting successful nan snowbank.

His autopsy wished he died of hypothermia and blunt unit trauma. 

In nan aftermath, Read — who had been making love nan constabulary serviceman since 2020 — was charged pinch second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating nether nan power of intoxicant and leaving nan segment of individual wounded and death.

Read, who is conscionable months retired from a 2nd proceedings aft her first 1 ended pinch a hung jury, had been making love nan constabulary serviceman since 2020. Courtesy of David Yannetti

She claims, though, that investigators only zeroed successful connected her because she saved them from having to probe rule enforcement officers arsenic suspects.

“I told my parents, if I did thing successful immoderate way, I’ll salary my dues … that’s really this should work. I want to cognize nan truth — good, bad, ugly,” Read said successful nan caller question and reply arsenic she continued to profess her innocence.

Read said she besides now keeps a Ziploc “go bag” fresh successful her location successful lawsuit of a “sudden arrest,” according to nan outlet.

“In it: Advil, melatonin, toothbrush, toothpaste, hairbrush, drugstore lipstick, portion of insubstantial pinch her lawyer’s telephone number connected it, and a vessel of Laura Mercier foundation, near complete from her erstwhile life,” nan mag noted.  

“I’m not backing down now,” she added of her looming 2nd trial, which is slated to footwear disconnected successful January.

“As scary arsenic a imaginable condemnation is, I will spell to jailhouse for thing I didn’t do earlier I plea out. I will ne'er springiness them that win.”

Elsewhere successful nan wide-ranging interview, Read acknowledged she has been surviving a nightmare ever since she was first fingered arsenic a fishy and that her ineligible bills fighting nan charges person already surpassed $5 million.

The question and reply comes aft Read’s sensational two-month criminal trial ended successful July when nan judge declared a mistrial after jurors said they were deadlocked. 

She is now awaiting a Jan. 27 retrial connected nan 3 charges.

Her lawyers, though, revenge a mobility to nan state’s highest tribunal past week successful an effort to bolster earlier arguments that 2 of nan counts — second-degree execution and leaving nan segment — should beryllium dismissed.

They based on that 5 jurors came guardant aft her mistrial to opportunity that they were deadlocked only connected a manslaughter count and had agreed that she wasn’t blameworthy connected nan different counts.

Meanwhile, prosecutors person based on that there’s nary ground for dismissing nan charges because nan assemblage said 3 times that it was deadlocked earlier a mistrial was declared.

“The suspect was not acquitted of immoderate complaint because nan assemblage did not return, announce, and affirm immoderate unfastened and nationalist verdicts of acquittal,” they wrote successful nan filing.