Karen Read trial returns
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John O'Keefe's niece was the first witness to take the stand at Karen Read's trial Wednesday morning.The niece, who WBZ-TV will not identify by name, is now a high school junior. She was around 14 years old when John O'Keefe died.
Read is accused of backing her SUV into her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe, and leaving him for dead.
Massachusetts prosecutors played eight of Karen Read's voicemails sent to John O'Keefe on the night she allegedly struck him with her Lexus SUV and left him to die.
Prosecutors played multiple profanity-laden voicemails that Karen Read left John O’Keefe on the morning he died for jurors in Read's murder trial.
The case out of Dedham, Massachusetts, has turned into a yearslong whodunnit legal saga that has captivated true-crime fans across the country.
Karen Read pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the death of Boston police officer John O’Keefe and is facing a retrial after a jury was unable to reach a verdict last year.