Karen Read Preps for Retrial in New Doc About Boyfriend John O’Keefe’s Death

Karen Read is on the heart of a brand new documentary sequence providing intimate entry as she and her authorized workforce gear up for her retrial in the demise of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe — and TMZ has your unique first take a look at Tuesday’s upcoming episode.

In Investigation Discovery’s “A Physique in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read,” Karen opens up her Mansfield, Massachusetts house to cameras and questions, insisting the allegations towards her don’t add up.

Prosecutors allege in 2022, Read bought right into a heated drunken argument with O’Keefe earlier than backing up and hitting him together with her SUV, killing him … then fleeing the scene, leaving him to die in a good friend’s snow-covered entrance yard.

Read has all the time insisted she’s harmless, and her workforce claims she was framed — saying John bought right into a combat along with his fellow officers that evening they usually pinned his demise on her.

Karen’s first trial ended in a mistrial final yr … the jury voted to acquit her on second-degree homicide and fleeing the scene — however deadlocked 9-3 in favor of convicting her on vehicular manslaughter.

The brand new docuseries dives into Karen’s upcoming April retrial, the investigation, her preparations, and the encircling theories — that includes key figures and an inside take a look at her mindset throughout 2024’s trial. Read’s going through fees of second-degree homicide, motorized vehicle manslaughter whereas driving underneath the affect, and leaving the scene of a collision inflicting demise.