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Karen Read retrial: New video evidence of Higgins sheds new light


Published on 2025-05-20 02:31:31 - NewsNation
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  • New video evidence in the Karen Read trial raises fresh questions about ATF Agent Brian Higgins. He claimed he was moving cars during a snowstorm the night John O'Keefe died
  • but surveillance shows him at the police station at 1:30 a.m., on his phone, and moving a mysterious bag between cars. Higgins later destroyed his phone and SIM card. This footage wasn't shown in the first trial
  • and while prosecutors aren't calling him this time, Read's defense team might.

Karen Read, accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend John O'Keefe in 2022, will face a retrial after a mistrial was declared due to a hung jury. The case centers around video evidence from the night of the incident, which prosecutors claim shows Read's SUV hitting O'Keefe and then reversing over him. Defense attorneys argue that the video is inconclusive and suggest O'Keefe was beaten inside a house and then left outside. The retrial is set to begin on October 16, 2024, and will focus heavily on the interpretation of this crucial video evidence.

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