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VERDICT WATCH: Jury Deliberations Underway in Karen Read Murder Trial, Accused of Killing Boston Police Officer Boyfriend, John O’Keefe
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Attorneys delivered closing arguments Friday in the retrial of Massachusetts woman Karen Read, accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Read, a 45-year-old former adjunct professor, has pleaded not guilty in connection with O’Keefe’s death. Prosecutors accused Read of hitting O’Keefe with her Lexus SUV during a snowstorm …

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June 12, 2025

Mistrial Declared on Final Count in Harvey Weinstein’s Sexual Assault Retrial

The retrial of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in New York ended on Thursday with a conviction, an acquittal, and a mistrial after weeks of testimony. Weinstein was convicted in 2020 of rape and criminal sexual assault, but the state’s highest court overturned the conviction last year, saying that accusers who were not part of …

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June 12, 2025

‘Cult Mom’ Lori Vallow Daybell Found Guilty for 3rd Time

An Arizona jury deliberated for 30 minutes on Thursday before finding Lori Vallow Daybell guilty of conspiring to kill her niece’s ex-husband in 2019. It’s the third jury to find the so-called “cult mom” guilty of serious crimes. An Idaho jury convicted her in the deaths of two of her children and her fifth husband’s …

Karen Read and John OKeefe
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June 2, 2025

Karen Read Murder Trial: Dog Bite Expert Says Holes in Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe’s Shirt Were Consistent with Dog Attack

A retired ER doctor and former medical director took the stand Monday in Karen Read’s murder retrial. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Read, 45, a former adjunct professor at Bentley University, faces second-degree murder and other charges related to the death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe. Prosecutors alleged that Read hit O’Keefe with …

Crystal Rogers
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May 30, 2025

Crystal Rogers Case: Steve Lawson Found Guilty of Conspiracy, Tampering With Evidence

The first trial in connection with the murder of a Kentucky mom who disappeared in 2015 has ended less than a week after it started, with a jury finding Steven Lawson guilty of conspiracy to murder and tampering with physical evidence. The jury, which deliberated about 2 1/2 hours before returning the verdict, recommended 17 …

Karen Read and John OKeefe
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May 28, 2025

Karen Read Murder Trial: Crash Resconstruction Expert Continues Testimony Under Cross-Examination

A crash reconstructionist returned to the stand Wednesday in Karen Read’s second murder. Read is accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe, by running him over with her Lexus SUV. She’s currently on trial at the Norfolk Superior Court in Massachusetts. Crash reconstruction expert Judson Welcher endured cross-examination Wednesday from Read’s defense …

Karen Read and John OKeefe
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May 7, 2025

‘You are f***ng using me right now’: Jurors Hear Explosive Voicemails in Karen Read Murder Trial; She Called Officer Boyfriend 44 Times Before His Death

Massachusetts jurors heard a series of profanity-laced voicemails Tuesday that Karen Read left for her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, in the early morning hours of January 29, 2022—the same day prosecutors say she struck and killed him with her SUV. According to CBS News, prosecutors played the messages during the tenth day of …

Alexa Bartell
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April 28, 2025

Rock-Throwing Teen Convicted of First Degree Murder

A jury last week convicted a Colorado man of first degree murder for his part in a night of teenaged rock-throwing that killed a woman as the landscaping stone he hurled crashed through her windshield and struck her. Two co-defendants pleaded guilty for their parts in the April 19, 2023, incident that killed Alexa Bartell, …

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April 22, 2025

‘Cult Mom’ Lori Vallow Daybell GUILTY of Conspiracy to Kill 4th Husband

An Arizona jury has returned a verdict of guilty for Lori Vallow Daybell in her trial for conspiracy to kill her fourth husband in 2019 — the incident that began a series of deaths and attempted murders that saw her and her fifth husband ultimately convicted of killing two of her children and his first …

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April 20, 2025

Jury Gives Death Sentence to Texas Man Who Killed Family of 3

The sentencing trial of a man guilty of killing a Houston family of three has come to a close. On March 24, moments before opening statements were given at 30-year-old Xavier Davis’s trial, he pleaded guilty to the murders of Donyavia Lagway, 29, Gregory Carhee, 35, and Harmoney Carhee, 6. Davis’s guilty plea immediately moved …