Murder Defendant Karen Read Says She Would've 'cheered' Oj Simpson Verdict As She Prepares For 2nd Trial

Karen Read, accused of mowing down her Boston bull boyfriend, John O'Keefe, and leaving him to dice connected nan crushed successful a blizzard, told an interviewer that she would person applauded OJ Simpson's acquittal connected execution charges successful nan 1990s if she'd gone done nan aforesaid ineligible battles she's now facing, backmost then.

"I’m not saying I judge OJ was innocent, but I judge that it was not a wholly above-board investigation," Read, 45, told Vanity Fair successful remarks published Thursday. "Now that I americium smarter, I would’ve shouted astatine that acquittal. You person to clasp cops accountable."

When nan proceedings came to a verdict successful October 1995, she said, she thought his "dream team" of elite Los Angeles defense lawyers "all looked for illustration snake lipid salesmen."

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Defendant Karen Read and lawyer Alan Jackson reappraisal assemblage questionnaires during time 2 of assemblage action successful her retrial astatine Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass. connected Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (Greg Derr/ Pool The Patriot Ledger)

Now she has her ain high-powered LA attorney, erstwhile charismatic Alan Jackson, who helped convict euphony shaper Phil Spector of murder.

Last week, Los Angeles-based erstwhile national charismatic Neama Rahmani compared Michael Proctor, nan fired lead interrogator successful Read's case, to nan homicide detective who had a likewise unsmooth acquisition connected nan guidelines against Simpson, calling him "the worst law enforcement witnesser [he's] seen since Mark Fuhrman successful nan OJ case." 

Furhman was a erstwhile LAPD detective who was caught connected portion utilizing group slurs. Jurors later recovered Simpson not guilty.

Proctor sent lewd matter messages astir Read that were publication successful tribunal for nan assemblage successful which he wrote astir searching her telephone for nude selfies and said he wished she would termination herself. The judge declared a mistrial little than a period later, aft jurors had deadlocked for days.

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This May 3, 1995, record photograph shows execution suspect O.J. Simpson (R) consulting pinch friend Robert Kardashian (C) and Alvin Michelson (L), nan lawyer representing Kardashian, during a proceeding successful Los Angeles.  (Vince Bucci/AFP via Getty Images)

"The defense is having a section time here," Rahmani said. "I'm not saying Karen Read is really innocent, and this is simply a framework job, but nan defense has a batch to activity with."

While connected nan witnesser guidelines astatine Read's first trial, Proctor called his texts "juvenile" and "unprofessional" but said they do not alteration nan grounds against Read aliases nan facts of nan case. The assemblage deadlocked.

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Karen Read and John O'Keefe airs for an undated photograph. (Karen Read)

His woman and sister, besides named arsenic witnesses for nan 2nd trial, person publically defended him arsenic a 16-year constabulary seasoned whose only blemish came erstwhile he was fired arsenic a consequence of nan texts. Read took announcement and called them out, too.

"All [their] connection did was put his vile behaviour backmost successful nan news cycle, and he had to usage 2 women to do it?" Read told Vanity Fair. "Can’t he speak for himself?"

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Elizabeth Proctor, nan erstwhile trooper's wife, told Fox News Digital that nan defendant's galore media interviews are portion of an "unrelenting propaganda" run and an effort to tie attraction distant from grounds successful nan case.

"What Ms. Read stated is inaccurate, per usual," she said. "Michael said for himself connected nan guidelines nether oath – thing Ms. Read will ne'er do. She will ne'er return nan guidelines and speak to nan jurors nether oath and alternatively continues to dispersed a mendacious communicative to nan media."

She noted that nan charges and grounds against Read person not been changed aft a national probe, nan authorities constabulary reappraisal that led to her husband's firing, and an audit into nan Canton Police Department, which played a backup domiciled successful nan investigation into O'Keefe's death.

Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor takes nan guidelines during Karen Read's first execution proceedings astatine Norfolk Superior Court.  (Kayla Bartkowski/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

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Read is asking nan Supreme Court to flip 2 of nan 3 charges she faces nan 2nd clip around, arguing double jeopardy, but assemblage action is already nearing competition, which could spot opening statements early adjacent week. 

Sixteen jurors were selected arsenic of nan extremity of nan time Thursday – 12 to deliberate, pinch 4 alternates – but Judge Beverly Cannone said she wanted different 2 alternates added to nan panel, a tribunal charismatic told Fox News Digital. The process resumes Monday.

If Read is convicted of nan apical complaint of second-degree murder, she could look life successful prison.

Judge Beverly Cannone presides complete assemblage action during nan Karen Read proceedings astatine Norfolk County Superior Court, Thursday, April 18, 2024, successful Dedham, Mass. (David McGlynn/New York Post via AP, Pool)

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If her petition earlier nan nation's apical tribunal is successful, nan only remaining complaint would beryllium manslaughter.

Prosecutors allege that successful a drunken conflict aft a nighttime of drinking, Read backed into O'Keefe astatine astir 25 mph, knocking him to nan crushed earlier driving distant without him. A terrible snowstorm blasted nan region that night, and he was discovered connected chap Boston Police Officer Brian Albert's beforehand section nan adjacent morning.

While O'Keefe's mode of decease was ruled "undetermined," nan origin was a operation of trauma to nan caput and hypothermia, according to nan aesculapian examiner's autopsy.

Witness Brian Albert testifies during nan proceedings of Karen Read astatine Norfolk County Superior Court, Friday, May 10, 2024, successful Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)

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Read has denied nan charges and has pleaded innocent. She claims that personification other killed O'Keefe and dragged him into nan acold and she is being framed.

Her lawsuit prompted residents of nan community, Canton, Massachusetts, to committee an audit of their constabulary department. A study connected nan auditor's findings was published earlier this month.

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Karen Read arrives for assemblage action for her proceedings astatine Norfolk County Superior Court, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass.  (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

It recovered nary grounds that Canton constabulary had been progressive successful a conspiracy to framework Read, but nan lead agency connected nan lawsuit was nan Massachusetts State Police.

Proctor, nan lead investigator, mislaid his occupation pinch nan Massachusetts State Police successful March aft an soul reappraisal into his handling of nan lawsuit kicked disconnected pursuing Read's first trial. 

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The disciplinary study recovered that he had conducted himself unprofessionally, shared confidential accusation pinch group who were not privy to rule enforcement accusation connected nan case, and drunk intoxicant connected nan job. He was not accused of concocting grounds against Read.