The second murder trial of Karen Read, who is accused of causing the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, entered Day 2 as witness testimony resumed Wednesday.

 

Prosecutors believe Read backed her SUV into her boyfriend John O’Keefe in 2022 after dropping him off at a party and returned hours later to find him dead. Defense attorneys argue she was a victim of a conspiracy involving the police and they plan, as they did in the first trial, to offer evidence pointing to the real killer.

 

O’Keefe’s mother, Peggy O’Keefe, gave emotional testimony Wednesday about her discovery that her son was dead.

 

Peggy O’Keefe lost her daughter, Kristen, to a brain tumor in 2013, and Kristen’s husband, Stephen Furbush, died of a heart attack shortly thereafter. The pain of of losing another child at a young age was devastating, she said.

 

She cried on the witness stand while relaying the story of seeing her son in the hospital after he was found lifeless in the snow.

 

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