Karen Read files lawsuit saying she was framed for murder in boyfriend's death

Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman who was acquitted in the case of her boyfriend’s death this year, filed a lawsuit alleging that she was framed for the murder in a cover-up plot to keep authorities from finding out how her boyfriend truly died

Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman who was acquitted in the case of her boyfriend’s death this year, filed a lawsuit alleging that she was framed for the murder in a cover-up plot to keep authorities from finding out how her boyfriend truly died.

Read’s case drew national attention after the first attempt to prosecute her in the murder of John O’Keefe failed to win a unanimous jury decision.

But the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office tried again in a trial that cleared Read of murder and manslaughter charges in her boyfriend's death.

Now, Read is suing the investigators in her case and a group of people who were at the house where she last saw O’Keefe.

In a suit filed Monday in Massachusetts, Read alleges the group conspired to frame her for O’Keefe’s murder. That is a theory Read’s attorneys brought up in her defense at trial, but the investigator who led the case, former Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor, denied any wrongdoing.