What to know about Karen Read’s murder retrial in the death of her police officer boyfriend, John O'Keefe

Karen Read's murder trial in the death of Boston police officer John O'Keefe ended with a hung jury. Jury selection in her retrial starts this week.

During a long and widely watched trial last year, Karen Read was prosecuted for murder in the 2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe.

The trial, which included allegations of police misconduct and of a wide-ranging conspiracy among law enforcement officers to frame Read in the killing, ended in a hung jury.

Jury selection in Read’s retrial on charges of second-degree murder, motor vehicle manslaughter while driving under the influence and leaving the scene of a collision causing death is set to begin Tuesday in a courtroom outside Boston.

Here’s what to know about the case.

O’Keefe, 46, had been a police officer for 16 years. He was found unresponsive on a snowy January morning outside the suburban home of Brian Albert, a now-retired Boston police sergeant.

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