Netflix drops trailer for documentary: ‘The Trials of Karen Read‘
Karen Read’s two dramatic murder trials are now the subject of a Netflix documentary series, a new trailer for which was released on Monday.
Massachusetts investigators and the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office argued Read hit her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, with her Lexus SUV outside of a home in Canton during a snowstorm on Jan. 29, 2022, following a night of drinking. Read’s attorneys said someone else was responsible for killing O’Keefe and that Read is the victim of a law enforcement cover-up.
The Netflix documentary series is set to be released on Nov. 23, exclusively through that streaming platform. It boasts “exclusive interviews with those who were inside the house” along with jurors and people who knew O’Keefe.
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Read was tried twice in consecutive years on a charge of second-degree murder. Her first trial ended with a hung jury, which told the judge several times that it was unable to reach a unanimous verdict.
Her legal team attempted to fight a second trial, but the courts found that double jeopardy protection did not apply because no verdict was recorded in the case.
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Following the second trial, she was found not guilty in June 2025 of second-degree murder but convicted on a lesser charge of drunken driving.
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Since the verdict ended her second trial, Read and her related cases have continued to drag on.
She and Aidan Kearney, the blogger known as “Turtleboy,” are the defendants in a defamation lawsuit filed by witnesses who testified during her criminal trials, Jennifer McCabe, Brian Albert, Colin Albert and Brian Higgins.
Kearney was a vocal advocate for Read’s claims, and prosecutors alleged that the two communicated about the case, sometimes through third parties. Kearney still faces witness intimidation cases stemming from the events.
Read and the two Canton bars where she and O’Keefe went before his death are the plaintiffs in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by O’Keefe’s family.
Read also filed her own lawsuit against Massachusetts State Police and the Canton Police Department. Citing numerous inappropriate messages attributed to investigators, Read’s team claims the agencies “negligently permitted virulent misogynists and bigots to target her will answer for what they built, what they concealed and what they did to her.”
Last year, Read also brought alawsuit alleging that others were responsible for the death of her boyfriend and that investigators failed to pursue those leads. That case names investigators and witnesses who testified in her criminal trials as defendants.
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