As John O’Keefe’s dying nears its third anniversary, his accused killer Karen Learn says she’s “America’s happiest murder defendant,” pointing to her innocence and the help she’s garnered.
Learn can also be slamming O’Keefe’s household for arguing that she struck her Boston police officer boyfriend of two years along with her automobile and left him to die in a serious snowstorm in Canton with out holding proof that she mistreated him whereas he was alive.
In an explosive second article of its two-part collection on the case, Self-importance Honest broke down how Learn and the O’Keefes have reduce ties for the reason that fateful early morning of Jan. 29, 2022, with Learn responding to the household’s criticisms.
O’Keefe, a 16-year Boston police veteran, died on the age of 46 that morning, shortly after Learn discovered his bloody physique lined in snow on the entrance garden of 34 Fairview Rd., in Canton – a property his BPD colleague Brian Albert owned on the time.
Her protection attorneys counter that outdoors actors killed O’Keefe and conspired with state and native police to border her for his homicide.
“I have mourned and cried over John O’Keefe, but that is not productive now,” Learn informed {a magazine} reporter who spent three days along with her in August. “I don’t feel the acute sadness … We weren’t married. The public is now hearing a lot for the first time, but they have to realize I’ve gone through these stages of grief.”
“I’ve reached the point that—John, if you can hear me—I’ve done everything I can,” Learn added. “I don’t think your family can be saved. They want to see me incarcerated for the rest of my life despite never seeing evidence while you were alive that I mistreated you.”
Learn additionally responded to a Each day Mail headline calling her “America’s Happiest Murder Defendant.”
“If being innocent and enjoying the support and refusing to be down day after day, month after month, year after year makes me America’s happiest murder defendant,” she stated, “then I’m America’s happiest murder defendant.”
Paul O’Keefe, in an interview with WBZ-TV days after Learn’s first trial resulted in a mistrial in July, highlighted how his brother and Learn argued and that the 2 had been getting “towards the end of their relationship.”
Learn admitted to Self-importance Honest she and John O’Keefe argued however defended that she was by no means abusive and neglectful.
In an announcement to Self-importance Honest, the household declared it believes Learn is “liable for John O’Keefe’s death. Unlike most people accused of murder and sued for wrongful death, Karen Read has embraced her celebrity in outsized ways.”
Learn responded to the declare, “First of all, I don’t want to be here. … if you think for a second that anyone has fought harder to find the truth about what happened to John and to enlighten everyone about what happened to John harder than me, you’re wrong.”
Self-importance Honest additionally divulged additional particulars about Learn’s bills all through the case. She owes greater than $5 million in deferred authorized payments, forward of the anticipated second trial in late January.
Learn housed her protection staff – attorneys David Yannetti, Alan Jackson and Elizabeth Little – in the identical lodge all through the nine-week trial and “negotiated rates with two Uber drivers to shuttle the team to and from court.”
“She paid $1.2 million before and during the court proceedings between bails; accommodating, feeding, and transporting three lawyers; and hiring private investigators and experts,” the journal reported. “For that, she used her savings, about $500,000 from her since-depleted legal fund, and $400,000 donated by friends and family.”
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