Karen Read made over 50 unresolved calls to John O'Keefe

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"John, I hate you." Karen read allegedly, her boyfriend, Boston policeman John O'Keefe, was said to have walked into his house one minute without him.

Massachusetts investigators said that day was the morning of his death and she had just driven there from the crime scene.

Special Attorney Hank Brennan played a series of voicemails that allegedly left to read after authorities said she hit him with an SUV and left him dead in a snowstorm.

Massachusetts state soldier Nicholas Guarino returned to the stands Tuesday to read through text messages and phone calls between Read and O'Keefe from the evening of January 28, 2022 to the next morning, when Read was the three women who found him.

Guarino said records show Red's phone was connected to Wi-Fi at 12:36 a.m. on the 29th at O'Keefe's home. Read made more than 50 calls that morning, but no voicemails were left each time.

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At 12:37 a.m., she left the first of eight voicemails to O'Keefe.

"John, I hate you," she said in a recording recorded in court.

At that time, prosecutors accused O'Keefe of fatal damage to the back end of Redd's Lexus SUV and died with the power of the blizzard.

At 12:41 a.m., she left a second voicemail with no spoken language. Guarino said it could be a "butt dial".

She texted him twice, "I want to go home" and "See you later".

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Karen Read and John O'Keefe (Contributed by Karen Read)

In the third voicemail at 12:59 am, read it, "John, I'm here with your f--child, no one knows f---where you are, where you are."

O'Keefe adopted his nieces and nephews, their parents, sister and brother-in-law died within a few months.

The fourth language email that left after a minute was a long time for a second, without words.

She then texted that she returned to Mansfield where she lived at the time, where his child was “only.”

However, she seemed to have been lying to leave his house.

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During her trial in Dedham, Massachusetts, she showed videos of evidence about Karen Read’s interview with TV stations during the trial. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald via AP/Pool)

At 1:10 a.m., she left her fifth language email.

"Yes, it's 1 in the morning. I'm with your niece and nephew, you're f --- in forvert." "You're a pervert."

At 1:17 a.m., she accused him of cheating on her with another woman.

She said: "You are a loser, go f --- yourself."

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Listen: Karen Read's voicemail

She stopped calling him between 1:18 and 4:38 a.m. and answered again when the call was not answered.

Grace Edwards, a criminal defense attorney in Essex County, has been clinging to the case, telling Fox News Digital that the calls were read as people who didn't know O'Keefe's death at the time.

"They are a hysterical girlfriend, crazy," she said. "She doesn't know what's going on."

At 5:23 a.m., she left him the seventh voicemail. She kept on the phone until she left the eighth voicemail at 6:03 a.m., and Jennifer McCabe and Kerry Roberts found O'Keefe unresponsive outside 34 Fairview Road.

The view shows that the body of former Boston policeman John O'Keefe was found in January 2022, at 34 Fairview Road, Canton, Massachusetts. His girlfriend Karen Read was tried for murder at the time. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)

"I think there are a lot of loopholes in the prosecution," said David Gelman, a Philadelphia-area defense attorney. "There are a lot of reasonable doubts."

He said the phone showed Red didn't know O'Keeffe was dead until she arrived on the scene, which was a gift from the defense.

"However, the Devil's advocate is that she is doing so to cover up her tracks and be counted."

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The court began Tuesday with former Guangzhou Police Lieutenant Paul Gallagher on a second day of interrogation in the stands.

Read’s lead defense attorney Alan Jackson roasted him about routine investigative steps not taken on the morning of January 29, 2022, including searching the house and asking for nearby for surveillance videos. The house across the street belongs to another state police lieutenant who has an Alo family security camera on his front door.

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Massachusetts Cavalry Lieutenant Kevin O'Hara testified at the Karen reading trial on May 6, 2025. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald via AP/Pool)

Gallagher authorized the use of a red solo cup to collect blood evidence and then store it in a supermarket paper bag. He testified that he could not verify the chain of guardianship for evidence.

Jackson noted that when Read’s SUV and Solo Cup were given to state police, the unsealed bag was only inches from the damaged taillights.

He also used a leaf blower to move snowfall, which fell on O'Keefe's blood and damaged cocktail glass on the lawn.

Gallagher testified that he had a professional and personal relationship with Brian Higgins, a member of federal alcohol, tobacco, guns and explosives, who spent his afternoon work at Alberts’ home at the time of O'Keefe’s death.

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Karen Read showed at the trial in Dedham, Massachusetts on May 6, 2025. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald via AP/Pool)

Massachusetts Police Department Lieutenant Kevin O'Hara, also his search team restored O'Keefe's shoes from the scene after 5 p.m. on January 29.

O'Hara's team prioritized searching for streets, fearing that the plow would emerge and disturb the evidence. Due to weather conditions and other factors, they left without searching for the lawn, but he offered to return later. He said he did not receive a callback.

Under cross-examination, O'Hara testified that he did not secure the scene when he arrived, and members of the Guangzhou Police Department arrived during the search. However, he said they did not participate.

John O'Keefe (Boston Police Department)

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Forensic meteorologist Robert Gilman explained the blizzard conditions and heavy snow recorded between January 28 and January 29.

Canton Police Lieutenant Charles Rae testified that Brennan performed a dashboard video at O'Keefe's address around 8:23 a.m. on January 29 to play the Dashcam video. It seemed to show damage to Read's taillights, which parked in the lane in front of the vehicle marked on his arrival.

Read pleaded not guilty to the charges of murder, murder and escape from the scene, and she completely denied O'Keefe. If convicted, she may face life in prison.