Was it a drunken accident… or a dirty setup? On Day 1 of Karen Read’s retrial, jurors heard two completely different stories. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield recaps opening statements and first witnesses. 

Karen Read is once again facing a Massachusetts jury, accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe, by allegedly backing over him with her SUV after a night of drinking. But from the very beginning, this case hasn’t followed the usual script. Instead, it has erupted into a legal firestorm marked by sensational headlines, missing evidence, and a trial so tangled it’s divided an entire community and public opinions online.

Karen Read is facing 3 charges: Second-Degree murder, Manslaughter while operating under the influence, and leaving the scene of a fatal accident. The commonwealth says she hit John O'Keefe with her Lexus SUV in the middle of a snowstorm... then left him to die in the front yard of a fellow former Boston Police Officer’s home on 34 Fairview Rd. in Canton, MA. Karen Read says that house on 34 Fairview Road holds the answers, and that the people inside that house, including cops, are the ones hiding what really happened that night.