New from Law&Crime: KAREN
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On a january night in two thousand and twenty two, a powerful northeast was blowing into the town of canton masaccio's. But come morning, the fierce blizz paled in comparison to the headline that would soon take the world by storm.

SHE struck him with her motor vehicle SHE had been under the influencing SHE left ed a.

There the local woman Karen reed had been implicated in the mysterious death of her boyfriend, boston police officer john okey, the apparent murder weapon, her S U. V. But this isn't your typical hitt and run the .

water basically appears to be jealousy, combined with drinking theory, that he had nine drinks that night and that he was heavily toxic. There some evidence to support IT, but there is also a whole bunch of ets counter .

red IT was alleged that after an innocent night out for drinks with friends, Karen john got into a lovers coral l. And route to the next location, a house party hosted by another Austin police officer, brian Albert. What happens next depends on who you ask if .

you believe the prosecution. It's because the evidence was so compelling. This was clearly an intention. Al lag in his cause of death was blind force trauma .

with hypothermia. H, I heard I hit him. My, that's what you .

believe this that I heard if you believe the defense theory. However, this was all a cover up. To prevent one of their own from .

going down was IT a cold blooded crime of passion, or a corrupt cover up.

The suggested here is basically that the Albert have really strong connections to police that are sort of presented as this connected, powerful family that really didn't like outsiders. They didn't like the people who were not part of that world, which included care.

Read the, is that they dumped outside in the snow. And they were simply going to say, we never saw me, never came house, and let that be.

That and the handling of evidence left more questions than answers in this not so classic case of who done IT from the scene of the murder.

the processing in the crime scene was a textbook example of how not to do IT.

They should have gone and secured the scene, and they didn't do that .

to the forensics.

What exactly happened that night? I haven't seen enough evidence to really able to affirmatively hang my hat on any single theory .

to the digital footprints.

This became, every single one of those calls was deleted off your phone. T try to the reports according .

to that report. yes. What was actually .

contained on that simply? D, i'd like to know, but people get rid of things for a reason, and that's important.

But IT was the lead investigators testimony that arguably ly catapulted the case of current read into the national spotlight.

So the way that you were gonna make IT cut and dry pretty much just pending on the girl. Who did you mean the girl, by the way, the defendant read only finding .

the fires. For those claiming conspiracy .

to say that it's troubling is to suger code. When police .

ethics were brought into question, IT struck a national nerve .

on both ends. There is a distrust of authority. There is a distrust of police. In this case reads that needed local .

outcry grew louder too.

Hon never seen anything like IT.

Outside the courthouse, droves of supporters gathered daily in support of Karen read.

what in the world is going on in massachuset? The birth place of america? Le, a woman's being eroded and frame for a murder he didn't commit.

Then suddenly the whole world couldn't get enough role playing. His armchair detectives did .

SHE murder him, or is SHE being framed? And the more I dug into IT, the more I felt like I was Alice going down the rabbit hole.

social media became captivated by the sensation, yet true justice for a remarkable man, and the fate of a woman's life hung delicate in the baLance. Would journal keepers death remain a mystery? Could Karen read be convicted for a crime SHE potentially didn't commit? Or is IT possible that a guilty woman could walk free after the ten week trial? Everyone had an opinion.

There's just reasonable doubt dripping off the vine.

The longer this trial has gone on, the more passionate people have gotten. There's a lot going on on social media, a lot of theory sort of floating around about the prosecution, a judge.

Everybody should be upset by this because really, if you're sitting here thinking can read is guilty, then you should be also thinking the geno, he was old, a proper investigation using investigative techniques by officers who are above approach.

And just when you think the end is near, twelve men and women task with the citing the fate of Karen read could not come to a unanimous .

ous decision this trial, it's just a confirmation of just how .

complicated these cases .

line crime presents the most in debt analysis to date of the sensational case, expLoring the divisive theories and more by taking you behind the scenes of both the trial of Karen read and the investigation into geno keeps mysterious death in Karen. You can listen to Karen explosively with a wonderful plus. Join wondering plus in the wondering APP apple podcast or spotify.