Massachusetts state police sergeant Yuri Bukhenik testified that he and trooper Michael Proctor were the first police to question Karen Read about the death of her officer boyfriend, John O'Keefe.

Jurors heard from eight voicemails from Read to her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, in the hours before he was pronounced dead during a blizzard in January 2022.

Karen Read‘s retrial began in April 2025. Nearly a year after her first trial ended in a hung jury, the high-profile case has sparked debate over allegations of police misconduct and murder ...

Karen DeYoung is associate editor and senior national security correspondent for The Washington Post. In more than three decades at the paper, she has served as bureau chief in Latin America and ...