Editor's note: This page summarizes testimony in the Karen Read trial for Thursday, May 29. For the latest updates on the Karen Read retrial, visit USA TODAY's coverage for Friday, May 30.

Karen Read’s defense team of heavy-hitting attorneys is looking to tear down the prosecution’s murder case against her after the state rested its case this week. Read is accused of killing her ...

Massachusetts murder suspect Karen Read returned to court Monday for her trial in the death of her former boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, as DNA experts and a digital forensic ...

Editor's note: This page summarizes testimony in the Karen Read trial for Wednesday, May 28. For the latest updates on the Karen Read retrial, visit USA TODAY's coverage for Thursday, May 29.

A former medical examiner testified Tuesday during Karen Read's second murder trial that she did not think hypothermia contributed to Read's boyfriend's death, contradicting the official autopsy ...

The Karen Read trial is now in the hands of the defense, which called its first witness Friday. The prosecution rested its case in the high-profile Massachusetts murder trial on Thursday after ...

Karen Read answered several questions from reporters outside of Dedham’s Norfolk Superior Court on Thursday after the prosecution in her murder retrial rested its case. Read, 45, of Mansfield ...

Testimony continued Friday in the murder trial of Karen Read, who is accused of backing her SUV into her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe, and leaving him for dead. The defense ...

Mass. State Police forensic scientist Maureen Hartnett looks over photo evidence under cross examination at the Karen Read case at Norfolk Superior Court, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Dedham ...

The Karen Read trial continued today with a 17th day of witness testimony from two Massachusetts State Police crime lab analysts, and a message from the judge to jurors about how they conduct ...

The Karen Read retrial returned to examining physical evidence in the case after multiple days examining a lack of professionalism by certain case investigators. The day also included testimony ...