Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Emily. If you're into morbidology, you're going
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Speaker 1: going all in on the trial that shook the nation,
Speaker 1: the Karen Reed Trial. If you like what you hear,
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Speaker 1: man passed out in the snow?
Speaker 2: I think he's dead? Need like you got to get here, Kaye.
Speaker 2: Was she framed in an elaborate cover up involving corrupt cops?
Speaker 2: Or did she put her car in reverse in a
Speaker 2: fit of rage, hit her boyfriend and leave him for dead.
Speaker 2: This is the story of Karen Reid and why her
Speaker 2: trial captivated and divided the nation. Welcome to the very
Speaker 2: first episode of night Watch, our nighttime segment of my
Speaker 2: new show, Crime House Daily. My name is Katie Ring,
Speaker 2: but if you're here this early, you may know me
Speaker 2: as the Self Defense Girl. If this is our first
Speaker 2: time meeting, hi, I'm Katie. I'm a true crime analyst,
Speaker 2: self defense instructor, and fierce advocate for victims. If you
Speaker 2: found me for my coverage of the Karen read trial
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Speaker 2: favorite part about true crime by far is the investigation,
Speaker 2: So for this show, we wanted to lean into the
Speaker 2: investigative side of true crime. On Crime House Daily, we
Speaker 2: will be covering the cases and trials making headlines now,
Speaker 2: where justice is still in motion, arrests are still being made,
Speaker 2: and where new evidence is still coming to light. This
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Speaker 2: at crime House Daily. Tonight, we're starting from the very beginning,
Speaker 2: me on the crime House couch as we go, all
Speaker 2: hands on deck for Karen Reid. If there was ever
Speaker 2: a personification of the phrase running around like a chicken
Speaker 2: with its head cut off, it would have been Karen Reid.
Speaker 2: The morning of January twenty ninth, twenty twenty two, when
Speaker 2: she realized her boyfriend John O'Keeffe had never returned home
Speaker 2: after their night out. Karen had fallen asleep on the
Speaker 2: couch waiting for him, but when she woke up to
Speaker 2: the realization that he had never come home, she immediately
Speaker 2: knew something was wrong. Her relationship with her boyfriend, John
Speaker 2: O'Keeffe was far from perfect, but she knew one thing
Speaker 2: beyond a shadow of a doubt. John would never leave
Speaker 2: his niece home alone. In fact, the night before, she
Speaker 2: tried to bait him with this fact, to get him
Speaker 2: back home. There are two types of cops in this world.
Speaker 2: Those who are passionate about what they did, who want
Speaker 2: to make a real impact, and who joined the force
Speaker 2: to genuinely serve their communities. And then there are those
Speaker 2: who joined simply because it gives empower over others. John
Speaker 2: O'Keefe was the kind of cop who genuinely wanted to
Speaker 2: make a difference. His grandfather was a cop, and from
Speaker 2: a young age, he knew he wanted to follow in
Speaker 2: his footsteps and serve his community. John had been a
Speaker 2: Boston cop for sixteen years. He was well respected on
Speaker 2: the force, and he was known as the kind of
Speaker 2: guy who just stepped up for his community and the
Speaker 2: people he loved. In fact, despite not having plans of
Speaker 2: ever being a father himself, John took legal guardianship of
Speaker 2: his niece and nephew after his sister and her husband
Speaker 2: passed away just months apart. Taking on the role of
Speaker 2: a single father, John stepped up again after he lost
Speaker 2: one of his best friends and fellow police officers to suicide.
Speaker 2: He accepted the responsibility of becoming his son's godfather, and
Speaker 2: he he was even there for the birth of the
Speaker 2: child It was selfless acts like this that led John's girlfriend,
Speaker 2: Karen Reid to call him the patron Saint of Canton.
Speaker 2: Karen and John originally met in two thousand and four
Speaker 2: and dated for a few weeks, but it wasn't really
Speaker 2: anything serious, more of a fleeting romance that fizzled out
Speaker 2: when Karen got a job in Ireland and life just
Speaker 2: took them separate ways. They didn't stay in touch after
Speaker 2: they ended things, but one fateful Facebook message sent sixteen
Speaker 2: years later rekindled everything. Hey, blast from the Past House Things.
Speaker 2: John sent this line to Karen in twenty twenty, and
Speaker 2: it ended up working and their spark reignited. Karen was
Speaker 2: also successful and very intelligent. She went to Bentley University,
Speaker 2: one of the top universities in Massachusetts. She earned both
Speaker 2: her undergrad degree and master's degree in finance. She became
Speaker 2: a financial analyst for a company called Fidelity Investments, and
Speaker 2: she taught finance at her alma mon. But like John,
Speaker 2: Karen had faced some hardships of her own. In two
Speaker 2: thousand and five, she was diagnosed with Crone's disease and
Speaker 2: went through ten surgeries in eighteen months. Then seven years
Speaker 2: later she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Unlike their first
Speaker 2: relationship in two thousand and four, their second relationship seemed
Speaker 2: like it might work out, and although Karen didn't plan
Speaker 2: on becoming a mom either, she loved John and the kids.
Speaker 2: Karen was able to work from home, and she started
Speaker 2: becoming a solid figure in their lives, watching them and
Speaker 2: cooking for them while John was working. But on January
Speaker 2: twenty eighth, twenty twenty two, when Karen, John and a
Speaker 2: group of friends decided to go out to the local
Speaker 2: bars in Canton, Massachusetts, tragedy struck once again and nothing
Speaker 2: would ever be the same. Thank you so much for
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