(On a personal note, my grandfather worked for the Boston Medical Examiner’s office.
That’s my family’s claim to fame.)
Requiescat in paceto one of Boston’s Finest:
First, a little background is in order.
Despite numerous requests from people asking me to.
First, because it’s such a morbid subject.
Covering people’s tragic deaths isn’t exactly our specialty.
People don’t come to this blog looking for us to crack homicide cases.
They come for laughs and distraction from a sad, broken world.
Next, because it’s so bloody complicated.
Millions of Massholes are experts on this story, and I’m not one of them.
This whole case is Matryoshka Doll of details.
With a terrible death at the center.
With that, let me venture to present the barest of facts of the story.
And I do mean barest.
But summing this up is like trying to do the SparkNotes version of the Old Testament.
–Read woke up early the next morning not knowing where O’Keefe was or what happened to him.
So she returned to the scene with friends where they found his body.
And 911 was called.
A fight broke out.
The family dog attacked O’Keefe, mauling his arm.
He was also beaten and near death.
Albert’s sister-in-law then Googled how long it takes someone to die in the cold.
And security camera footage confirms it.
–MA State Police detective Michael Proctor was put in charge of the investigation.
Despite having a personal relationship with the Alberts.
And intentionally worked to coverup their involvement and frame Read.
Again, these are Karen Read’s defenders talking, not me.
And they are legion.
There have been demonstrations outside the courthouse.
That they filled in the swimming pool and sold the house.
That their 18-year-old son left Bridgewater State University where he was a football player shortly thereafter.
And that Read’s “I hit him!”
was actually more of a “Did I hit him?”
But here’s were it gets truly wild.
Jackson revealed that and other findings from 3074 pages of documents The U.S.
Attorneys Office for Massachusetts turned over last month from the federal probe of her arrest and prosecution.
And none of that was presented before the (state) grand jury, Jackson explained.
Jackson said ten days before OKeefes death, Proctor texted Julie Albert about babysitting his child.
it’s possible for you to - and really should - put aside everything said by paid attorneys.
For the prosecution and the defense both.
And for certain it’s crucial that you ignore anything anyone is saying about this online.
Which is another reason why I’ve given this whole saga a good leaving alone to this point.
There’s no avoiding this any more.
That’s a death knell for the prosecution.
The entire case depends on it.
And so is the Canton Police Sergeant who was first on the scene.
As well as talk about babysitting favors and gifts being exchanged.
Which isn’t the claims of someone on Twitter or the opinion of some blogger.
It’s coming from an investigation by federal law enforcement.
The first duty of these cops was to admit they have a conflict of interest and recuse themselves.
Conflict of interest all over the place.
Career destroyers for all involved.
Even if they have to destroy innocent people to do it.
Anyway, the next hearing on this is scheduled for April 16th.
That gives us just over a month for some of these new findings to come out.
