"Lifetime became the first to debut its scripted take on the legal saga Saturday, just months after Read walked free on murder and manslaughter charges in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe. With Katie Cassidy in the lead opposite Luke Humphrey as O'Keefe, the film does an admirable job recreating the bar scenes and home surveillance footage that should be familiar sights to anyone who tuned in for Read's 2024 mistrial and 2025 retrial."
"For the uninitiated, the state's case against Read wove a theory about a night of bar-hopping gone horribly awry. To hear prosecutors tell it, Read's relationship with O'Keefe had begun to sour weeks before the couple met for drinks at a bar in Canton on Jan. 28, 2022. Hours later, Read backed her SUV into O'Keefe in a drunken rage while dropping him off at an afterparty sometime after midnight, prosecutors alleged."
Lifetime premiered a scripted dramatization of Karen Read's legal saga months after Read was acquitted of murder and manslaughter in the death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe. Katie Cassidy stars opposite Luke Humphrey, and the film recreates bar scenes and home surveillance footage familiar from the 2024 mistrial and 2025 retrial. Prosecutors alleged Read backed her SUV into O'Keefe after a night of bar-hopping on Jan. 28, 2022, while defense argued she was framed in a law enforcement coverup. After a hung jury in 2024 and a retrial, Read was found not guilty of major counts and received a misdemeanor for drunk driving. The film compresses over three years into under 90 minutes and takes liberties with events.
Read at Boston.com
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