Karen Read jury foreman appeals to FBI to reopen the murder investigation

Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald on Jun 24, 2025

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BOSTON — The jury foreman in the Karen Read retrial is calling on the FBI to rip open the case and start from scratch.

“There are so many holes that need to be filled,” Juror #1 told the Herald Tuesday afternoon. “Now that the FBI knows Karen Read is not a suspect, something happened, and multiple jurors feel that way.”

Juror #1, who first spoke to the Herald exclusively Friday, is now urging the FBI to “get justice for John O’Keefe.” It has already been announced that federal investigators did look into the web of Canton and Boston police connections to the case and did not charge anyone.

But the foreman, who asked that his name be withheld, said that’s not good enough.

“No one local should be involved in the investigation,” he said Tuesday. “It was lazy police work … and we should start some type of investigation of what went on in that house.”

The FBI’s Boston “declined comment” on the juror’s appeal for a new probe.

As the foreman has already said, the unforgivable fact that investigators didn’t swarm the house at the murder scene on 34 Fairview Road in Canton during a nor’easter is a glaring “red flag” in this murder case.

Prosecutors accused Read, 45, of backing up into John O’Keefe, her 46-year-old boyfriend of two years, with her SUV, leaving him to freeze and die on the front yard of the Canton home where the pair was supposed to continue a night out after the bars closed, in the early snowy morning of Jan. 29, 2022.

The juror, a 45-year-old married father of three who grew up in Boston, says he is haunted by the belief that “something went on inside that house.” He doesn’t want to give up after more than two months put into this trial.

“We just need to find justice for John,” the foreman added, “and get his mother some peace.”

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