Karen Read and her attorney Alan Jackson launch script, book projects

Joe Dwinell, Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald on Jun 28, 2025

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BOSTON — Karen Read and her Los Angeles-based defense attorney Alan Jackson aren’t parting ways just yet.

The two, fresh off an OUI verdict, are set to release new details in the blockbuster murder case as part of a scripted project with LBI Entertainment, Variety reports.

The production, Variety adds, has “exclusive access” to Read and Jackson where “crucial aspects of the story that have remained undisclosed to the public” will be unveiled.

“This isn’t just a legal thriller,” LBI Production Head Julie Yorn told Variety. “It’s about what happens when a single voice refuses to be silenced.”

Yorn added she’s determined to tell Read’s story with “urgency, nuance, and care.” She did not divulge what new “aspects” of a story that has been piked apart will be.

A book project by Read and Jackson is also in the works, the magazine added.

Read, of Mansfield, had faced up to life in prison if convicted of second-degree murder, the top-level offense charged against her. She was also charged with manslaughter while operating a motor vehicle under the influence of liquor and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death.

Prosecutors accused Read of backing up into John O’Keefe, her Boston police boyfriend of two years, with her SUV, leaving him to freeze and die on the front yard of a 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.

In a stunning decision, the jury in her retrial voted unanimously to only convict Read of drunken driving sparing her any jail time.

The jury foreman told the Herald he’s urging the FBI to reopen the case to solve so many holes in the investigation that have still not been answered.

The first mystery, he added, is why didn’t investigators scrub the house at the murder scene at 34 Fairview Road in Canton?

“If that body was on my front steps, I know my house would have been stormed,” the juror, who is Black and grew up in Boston’s Jamaica Plain, said. “The texts from Trooper Proctor — ‘bitch’ and ‘(expletive)’ — also showed a serious bias, yet I had to put my personal opinion aside.”

Read never testified and Jackson never said if he knows more about what went on inside that house.