Boston cop's murder suspect Karen Read cries as she describes finding him with 'blood dripping from his face'

Karen Read, a fishy successful her boyfriend's murder, cried arsenic she described uncovering her spouse crumpled successful a 'heap' connected the tract with a bloodied look the nighttime of his death. 

Read, 44, who claimed she's been framed for the execution of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, sat down with Dateline to sermon the infinitesimal she recovered her fellow connected January 29, 2022. 

'I spot him immediately, I spot his assemblage immediately,' she told Dateline's Dennis Murphy successful an exclusive clip obtained by DailyMail.com of Friday's upcoming episode. 'It was windswept tract and it was conscionable a heap.' 

'And that was him?' Murphy, who has been with the amusement since 1994, asked arsenic Read nodded. 

'It didn't look similar John,' she said, stumbling implicit her words. 'But I knew it was him. I knew it was thing that didn't beryllium connected that lawn.' 

John, who is 6-foot-2 and weighed 220 pounds, was found astir 6am extracurricular a house Read had dropped him disconnected astatine aft an afterparty. 

The fiscal expert and erstwhile Bentley University professor faces second-degree execution and manslaughter charges for allegedly backing implicit him with her SUV successful a snowstorm aft an argument. 

Her defence alternatively claims O'Keefe, 46, was beaten up by radical astatine the enactment and thrown extracurricular wherever helium died connected the lawn.

'Karen Read was framed. Her car ne'er struck John O'Keefe. She did not origin his decease and that means idiosyncratic other did,' Read's defence lawyer David Yannetti said successful his opening connection successful May. 

Read woke up successful a panic astir 4:30am erstwhile she discovered her fellow hadn't made it location and called Jennifer McCabe, a person of O'Keefe's whom helium had been drinking with the nighttime before. 

They and a pistillate named Carrie drove to the house, wherever Read told her companions that helium was 'right there' and they told her she was 'hysterical.' 

'We're going slow, due to the fact that it's atrocious weather, but Carrie doesn't halt the car,' Read told Murohy. 'So I leap retired of the rider broadside and I ran implicit there. 

'His eyes were swollen unopen and helium had humor dripping retired of his nose.' 

Read had attempted to CPR, but was unsuccessful.  

When Murphy asked if O'Keefe had been live erstwhile she recovered him, she hesitated earlier saying: 'He seemed similar helium could be.'

First responders who tended to O'Keefe connected the scene admitted the Boston bull could person been beaten to death.

Two cops and 2 firefighters who were among the archetypal connected the country that fateful greeting and they testified connected the 2nd time of the proceedings successful May. 

Initially, Timothy Nuttall, a Canton firefighter who treated O'Keefe astatine the scene, said helium couldn't accidental whether the injuries — including a hematoma implicit his close oculus — came from a fight.

But erstwhile pressed by Read's lawyer Alan Jackson, Nuttal acknowledged the injuries were accordant with getting beaten up. 

A cardinal portion of the prosecution's lawsuit is that Read fundamentally admitted to the transgression astatine the country by yelling 'I deed him!' implicit and over, on with 'this is my fault. I did this'.

Prosecutors besides alleged Read said 'could I person deed him? Did I deed him?' and 'what if he's dead? What if a plow deed him? I don't retrieve thing from past night, we drank truthful overmuch I don't retrieve anything.' 

Read's defence was capable to get some cops to admit they ne'er heard Read accidental she deed O'Keefe.

The defence besides utilized the grounds from the constabulary and firefighters to rise doubts much broadly astir the investigation.

They were capable to get Canton constabulary officers Steven Saraf Stephen Mullaney to admit they ne'er saw pieces of breached taillight astatine the scene.

Prosecutors allege the fragments were recovered adjacent O'Keefe's assemblage and are impervious that Read backed her SUV into O'Keefe. She says it was breached arsenic she near her location that greeting successful a panic to look for him.

When constabulary and paramedics arrived, they recovered Read inactive trying to revive her boyfriend, her look covered successful humor from giving him mouth-to-mouth.

All of the witnesses successful their grounds described Read arsenic distraught and screaming and that O'Keefe had nary pulse and wasn't breathing.

Officer Saraf and Nuttall were some asked astir their claims of Read saying she deed O'Keefe.

Defense attorneys connected Tuesday attempted to discredit Saraf and rise doubts astir the integrity of the probe by pointing retired mistakes made successful the constabulary dispatch log, including the incorrect code wherever O'Keefe's assemblage was found.

They besides pointed retired that Saraf ne'er wrote successful his constabulary study that Read said, 'This is my fault,' lone that she screamed, 'Is helium dead?'

In response, Saraf said yes, but erstwhile Jackson tried to suggest Saraf's representation of that greeting was evolving, Saraf said that the discrepancy betwixt what helium initially wrote and what helium aboriginal testified astatine the proceedings was 'an oversight.' 

The defence squad besides tried to rise doubts astir what Nuttal heard, suggesting helium was excessively focused connected redeeming O'Keefe's beingness to perceive conversations astir him.

The proceedings ended successful July with a hung jury.