Boston 'cop killer' Karen Read poses for Vanity Fair shoot as she insists she was framed over lover's murder

Following a hung assemblage verdict, Boston 'cop killer' Karen Read has explained successful a boundary-less question and reply 'there's thing I'm acrophobic of' arsenic she awaits a caller trial.

The 44-year-old from Boston made nationalist headlines aft she was accused of ramming into her boyfriend pinch her SUV and leaving him to dice successful a snowstorm successful January 2022.

Read's account, accompanied by glamorous photos and elaborate successful nan celebrated intermezo mag Vanity Fair, shares her position of what transpired and her belief of alleged corruption surrounding nan case. 

'I’m not backing down now,' Read told nan publication. 'As scary arsenic a imaginable condemnation is, I will spell to jailhouse for thing I didn’t do earlier I plea out. 

'I will ne'er springiness them that win.'

Her boyfriend, 46-year-old John O'Keefe, was a Boston constabulary officer, who was dropped disconnected connected nan nighttime of his decease astatine different constabulary officer's home for a nighttime of much drinking and partying. 

Worried aft he grounded to return home, Read said she drove backmost to serviceman Brian Albert's location to find her fellow bloodied and covered successful snowfall connected nan beforehand lawn. He was later pronounced dormant due blunt unit trauma to nan caput and hypothermia.

In nan question and reply pinch Vanity Fair, Read shared her costly ineligible team's belief that 'not only didn't termination O'Keefe, but that she is simply a unfortunate excessively of a crooked territory attorney, assemblage tampering and corrupt rule enforcement.'

Four different rule enforcement bureaus person been progressive successful Read's case, including nan Massachusetts State Police, nan Canton police, nan Boston constabulary and nan Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Read's ineligible squad has claimed that constabulary moved excessively quickly connected proving Read's alleged guilt little than 12 hours aft O'Keefe was declared dormant erstwhile they seized Read's car and phone, she told VF.

Just 3 days later Read was taken into constabulary custody. 

Read besides commented connected 'unprofessional and regrettable' texts exchanged betwixt a Massachusetts State Police Trooper, Michael Proctor and his friends aft her arrest. 

The texts read: 'There will beryllium superior charges brought connected nan girl… She’s a whack occupation c***. Zero chance she skates. She’s f****d.'

Later successful nan chain, different texter asked if nan homeowner would 'receive immoderate s**t' arsenic well, to which Proctor responded: 'Nope. Homeowner’s a Boston bull too.'

Then connected February 2, Read's famed attorney, David Yannetti, received an incriminating telephone from a gravel-toned man claiming Albert and his nephew had beaten up O'Keefe connected January 29.

The mysterious caller continued explaining to Yannetti that erstwhile O’Keefe didn’t aftermath up pursuing nan fight, Albert and an unnamed 'federal agent' put O’Keefe’s assemblage connected nan beforehand lawn.

However, erstwhile Yannetti called nan enigma informer backmost for a much thorough interview, he backtracked, saying he was only speculating based connected photos of O’Keefe successful nan news and yet recanted nan extremity altogether. 

Following nan bombshell claim, Yannetti pointed retired that photos of O’Keefe hadn’t been released astatine nan clip of nan first call.

Yannetti besides recounted really different specifications from nan extremity - including really nan ATF supplier had been drinking astatine nan Albert location that morning, arsenic had Albert’s nephew Colin - besides lined up pinch accusation astir nan case.

Until nan tipster’s call, Read and Yannetti hadn’t known that Colin was astatine nan house, arsenic he later testified he was, because his sanction was not successful constabulary reports, VF reported.

The allegations of corruption only deepen arsenic Read recalled emotion uneasy nan nighttime she dropped him disconnected astatine Albert's location - personification whom O'Keefe looked up to but had ne'er spent value clip pinch earlier receiving nan 'secondhand invitation.'

Read's ineligible squad besides suggests grounds whitethorn person been tampered with; contempt nan truth that her car's correct tail-light had been broken, nary portion of Read’s car aliases tail-light was recovered during a daylight hunt connected January 29 aft snowfall had been cleared from nan yard.

Read says nan surgery ray happened erstwhile she backed retired of O’Keefe’s car shed to hunt for him and bumped into his SUV, which was caught connected O’Keefe’s information camera. 

However, 1 week later, aft aggregate searches from rule enforcement, a Canton constabulary serviceman reported spotting much tail-light pieces successful nan gait from his moving conveyance during a seemingly random drive-by, VF reported.

'It’s nan only actual grounds that connects maine to that crime scene,' Read said. 'No grounds was recovered until they had nan evidence.'

Following her mistrial, owed to a hung jury, Read will person a 2nd proceedings group for January 27.   

In nan clip since nan mistrial, Read, who has been heavy surveilled by nan media, has been accused of trying to fly nan authorities of Massachusetts by nan family of her alleged victim.

The relatives of precocious constabulary serviceman said successful a tribunal filing for nan wrongful decease suit against Read that she has 'one ft retired of Massachusetts,' arsenic reported by nan Boston Herald.

Read put her three-bedroom location successful Mansfield up for waste for $849,900, conscionable 2 weeks aft her lawsuit was declared a mistrial. 

She has besides mislaid her position arsenic a financial expert and adjunct professor astatine Bentley College.