The judge blocks the reference of the murder Sandra Birchorus in the second trial of Karen Read

A Massachusetts judge agreed to prohibit references to an unrelated and sloppy murder investigation in the second trial of Karen Read on murder and other accusations in 2022 his Boston police friend, John O’Keefe.

Canton police, a suburb of about 20 miles south of Boston, determined in an inaccurate manner that the death of Sandra Birchmore, February 24, was a suicide before the federal investigators were strangled and accused an officer of Stoughton of his murder.

The FBI arrested the former Stoughton police officer Matthew Farwell, 38, in August in the murder of Birchmore.

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He is accused of treating her since she was a teenager, of maintaining sex for years, then killing her when she told her that she had become pregnant and to stage the murder to look like a suicide.

Canton police were also the first to respond after O’Keefe was insensitive to the house of another Boston police officer on January 29, 2022, during a blizzard.

Local police have collected bloody snow evidence in red solo cups and placed them in a stopping and shopping grocery bag. A canton lieutenant used a leave of leaves to move the snow from the place where the body of O’Keefe had been found. Witnesses were interviewed informally, excluding camera and not in the police station.

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Prosecutor Hank Brennan questions the SGT of the Massachusetts state police. Yuriy Bukhenik during the Karen Read trial at the Norfolk Superior Court on May 8, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (Charles Krupa, AP Pool)

O’Keefe was found dead on the lawn before by Brian Albert. Albert’s brother is a canton police detective.

State police resumed the investigation later during the day. But their involvement was not without controversy. The principal detective was dismissed earlier this year after an internal investigation into non -professional SMS revealed before the court during the first READ trial, which ended with a trial.

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Defense lawyer Alan Jackson contravened the Massachusetts Yuriy Bukhenik State police sergeant during the Karen Read trial before the Norfolk Superior Court on May 8, 2025, in Dedham, Mass. (Charles Krupa, AP Pool)

“Gov. [Maura] Healey should have ordered the overhaul of police training in the state after the debacle of Karen Read 1.0, “said Joseph Giacalone, a retirement sergeant of the NYPD and Professor of Criminal Justice at Penn State Lehigh Valley.” All from the response to the scene by the police officers of the Patrol to the scene to the stage. “”

The two cases prompted the city’s residents to demand an audit in their own police service, and the municipal council hired a company called 5 Stones Intelligence, or 5si.

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The company published its conclusions in a 206 -page report on April 1, on the same day, the selection of the jury began in the new READ trial.

He found no evidence that the canton police had conspired to supervise the reading, but the listeners recommended that all death cases be examined by supervisors in the future.

In the report, 5SI recommended that the canton detectives will follow a “advanced training” in the crime surveys and that all patrol vehicles be equipped with crime scene kits and evidence collection bags. They called for an increase in the budget of the police service.

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Karen Read and John O’Keefe pose on an un dated photo. (Karen Read)

There was also a federal investigation into the treatment of the death of O’Keefe. Reading remains the only person billed.

She faces accusations of second degree murder, driving in hell in a guilty manslaughter and fleeing a fatal accident for allegedly hitting O’Keefe with her SUV Lexus during an argument and leaving him at 12:30 p.m.

She and two friends returned at 6 am and found O’Keefe on the ground, covered in snow that had intensified throughout the day. An autopsy revealed that his cause of death was a trauma to the head and at hypothermia. The way is not determined.

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Former Stoughton police officer Matthew Farwell, on the left, was charged in the murder of Sandra Birchmore. (AP / Imagn)

Read denied having struck O’Keefe at all, pleaded not guilty and suggested that she was supervised by local police and their allies.

She was tried for the first time for the accusations last year, but the jurors took place, and judge Beverly Cannone declared a trial.

Until now, in the new trial, at least one bag of evidence seems to have been poorly labeled, and another had more broken fire leaves than expected. SGT of the Massachusetts state police. Yuri Bukhenik was also toasted about a lack of photographs for evidence and a delay of hundreds of days for certain reports in the investigation.

“If nothing else, they should be taught of documentation, documentation and documentation,” Giacalone told Fox News Digital. “These are not small errors. These are mistakes that will cost you cases, will cause prosecution in the state of Massachusetts and it makes everyone in the criminal justice system.”

Karen read on a booking photo after his arrest in the death of his Boston police friend, John O’Keefe, in 2022. (Massachusetts State police)

“If the Massachusetts has this problem, what about other states?” Said Giacalone. “It is now time to suffocate them in the egg before discovering another Karen Reed disaster.”

Special prosecutor Hank Brennan, a high -level lawyer whose customers included the Gangster Whitey Bulger, was brought to direct the second trial.

He asked Cannone last week to block the defense to raise the Birchmore affair while Read lawyers plan to paint the investigation as unreliable and corrupt. She accepted, unless the “door is opened” by prosecutors.

“They are not going to open this door,” said Linda Kenney Baden, a high -level defense lawyer who clashed against Read’s lawyer Alan Jackson, a prosecutor at the first trial of record producer Phil Spector in 2007. Like Read’s, he ended with a trial.

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However, she said, she believes that there is a lot of room so that jurors find a reasonable doubt.

“They must prove that she hit him,” she said. “It’s really as simple as that. It’s a drunk success.”

Read’s SUV has a broken back fire and police witnesses described the search for matches on the lawn before Albert.

But the defense also played a video of surveillance of the O’Keefe garage which seems to show to support its SUV in its vehicle parked shortly before finding its leftovers with two other women, Kerry Roberts and Jennifer McCabe.

However, the veteran prosecutor congratulated the treatment by Brennan of the case and how he left aside the main witnesses who may have designed the accusation during the first trial and gave the defense less of the maneuver.

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“The way Brennan has tried this affair is that he does not leave bad things, so every time that Alan Jackson goes to what really hurts them, he has no place where to go,” she said.

On the one hand, he left the old Massachusetts State TPR. Michael Proctor outside the list of witnesses of the accusation. Proctor sent a series of coarse, obscene and non -professional text messages on reading and investigation, which led to its dismissal.

He is still on the list of defense witnesses and could be called to the stand later.