DEDHAM, Mass. — The high-profile Karen Read murder trial ran the Massachusetts State Police hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs.
A public records request showed that the final security bill for Massachusetts taxpayers for the second trial came to $295,050.55.
The first trial came to $258,278, including $208,113 in overtime costs.
Read, 46, was previously charged with second-degree murder after prosecutors alleged she backed over her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV and left him for dead during a snowstorm in Canton in January 2022.
She was acquitted in June 2025 after a mistrial was declared in her first trial the year prior.
Read currently faces a wrongful death civil lawsuit filed by John O’Keefe’s family.
Read has also filed a sweeping civil lawsuit that accuses multiple Massachusetts State Police troopers and several Canton residents of conspiring to frame her.
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