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Karen Read — The Lawsuit That Could Take Down Two Police Departments (Part 1: The Complaint)

Karen Read — The Lawsuit That Could Take Down Two Police Departments (Part 1: The Complaint)

This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens) vor 2 Monaten

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Karen Read walked out of her second trial acquitted. Weeks later,
she filed a lawsuit that isn't about whether she killed John
O'Keefe — it's about the two police departments that investigated
her, and what they knew about the men running that investigation
before they ever put them on the case.

This episode: the 87-page complaint Read filed against
Massachusetts State Police and the Town of Canton, the decade of
texts from lead investigator Michael Proctor and Canton Sergeant
Sean Goode that the lawsuit calls a "cesspool of abject hatred,"
and the separate federal complaint — quietly incorporated into
this filing — that lays out, allegation by allegation, how Read's
team says the investigation itself was manufactured.

We're not re-litigating the murder case. Two juries already did
that. This is about what happens after — institutional
accountability, not a verdict.

️ Content warning: this episode includes racist, antisemitic,
homophobic, and misogynistic language quoted directly from a
public court filing, including slurs.