The repetition of Karen Read remains a global story

The public prosecutor claims that on a snow -covered night in January 2022 Read met her friend, the Boston police officer John O'keefe, with her car and died in the cold in the canton. Read and her defense team said that she was innocent and claimed that O'keefe is a victim of a cover -up.

Why do so many people take care of? “It is about a police officer and the possibility of misconduct by the police or even a cover -up,” said Laurel Ahnert, deputy teaching professor at Northeastern University, who taught a class about true crimes. “People are attracted to a story that confirms their priors, and this story has the potential to confirm our worst fears from the corruption of the police.”

A jury was not able to achieve a judgment during the court proceedings last summer, which asked the judge to declare a Mistrial and to organize a resumption of the past week. Read three counts: Murder second degree, homicide, while he operated under the influence and left the location of a crash that led to death.

Interest in the case rose last year, and important news agencies now offer frequent reporting. The Associated Press has the opening days of the live streams of the Experiment and CNN has a Live blog and daily reporting So that readers can follow the case. “Karen Read” was presented on the Trends on the websites of CNN, ABC and FOX News last week.

It was also a highly discussed topic in Tikkok, in which many users offer updates and their own theories about what actually happened in Canton that night. Ahnert said that the consumers of the case can speculate and theorize what happened due to the way the case was abused by the law enforcement authorities.

“The audience are not only passive consumers in history, but also active, participatory participants in the narrative, while they examine and share their version of history online,” she said. “History accepts its own life.”

Reads own media appearances, including a two-part profile in Vanity Fair, episodes to true crime programs such as Dateline and 20/20 as well as streaming from Docu series on Max have made the case as an international sensation. Clips of these interviews were even played in court to use their own words against them.

There is still a robust media presence during the exam. All five local TV news channels in Boston as well as national outlets such as Court TV and Fox News have parked Vans and set up cameras. Read Reporter and Camera Crews Swarming and her lawyers when she admits and leaves the courthouse.

In order to get a place, Reporters had to arrive before dawn before the dawn had a chance for 10 available slots that the officials had awarded based on First Comes-First-Serve-based. (There were reports of verbal and physical disputes between the media members last year.)

For the repetition, the court heads a lottery among registered media members, the local news agencies as well as independent media figures such as Aidan Kearney, the blogger called “Turtlyboy”, whose obsession with the fall and belief in reads has contributed to increasing the murder case to a thriller with bona fide. (Kearney got his own national profile in the Atlantic last month.)

Among the last week in the small courtroom were reporters from the Globe, the Boston Herald, WCVB Channel 5, WFXT Boston 25, the River Reporter and Kearney case as well as an AP photographer and jurisdiction video.

During the first trial, swarms of mostly pro-Read supporters were able to moisten as a jubilation of the court in Dedham. With a strict buffer zone of 200 feet, the supporters are now forced to remain far from the courthouse.

About two dozen, many in pink shirts and “framed” or “Free Karen Read Signs”, were far away from the Hundreds of demonstrators last summer.

“This year it's like a ghost city,” said Kat Fotheringham, 50, a supporter of Karen Read who works for a tech company and traveled by North Carolina to stand in front of the courthouse. “It is as if the city has a Brazilian wax.”

Some of the read trailers had set up the road in a parking space on the street from the courthouse with a large loudspeaker in the middle in a parking lot to listen to the attempt. Some looked at their attempts, with a woman even putting a tripod.

Foheringham and others read who read that they had largely received information about the case of podcasts and “Lawtubers” – lawyers who follow legal cases on YouTube – like Melanie Little, a New York lawyer with over 86,000 subscribers to their YouTube channel. However, you have also set the most important interviews from Read, including the Max Documentation and the Specials on Dateline and 20/20.

“I look a lot as I drive while I clean while I cook,” said Elizabeth Manka, 50, a physiotherapist from Burlington, who believes that reading is innocent. “My husband would say that it borders an unhealthy obsession.”

Aidan Ryan can be reached at ayan.ryan@globe.com. Follow him @Aidanitzyan.