PLYMOUTH, Mass. (Court TV) — Karen Read was back in a Massachusetts courtroom Monday afternoon for a status hearing regarding a wrongful death civil suit filed by the family of John O’Keefe.

Karen Read is pictured at her wrongful death civil hearing on Sept. 22, 2025. (Court TV)

Back in June, Read was acquitted of second-degree murder in O’Keefe’s death. O’Keefe had been a Boston police officer and was dating Read at the time of his death. His body was found on the front lawn of a private home located at 34 Fairview Road in Canton, Massachusetts during a blizzard in the early morning hours of Jan. 29, 2022.

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O’Keefe’s family is also suing C.F. McCarthy’s and The Waterfall, two Canton bars that Read and O’Keefe drank at

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