KAREN READ ON ABC 20/20

did you say that you were angry with John that night yes could you have been angry enough and slightly drunk because he had annoyed you that in the fit of rage you just backed up and tried to tap him never not to try to kill him but try to to tap him with my 6,000lb fullsize SUV to hit Jon's body with my car no The Sensational murder case ending in a mistrial this summer after the jury was deadlocked prosecutors accusing then 41-year-old Reed of hitting her boyfriend police officer John O'Keefe with her SUV in 20122 after a night of drinking and then leaving him to die in the snow it all started on a Friday night in January 2022 Reed and O'Keefe drinking with their friends at a local bar later that night Reed says she last saw John after dropping him off at an Afterparty at home on Fair viiew Road before going home to sleep she says she awoke in the middle of the night and he wasn't home I called a few of his buddies their wives now I I have an immense sense of dread like a a fright in me that I have not experienced before do you expect to see him like lying on the street drunk yeah or or passed out I was worried he might have gotten hit by a plow Reed meets up with some of John's friends and they all return to the house where the afterparty was and then she spots him in the snow his eyes were shut and he had spots of blood in different areas on his face and he was still not stiff but but still it was cold John O'Keefe is soon declared dead but the investigation is about to explode investigators finding pieces of a tail light they say is from Reed's car at the crime scene I was talking to my best friend on the phone and I said there's a lot of cops circling and I said think I'm going to get arrested Reed was later charged with second deegree murder and pleaded not guilty ABC News granted exclusive access behind the scenes as Reed prepared for her trial hiding out like this you just watch the world pass you by and you're you're going through the motions pun intended and uh but you know it could all end I could be convicted in the months leading up to the trial re's defense team arguing in hearings and filings a stunning new theory that the injuries on J O's body were not consistent with him being hit by a car they claimed she was framed there are people in that house that are actually responsible for his death and who murdered him and there are others in the house who are covering up that murder the prosecution insisting that no one at the party had anything to do with O'Keefe's death saying he never even entered the Fair viiew Road home and they denied that Reed was being framed All Eyes will be on this courthouse in dto the trial is soon drawing national attention and after 29 days deadlocking the jury I'm declaring a mistrial in this case family and friends remembering John the son who always dreamed of being a police officer he was lost in this whole circus and I think none of us want him to be lost so I think we were all waiting for that it to be finally over so we can finally grieve I mean that could be another 18 months it could be another 5 Years and we're going to be there yeah mhm absolutely