凯伦·里德于周二到达法庭她第二次谋杀审判的第一天她的辩护团队坚称她是无辜的，称她是拙劣的调查和执法掩盖的受害者。
然而，检察官指控说，2022年1月，一名醉酒和愤怒的读者故意在另一名警官家的聚会外将她的SUV撞向她的男友波士顿警官约翰·奥基夫，并让他死于暴风雪中。
里德对包括二级谋杀、酒后驾驶车辆和离开导致死亡的车祸现场等指控拒不认罪。
周三上午，奥基夫的终身好友、庭审的关键证人之一凯丽·罗伯茨(Kerry Roberts)接受了《早安美国》(Good Morning America)的独家采访，她表示，她之所以直言不讳，是因为她认为人们已经忘记了奥基夫是这起案件的受害者。
“我认为人们已经基本上忘记了约翰，”罗伯特在“GMA”采访中告诉ABC新闻的马特·古特曼。“他是受害者。他失去了生命。他不会回来了。”
这里德的初审法官宣布审判无效2024年7月1日，在陪审团表示无法在第五天的审议中达成一致共识后。罗伯茨也在第一次审判中作证，尽管她没有被盘问。
罗伯茨于周二出庭作证，并将于周三继续作证，她是检方的关键证人，因为她是暴风雪早上5点第一批打电话找奥基夫的人之一。
罗伯茨告诉美国广播公司新闻，她随后向奥基夫的另一位老朋友布兰登·凯恩转述了那天早上她与里德通话的内容。
“第一个电话是，‘约翰死了。’然后她挂断了电话，”罗伯特告诉“GMA”，尽管奥基夫的尸体还没有找到。“然后她回电说，‘我想他是被犁给撞了。"
检察官将这些电话诬陷为里德承认犯罪，而她的律师则表示，她只是一个担心的合作伙伴，担心出现最坏的情况。
当罗伯茨接里德和詹妮弗·麦凯布时，已经是凌晨时分，外面一片漆黑。詹妮弗·麦凯布是卡伦给奥基夫的另一位朋友，但凯瑞说她并不真正认识她。凯瑞开车送女人们去里德放下奥基夫的房子。
“雪太大了，你都看不见，”罗伯茨说。“当我们开车的时候，凯伦会靠在我们中间，她很疯狂。我是说，她知道约翰失踪了，所以她很着急，我也会这样。然后我们转身拉下美景镇，她看到他在草坪上，而我没有。”
据罗伯茨说，在两名女子给奥基夫表演心肺复苏术之前，罗伯茨和里德从车上跳了下来，直到警察赶到。
“我们去找他，确保他平安到家，”罗伯茨说。“当你找到他时，他并不好，这是非常困难的。”
奥基夫成为了一名警察，就像他的祖父一样，并和他的家人，包括他的妹妹克里斯汀，保持密切联系。当她和她的丈夫在几个月内相继去世时，奥基夫把他的侄子和侄女当成了自己的孩子。罗伯茨说，在此期间，她基本上是他的得力助手。
“就像所有人都在甲板上，”罗伯茨说。“当他们去参加舞蹈表演之类的父女舞会时，我会给他们做头发，拿胸花和胸花。他做得很好。这是我最好的朋友之一”
在里德被捕后的三年里，坎顿镇已经发生了变化，因为邻居们已经表明立场，证人也受到了骚扰。
“这完全取决于你站在哪一边，”罗伯特告诉《GMA》
“我们是约翰最亲密的朋友和家人，我们仍然不能因为这一切而悲伤。在这个马戏团里，一切都失去了，”罗伯茨说。
Key Karen Read murder trial witness Kerry Roberts says victim has been 'forgotten'
Karen Read arrived in court Tuesday for thefirst day of her second murder trialas her defense team maintains her innocence, saying she is the victim of a botched investigation and law enforcement cover-up.
However, prosecutors allege that a drunk and angry Read knowingly slammed her SUV into her boyfriend -- Boston police officer John O'Keefe -- outside of a get-together at another officer's home and left him to die in a blizzard in January 2022.
Read pleaded not guilty to charges including second-degree murder, vehicular manslaughter while operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol and leaving the scene of a collision causing death.
One of the trial's key witnesses, Kerry Roberts, who was O'Keefe's lifelong friend, spoke exclusively to "Good Morning America" on Wednesday morning, saying she is speaking out because she believes people have forgotten O'Keefe was the victim in this case.
"I think people have forgotten John in general," Roberts told ABC News' Matt Gutman in the "GMA" interview. "He is the victim. He's lost his life. He's not coming back."
Thejudge in Read's first trial declared a mistrialon July 1, 2024, after the jury said it was unable to reach a unanimous consensus on the fifth day of deliberations. Roberts also testified in the first trial, though she wasn't cross-examined.
Roberts, who took the stand on Tuesday and will continue testifying Wednesday, is a critical witness for the prosecution because she was among the the first people Read called at 5 a.m. on the morning of the blizzard trying to find O'Keefe.
Roberts told ABC News she then relayed to Brendan Kane, another longtime friend of O'Keefe, the contents of her call that morning with Read.
"The first phone call was, 'John's dead.' Then she hung up," Roberts told "GMA," though O'Keefe's body had yet to be found. "Then she called back and said, 'I think he got hit by a plow.'"
Prosecutors have framed the phone calls as Read admitting to the crime, while her lawyers have said she was just a concerned partner, fearing a worst-case scenario.
It was early morning and dark outside when Roberts then picked up Read and Jennifer McCabe, another O'Keefe friend who Karen had called, but whom Kerry said she didn't really know. Kerry drove the women to the house where Read had dropped O'Keefe off.
"It was so snowy you couldn't see," Roberts said. "And as we were driving, Karen would lean in between us, and she was frantic. I mean, she knew John was missing, so she was frantic about it, as I would be. And then we turned to pull down Fairview, and she saw him on the lawn, and I didn't."
Roberts and Read jumped out of the vehicle where the two women performed CPR on O'Keefe until police arrived, according to Roberts.
"We went to go find him, and make sure he got home OK," Roberts said. "And when you find him and he's not OK, it was, it was pretty hard."
O'Keefe became a police officer, just like his grandfather, and stayed close with his family, including his sister, Kristen. When she and her husband died within months of each other, O'Keefe took his niece and nephew in as his own. Roberts said she acted essentially as his right hand during this period.
"It was like all hands on deck," Roberts said. "When they would go to dance recitals and stuff, father-daughter dances, I would do their hair and get the boutonniere and get the corsage. He did a great job. This was one of my best friends"
In the three years since Read was arrested, the town of Canton has been transformed as neighbors have taken sides and witnesses have been harassed.
"It's all about which side are you on," Roberts told "GMA."
"We're John's closest friends and family, and we still haven't been able to grieve because of all of this. It's all lost on this circus," Roberts said.
