Karen Learn Jury Foreman Says FBI Ought to Reopen Investigation

Days after Karen Learn was acquitted of probably the most severe prices she confronted in her second homicide trial, the jury foreman is talking out and calling on the FBI to look into the case and “get justice for John O’Keefe.”

In a brand new interview with The Boston Herald, the foreman – who doesn’t share his title – informed the newspaper that he believes there are nonetheless “so many holes that must be stuffed” within the story and says investigators mustn’t cease wanting into the case.

“Now that the FBI is aware of Karen Learn isn’t a suspect, one thing occurred, and a number of jurors really feel that method,” the foreman informed the Herald.

The foreman says he’s calling on federal investigators to step in as a result of “nobody native must be concerned within the investigation,” given the sufferer’s ties to native police.

“It was lazy police work,” the foreman stated in regards to the preliminary investigation, including that “we must always begin some kind of investigation of what went on in that home.”

Learn, 45, was acquitted final week of killing O’Keefe, her 46-year-old boyfriend, on Jan. 29, 2022, after a high-profile and prolonged second homicide trial, PEOPLE beforehand reported.

O’Keefe, a Boston police officer, was discovered unresponsive within the snow exterior the house of then-Boston police officer Brian Albert in Canton, Mass., the evening he and others have been collectively out at Albert’s home. An post-mortem later revealed that O’Keefe had died from blunt drive trauma and hypothermia.

Learn was accused of drunkenly backing into O’Keefe along with her SUV and leaving the scene. She was arrested in 2022 however maintained her innocence and as a substitute alleged she was the goal of a police cowl up, as her protection attorneys alleged that O’Keefe had been attacked by somebody on the social gathering with whom he had a long-standing disagreement.

The case proved divisive in the area people and made headlines all over the world, resulting in intense media protection. The primary trial led to July 2024 when the decide declared a mistrial following 5 days of deadlocked jury deliberations.

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Learn’s second trial, which ended final week, adopted 4 days of deliberations. Learn was discovered not responsible on prices of second-degree homicide, manslaughter whereas working inebriated and of leaving the scene of bodily damage. She was, nonetheless, discovered responsible of the lesser cost of working inebriated or liquor (OUI) and sentenced after the decision to at least one 12 months of probation.

Because the closing verdicts have been learn, a number of jury members have since spoken out in regards to the case and referred to as for it to be reopened so as to discover who was really accountable for O’Keefe’s demise.

“We simply want to seek out justice for John,” the foreman informed the Herald on Tuesday. “and get his mom some peace.”