Karen Read lands lucrative book deal while witnesses face continued harassment after acquittal

SPECIAL IMAGES Life is moving on for all the key players except John O'Keefe's family after a Massachusetts jury unveiled his former girlfriend Karen Read not guilty of all homicide-related charges in his death outside a midnight house party during a blizzard on Jan O'Keefe's niece and nephew who he took in after their parents died are orphaned for a second time Read has a book deal and a TV series about her saga in the works But she's also facing a wrongful death lawsuit which requires a lesser standard of guilt to hold her liable Her civil group filed a motion to dismiss earlier this week KAREN READ ASKS MASSACHUSETTS COURT TO THROW OUT WRONGFUL DEATH LAWSUIT AFTER MURDER ACQUITTALAn outside inquiry by the FBI determined no alternate persons and dispelled charges of corruption leveled at local and state police But prosecutors and investigators who led the circumstance are facing a reckoning The Albert family former owners of the property where Read and two other women identified O'Keefe dead under a sheet of snow just celebrated a wedding Jennifer McCabe a key witness in both of Read's trials and one of the women with Read that morning is the new bride's aunt FAMILY OF SLAIN BOSTON COP JOHN O'KEEFE FUMES AS EX-GIRLFRIEND KAREN READ WALKS FREE 'SICKENING'At the wedding attendees pitched in to hire private shield after Read's supporters allegedly circulated the venue online Local police made their presence known too A marked SUV was parked at the foot of the church procedures Kerry Roberts a friend of O'Keefe's who was also present with McCabe and Read when they determined his body narrated Fox News Digital she is among the spectators facing an ongoing harassment campaign along with the Alberts the McCabes and O'Keefe's immediate family I don't know why they're making Jen McCabe a villain she announced in a phone interview All she did was answer the same phone call I did Karen called her She didn't call Karen It's so stupid and bizarre KAREN READ MURDER TRIAL NIECE REVEALS 'FRANTIC' BEHAVIOR ON MORNING BOSTON OFFICER WAS LOCATED DEADThe victim's mother Peggy O'Keefe is dealing with harassment of her own including a woman seen dancing on video at the foot of her driveway after Read's acquittal Roberts mentioned the Norfolk District Attorney's Office stated her to stop contacting their witness advocate after the trial even as strangers continue to throw things at her house call her family murderers in the supermarket and mock her children We put our a--es on the line for three and a half years two trials to help the state of Massachusetts and you're not going to help us when we're being harassed she mentioned It's not worth it to put my family through ever again and not be protected at all It's sick It's absolutely sick There's an ongoing witness intimidation matter against Aidan Kearney a Canton blogger who goes by the name Turtleboy but while Roberts is not one of his alleged casualties she says she faces rude comments and other harassment from random members of the district KAREN READ'S LAWYERS IDENTIFY EXACT MOMENT PROSECUTION 'LOST THE CASE' IN MURDER TRIALAfter baseball games kids on the group opposing her son might tell him Free Karen Read while lining up to shake hands she mentioned She filed a complaint against her mailman who allegedly muttered a vulgarity into her doorbell camera when he saw a Justice for John O'Keefe sign at her house Now someone else delivers her letters My message to people is don't ever be a witness she reported If this happens to you you're not gonna be protected at all DEFENSE HAMMERS 'RIDICULOUS' EVIDENCE IN KAREN READ CLOSING SAYS SITUATION IS 'COOKED'Read's lead defense lawyer Alan Jackson returned to Los Angeles in time for the Fourth of July holiday where he was seen cruising in a Shelby Cobra replica powered by a Stroker he described as a fire-breathing dragon It's taking a while to come down he described Fox News Digital But I'm slowly getting back into my rhythm He already has another deadly crash matter lined up the defense of Fraser Bohm a -year-old from Malibu facing four counts of murder in a high-speed wreck that killed four sorority girls from Pepperdine University in October SIGN UP TO GET TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTERBohm is due back in court next month after Jackson solicited for more time to prep a defense for his new client Michael Proctor a former homicide detective with the Massachusetts State Police lost his job but may still resurface in the upcoming murder trial of Brian Walshe who is accused of killing his wife Ana outside Boston Her remains have not been unveiled Proctor worked that episode too and Walshe's lawyers have argued his presence tainted the assessment That trial is scheduled to kick off in October FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME BAND ON XState police fired Proctor after he sent lewd texts about Read to his friends officially faulting him for sharing law enforcement sensitive information with civilians and for drinking on the job His former supervisor Yuri Bukhenik was also reassigned in the wake of Read's second trial out of the homicide unit in Norfolk County and to an administrative post in Boston according to Boston Read's defense alleged a cover-up by state and local police alternately insinuating they got lazy in the scrutiny and failed to do a thorough job or outright framed her Hank Brennan the high-powered defense attorney hired as a special prosecutor to lead Read's second trial reportedly raked in more than for his work according to the Boston Herald That's a reasonable sum for a private lawyer commented retired Massachusetts judge and Boston College law professor Jack Lu but also much more than a deputy district attorney on the state payroll would have made Presumably annually Brennan put in long days and likely worked through weekends while keeping his private practice open at the same time he added And while in a rare society declaration he slammed the prevalence of witness intimidation and apologized for not securing a conviction O'Keefe's supporters indicated they appreciate his work on the development The jury pool was entirely tainted is all I can say Roberts stated Fox News Digital Hank did so much work He was a genius He really was Nobody could ve gotten it done Which is wicked sad