Interview with Karen Reed for Vanity Fair magazine. Here are 7 conclusions.

MANSFIELD – Vanity Fair, the magazine that is “the premier publication for the Hollywood obsessive, an insider source for arch-political analysis and a trusted home for incisive narrative journalism,” according to it own descriptionreleased first part from your long-awaited Karen Reid interview.

Who is Karen Reid?

Reed, 44, is charged with second-degree murder, leaving the scene of an accident and manslaughter in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. January 2022. Prosecutors said she hit him with her SUV after a night of drinking and left him to die in a snowstorm.

Reed’s lawyers said she was set up and that O’Keefe was actually killed in the Canton home of another Boston police officer and dragged out.

Vanity Fair interview

Since Reed’s first criminal trial ended mistrial As of July 1, she still had not given any new interviews. According to the article, the Vanity Fair reporter was given unrestricted access to Reed for three days at her Mansfield home, including an overnight stay, a practice the journalist considered unusual.

According to the article, the 2,500-square-foot Mansfield home where the interview took place is currently awaiting sale for $849,900 to help pay for the millions of dollars Reed owes in legal fees from her first trial. Reed’s second trial is currently scheduled for January 27, 2025.

WBZ shares seven new takeaways from the interview. If you are new to this, you may want to read the background. Here.

Karen Read takeaways from the interview.

1. Only Karen Reed and her lawyers spoke on the record to Vanity Fair.

Except for a brief statement from the lawyer representing the Alberts, only Reed and her lawyer, Elizabeth Little, were quoted in this article. Vanity Fair reports that requests for interviews or comment from Norfolk County District Attorney Adam Lally, Jen McCabe, Michael Proctor and others either went unanswered or the parties chose not to comment.

2. The Journal spoke anonymously to two women who say the Alberts’ German shepherd, Chloe, attacked them or their animals twice, and that on at least one occasion the Alberts tried to cover it up.

According to the article, the woman alleged that in 2018, Chloe attacked her goldendoodle during a walk “so aggressively that she was unable to stop the German shepherd until someone came out of Albert’s house and called Chloe’s name.” When she tried to report it to animal control in Canton, she said, “Kevin Albert-Bryan’s brother and a Canton police officer contacted the woman’s husband with a message from the then police chief: ‘How can we make sure this thing… .disappeared? » Another woman says her dog was attacked about three months after O’Keefe’s death (a fact already confirmed at trial), which led to Chloe returning home.

3. Karen Reid believes the pomp and decor and some of the participants at O’Keefe’s funeral were a “farce” there.

Reed did not attend O’Keefe’s funeral due to orders to stay away following her arrest. The Alberts attended the funeral, which included the standard ceremony for a fallen officer, including bagpipes and police from the towns visited. According to the article, Reed viewed “pomp” as “performative.” “All this Irish cop Gone “Bagpipes,” Reed says, trailing off. “There’s nothing sacred about this,” she says. “I think it is the greatest farce, perhaps second only to my trial, that the people who were there in the cold outside the church were nowhere to be found in actually delivering justice to John O’Keefe,” the article said.

4. Karen believes John cheated on her in Aruba.

The couple’s trip to Aruba with friends was the topic of a day of testimony during Reed’s first trial, with Marietta Sullivan claiming she and John hugged in the hotel lobby before Karen shouted obscenities and accused John of fraud. According to the VF article, Reed still believes John kissed Ms. Sullivan. “Reed says O’Keefe and his friends drank beer at 10 a.m. and drank until the sun went down or until a man dropped, whichever came first. She says she caught O’Keefe kissing another woman,” the article said.

5. Karen Reed owes at least $5 million in legal fees.

To counter rumors that Reed has unlimited resources, Reed appeared to tell the reporter that she was millions of dollars in debt and was living on what was left in her 401k. “She still owes more than $5 million in deferred payments for the highly skilled defense team she assembled,” the article said.

6. Karen Reed believes she was set up and will never accept a plea deal.

Reed told the reporter she believed her taillight was intentionally broken by investigators while her car was in their possession and planted at the crime scene as part of a setup. “I won’t back down now,” Reed told Vanity Fair. “As scary as the potential conviction is, I will go to prison for something I didn’t do before I came forward. I will never give them this victory.”

7. This Vanity Fair The article would have played an important role at Monday’s hearing in a civil wrongful death case in Brockton if it had been published just 24 hours earlier.

On Monday, attorneys for the O’Keefe family fought a motion by Reed’s civil team (other attorneys besides her criminal case) to delay the wrongful death lawsuit against her, arguing that the hearing of the claim violate her fifth amendment right against self-incrimination (everything she says on the record can be used against her in a criminal trial).

In oral arguments, an attorney for the O’Keefe family argued that Reed has no qualms about speaking publicly about his case in several media interviews and “using” the Fifth Amendment to his advantage.

The judge questioned Reed’s lawyers about the validity of these statements, asking what the difference was between Reed’s willingness to speak out publicly and to remain silent in court (Reed’s lawyers said the difference was that her statements were not made under oath).

In the Vanity Fair article, Reid said she had nothing to hide. “And it’s strange for a journalist to stay in the subject’s home, but Reed’s proposal was bold: three days during which she discussed each and every aspect of her life and the complex legal saga with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,” the article said. “There will be no lawyer, no parameters for the conversation, even though everything she tells me on the record could be used against her in the upcoming trial. “We are not afraid of anything,” she told me. “If you have questions, I have the answers.”