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A CONTROVERSIAL blogger is in jail in Massachusetts after being arrested on multiple charges during a murder trial.
The blogger, Aidan Timothy (Turtleboy) Kearney, 41, has been extremely vocal in his blog coverage during the murder case against Karen Read.
Read has been charged with second-degree murder for allegedly hitting her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, with her car outside of the home of a friend on January 29, 2022.
The case has garnered widespread speculation that a coverup was involved.
O’Keefe was allegedly found unresponsive laying in heavy snow outside of the friend’s house the next morning.
He was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead several hours later.
On Wednesday, Kearney, was charged with one count of conspiracy and eight counts of intimidation of a witness, juror, police or court officials, according to local ABC affiliate WCVB.
He was present in the courtroom for many of the pre-trial hearings in the murder case.
He had on a sweatshirt with the words: “Free Karen Read,” when he was escorted out of the courtroom Wednesday.
The prosecutors who brought the case read transcripts from his YouTube videos and referenced articles Kearney posted about his “Canton Coverup” investigation in court, according to local NBC affiliate 10 News.
Kearney has stated that he hoped his reporting would influence the jury pool in Read’s trial and that he would eventually broadcast himself calling the lead investigator in the case, and the lead investigator’s wife, and share their numbers leading to harassment of them, per the same source.
Read’s attorneys have alleged that other people are responsible for O’Keefe’s death.
In August, 2023, the Norfolk District Attorney, Michael Morrissey spoke out publicly saying that he was tired of the way people connected to the case have been treated.
“It should be an outrage to any decent person and it needs to stop,” Morrissey said at the time, per local ABC affiliate WCVB.
The DA also condemned the harassment of witnesses.
“I am asking the Canton community and everyone who feels invested in this case to hear all of the actual evidence at trial before assigning guilt to people who have done nothing wrong.
“And certainly before taking it upon yourself to harass citizens who, evidence shows, have done nothing in this matter but come forward and bear witness,” he said.
Morrissey continued: “We try people in the court and not on the internet for a reason. The internet has no rules of evidence. The internet has no punishment for perjury. And the internet does not know all the facts.”
The U.S. Sun has reached out to Massachusetts State Police for comment.
A spokesman for the Norfolk County District Attorney’s office told The U.S. Sun that the “witnesses in the trial began to complain publicly that they were being intimidated,” after Kearney’s arrest on Wednesday afternoon.
After Kearney’s arrest on Wednesday, retired FBI agent, Jennifer Coffindaffer, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that she was one of the people who was threatened by him.
She wrote: “It sometimes takes a while for justice to come, but it is on its way.
“Early this morning I was advised that @DoctorTurtleboy was arrested on multiple state charges. I never revealed that privately, via email, Aiden Kearney threatened not only me but also my family and my children.
“Why? Merely because of my initial post that I agreed with the state’s position that there was probable cause to believe #KarenRead killed #JohnOkeefe,” she said.
She continued: “Really a shame that this is the state of a true crime community. That a person can disagree about a case and be relentlessly stalked and maligned.
“To the relief of many, specifically those he continues to falsely accuse of killing Officer O’Keefe, justice is literally knocking at the door of Aiden.
“I hope those subscribing and following him will take a deep dive into who he is.
“His lack of credentials; What he has said in his blogs that have hurt so many; His past history with the law.
Coffindaffer said she is grateful that prosecutors have taken action to help innocent people.
Read’s trial is scheduled for March 12, 2024.
