A juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial who pushed for a not guilty verdict had also voiced support for Karen Read during Read’s closely watched murder case, according to resurfaced social media posts.
Three women who sat on the 12-member jury that was ultimately unable to reach a verdict in Clancy’s case spoke publicly for the first time in an interview with NBC Boston.
The jurors said they believed Clancy should have been found not guilty by reason of insanity, and they described heated clashes with a lone male holdout who, they claimed, refused to acquit even as they believed reasonable doubt remained.
Facebook posts from an account appearing to belong to one of the jurors, Kellie Farina, show strong support for Read during her 2025 murder trial, including activity in a group called “Free Karen Read.”
Read was acquitted in the high-profile case involving the death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe.
On the day of Read’s acquittal, Farina wrote: ‘Over and Out Page. Massachusetts Jury did their rightful duty today. Karen’s free.’
She also criticized the disgraced lead investigator of the case, former state trooper Michael Proctor, calling him a ‘POS’ (piece of s**t), and slammed special prosecutor Hank Brennan, calling him a ‘freaking joke.’
Read was accused of backing her SUV into her former boyfriend and then driving off, leaving him to die on the snowy front lawn of Brian Albert, a fellow Boston police officer, on January 29, 2022, while intoxicated.
Facebook posts from Lindsay Clancy juror Kellie Farina showed she was a supporter of Karen Read during her murder trial
Farina served on the 12-person jury that failed to decide Clancy’s fate while she was on trial for the murders of her three children
She long maintained her innocence and insisted that she was framed by his cop friends.
While her first trial ended with a hung jury, Read was acquitted during her second trial when multiple jurors said the ‘sloppy investigation’ into O’Keefe’s death left them with too much reasonable doubt.
Proctor was fired after the first trial for misconduct when it was revealed that he sent text messages to friends, family and co-workers calling Read a ‘whack job’ and wrote that he hoped she would kill herself.
Another point of contention in Read’s trial was that a federal agent who was at the party at Albert’s house, Brian Higgins, acknowledged at trial destroying his phone and SIM card afterward and disposing of them in two different locations on a military base.
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Farina’s posts in the ‘Free Karen Read’ echoed the theories that she was framed by the police. Those claims have been unproven.
Clancy, 36, was on trial for killing her three children, Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months, at her Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023.
She admitted to strangling her children, but pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of insanity, citing postpartum psychosis.
During five weeks of grueling testimony, prosecutors argued the killings were intentional and well planned, not the work of someone who had lost control.
Read was accused of backing her SUV into her former boyfriend and then driving off, leaving him to die in the snow
Facebook posts from an account that matches Farina’s details criticized the disgraced lead investigator of the Read case and slammed the prosecutor
The 12-person jury, made up of nine women and three men, spent more than 37 hours deliberating if she was guilty of murder, manslaughter, or not guilty. They were not sequestered during deliberations.
Ultimately, Judge William Sullivan was forced to declare a mistrial on Friday when it was revealed that a lone juror refused to find her not guilty despite having reasonable doubt.
During her interview with the local news station after serving on the Clancy jury, Farina said prosecutors lacked compassion and were cold.
‘I know it’s their job, but in a case like this, you expect a little bit,’ she said.
Jurors also heard the 911 call Clancy’s then-husband made when he found their children strangled.
Farina described Patrick’s 911 call as ‘the most horrific thing,’ and revealed the jury played it again in the deliberation room and cried.
‘We were just like, “My God, the desperation.” The despair in his voice was… It’s something that will stick with me,’ Farina said.
The Daily Mail contacted Farina for comment.