Karen Read arrived at court to a group of supporters ahead of her second murder trial, where she stands accused of killing her police officer boyfriend with her vehicle.

Read, 45, looked stylish in a black double-breasted dress and wore her hair long and flowing as she approached the Norfolk County Courthouse in Dedham, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, April 22.

Supporters holding signs reading “Karen Read Innocent” and “Enough Is Enough” were there to greet Read in photos obtained by The Daily Mail.

She is facing a retrial for the alleged murder of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, in a case that has drawn national attention. Her first trial ended with a hopelessly hung jury, and the judge declared a mistrial on July 1, 2024.

The former college professor is accused of intentionally backing her SUV into O’Keefe, resulting in his death, after a night out with his friends on January 28, 2022. O’Keefe was found the following morning in the snow outside Boston Police Detective Brian Albert’s home following an overnight blizzard.

Read claimed she dropped O’Keefe off at Albert’s home shortly after midnight before she went back to her boyfriend’s home alone, while he remained at the house with fellow law enforcement friends. She alleged that she tried getting ahold of O’Keefe via his cell phone and returned to Albert’s house around 6:00 a.m. on the morning of January 29, 2022, finding O’Keefe lying unconscious in a snowbank. He was later pronounced dead.

According to NPR, the medical examiner ruled “that the cause of death was blunt impact injuries to the head and hypothermia.”

Read was arrested on February 1, 2022, and charged with manslaughter, leaving the scene of a motor vehicle collision causing death and motor vehicle homicide. She was later indicted on charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence of alcohol and leaving the scene of personal injury and death in June 2022. Read pleaded not guilty on all charges.

During her first trial, Read’s defense maintained she was framed, and that O’Keefe was beaten inside Albert’s home — possibly by his fellow officers — and his body dumped outside. Her team also argued that the crack in her taillight did not come from striking O’Keefe with her vehicle.

In her retrial, Read is once again being represented by attorney Alan Jackson. The Norfolk District Attorney’s office has a new prosecutor, Hank Brennan, arguing on their behalf, replacing original prosecutor Adam Lally, who was the lead prosecutor in Read’s first trial.

“During the course of this trial, the commonwealth is going to desperately claim that Karen Read’s taillight was actually damaged by hitting John O’Keefe. They’ll have no evidence of it mind you. None. But they’ll make the claim,” Jackson told jurors in his opening statement of her retrial on April 22, Boston TV news affiliate CBS 42 reported.

Jackson called Read’s case “the very definition of reasonable doubt.” He added that “every piece of this case was handled by a disgraced investigator with a motive to protect his friends.”

“By the end of this trial, you’ll conclude that Karen Read is not guilty of hitting John O’Keefe with her SUV. There was no collision,” he said. “She’s the victim of a botched and biased and corrupted investigation that was never about the truth, folks. It was about preserving loyalty.”

Brennan told the jury in his opening statement that when EMT’s arrived at Albert’s home, they saw Read screaming while O’Keefe was lying in the snow. He said one of the paramedics working on O’Keefe heard Read say, “I hit him, I hit him, I hit him,” according to Boston ABC affiliate WCVB.

The prosecutor also claimed that one of O’Keefe’s hairs was found on Read’s vehicle and that a neurosurgeon would be testifying that the victim fell backwards and hit his head, sustaining his injury.

Read’s case was featured in a two-part Investigation Discovery docuseries, A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read, which aired in March.

Read pleaded her innocence in the series, saying, “I did not drive my car into John. I didn’t reverse it. Did not hit John with my car.”

She added, “There is zero chance this was an accident. There was zero chance John was hit by a vehicle.”