Karen Read’s father, Bill Read, opened up about his family’s experience throughout her three-and-a-half-year legal saga in a candid new podcast interview.

His 45-year-old daughter faced murder and other charges in the Jan. 29, 2022, death of her then-boyfriend, John O’Keefe, a Boston cop whom prosecutors alleged she mowed down with a Lexus SUV and left to die in a blizzard. The defense argued that she had never struck him, police had conducted a faulty investigation, and someone else had killed him. After a mistrial, jurors the second time around found her not guilty of all homicide-related charges and found her guilty of driving under the influence of liquor.

Speaking with Billy Bush on his live show, “Hot Mics with Billy Bush,” the elder Read said he believes his daughter had been the target of a corrupt investigation from the start and that she wouldn’t have put up such a fight if she had had something to hide.

Karen Read and John O’Keefe pose for an undated photograph. (Karen Read)

The case prompted the residents of Canton, Massachusetts, to demand an independent audit into their local police department, which found no evidence of a “conspiracy to frame” Read but faulted local police for a series of mistakes, including failure to photograph the victim’s body before it was moved, failing to lock down the crime scene and conducting witness interviews outside of headquarters.

State police also launched an internal probe into the lead homicide detective, Michael Proctor, who was fired for sharing confidential information with civilians outside of law enforcement and drinking on the job. He is appealing his dismissal.

There was also a federal grand jury empaneled in the case, and one of the jurors pleaded guilty to leaking secret information earlier this week.