The jury foreman in Karen Read’s retrial on murder charges is the latest to open up and blame police missteps for the outcome, declaring the vindicated defendant not just not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, but completely “innocent” in a new televised interview.

“Karen Read is innocent, and she didn’t do this crime,” Juror No. 1 told “Today” on Tuesday morning. “No one could prove that she did this crime, so I looked at her from Day 1 as an innocent woman that needed to be proven guilty, and I don’t think any of that was shown in this process.”

Jurors rejected all homicide-related charges last week, convicting her only of drunken driving after she spent the night drinking cocktails and driving around Canton, Massachusetts, during a blizzard.

O’Keefe’s niece testified at trial that he had a toxic relationship with Read and indicated he wanted to call it off in the weeks before his death.

In an earlier interview with the Boston Herald, the foreman said he had ties to another high-profile local case. He knew the Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, as well as an 8-year-old victim of their terror attack, Martin Richard.