The Lexus SUV that Karen Learn was driving the night time she was accused of mowing down her Boston cop boyfriend in 2022 goes up for public sale subsequent month.
Learn, 45, was on the middle of a whirlwind trial over the summer time, the place she was discovered not responsible of operating over and killing her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, 46, with the very automotive that may quickly be offered to the very best bidder.
Learn, an fairness analyst, accused a number of individuals, together with swaths of legislation enforcement officers, of making an attempt to border her.
Her case was intently adopted by the media and even sparked a number of podcast sequence, garnering followers and followers throughout the nation. Intrigue skyrocketed even additional after her 2024 trial was declared a mistrial.
In her summer time retrial, Learn was acquitted of all fees besides working drunk. She obtained a lenient sentence of only one 12 months of probation, a lot to the aid of her rabid fanbase.
When O’Keefe died, Learn’s 2021 Lexus LX 570 was towed to the Canton Police Division storage as proof. It was remanded to the Massachusetts State Police, who retained possession of it till Learn filed for it to be returned after the trial wrapped.
When the SUV was returned to Learn, it was in determined want of repairs. She had it detailed — after which ready for public sale via JJManning Auctioneers, CBS Information reported.
No precise date has been introduced for the extremely anticipated public sale, however it’s purported to happen someday in January in Massachusetts, the outlet reported.
Learn continues to be within the crosshairs of a civil lawsuit O’Keefe’s household filed towards her.
However she has in the meantime pivoted to suing key investigators and witnesses who testified towards her, together with the since-axed lead investigator Michael Proctor and his former supervisors, Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik and Lt. Brian Tully.
Proctor was canned between the primary and second trial after he was caught snooping for nudes on Learn’s cellphone and sending vulgar texts degrading her as a “wack job c–t.”
When O’Keefe was discovered useless at a fellow Boston cop’s dwelling in Canton, Mass. on Jan. 29, 2022, Learn was accused of backing her SUV up into him and leaving him to die out within the chilly.
The couple, who had a tempestuous relationship, had gotten right into a drunken argument earlier that night time earlier than she dropped him off on the celebration.
Her protection claimed that O’Keefe’s deadly damage, a cranium fracture, was inconsistent with a car strike on a pedestrian.
The prosecution’s witnesses, although, claimed they overheard a distraught Learn repeatedly muttering “I hit him” when O’Keefe was discovered useless.
In her first assertion to her obsessed supporters exterior the courthouse after the not responsible verdict, Learn openly claimed that “nobody has fought more durable for justice for John O’Keefe” than she had.
