Who Will Play Karen Read in the Movie?

After watching the explosive closing arguments in the trial, I woke up this morning convinced that the book will definitely lead to a movie that will expose the corruption by the Boston cops.

OK, so when I started writing this column about 20 minutes ago, I hadn’t gotten the text from my sister Holly saying that Karen Read has just signed a movie deal to tell her explosive story.

But lately that’s what happens to me, one synchronicity after another.

Meanwhile, if there is someone out there who doesn’t know about the Karen Read murder trial — the second attempt to convict her of the murder of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe — then Google her name ASAP. Or just go straight to You Tube and watch more than an hour of the stunning closing arguments presented by Read’s brilliant attorney, Alan Jackson.

“There was no collision, there was no collision, there was no collision,” is how Jackson began. Because the prosecution maintained in two separate trials that Read backed up her SUV into her boyfriend on a snowy night in January of 2022 and left him for dead.

Led by Jackson, the defense presented a flood of detailed information that very conclusively shows that the prosecution’s story was impossible. In his closing argument, Jackson also suggests over and over again that Read was basically framed by Boston cops for the murder of one of their own, John O’Keefe.

In other words, the cops were trying to pin the murder on an innocent woman, a woman who gained an enormous following after her trial was picked up by a social media writer known as Turtle Boy.

Now that Read has been exonerated, Read and Jackson are hard at work on a book about the remarkable trial. As of right now, only 12 days after the end of the trial, a movie deal is in the works and speculation focuses on three possible actresses to play Read:

So OK, instead of writing the column I thought I was going to write, about the Karen Read trial and my speculation that there will be a movie, I am switching gears: I will write a different column, about another topic that’s very much on my mind, and very close to my heart: that is, the flood of synchronicities in my life, and how fiction writing, and especially writing my new book — a fictional memoir about an ancestor who lived a very long time ago — has opened my brain up to the universe in ways that I think will surprise, and perhaps even fascinate you.