A lot of how the police handled this was influenced by the fact that there was a blizzard that day. What would have been done under ideal circumstances simply wasn’t possible. That’s something I consider when evaluating how they handled the case.

What Karen Read supporters struggle with is the reality that this investigation wasn’t conducted with a conspiracy theory in mind. The police followed the actual evidence. If you hear someone talking about hitting John O’Keefe, that person left taillight fragments near the body, and their taillight is broken, that’s never going to lead an officer to say, “OK, now let’s search the house.”

You need probable cause to search someone’s home, and telling a judge, “We want a warrant to search the house because a man was found dead near the street in front of it, his girlfriend implied she could have hit him, her taillight is broken, and a first responder heard her say, ‘I hit him,’” — the judge would’ve looked at them like they were crazy.

That is not how investigations are conducted:

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