Karen Learn, the lady accused of mowing down her Boston cop boyfriend, has speculated he was really killed in an “uncontrolled” saga with mates — as she revealed she retains a “go bag” in case she’s immediately arrested once more.
Learn, 44, provided up the idea in Self-importance Honest interview printed Tuesday as she doubled down on her long-held claims that she is being framed over John O’Keefe’s January 2022 dying.
The alleged killer, who’s simply months out from a second trial after her first one ended with a hung jury, has been accused of ramming O’Keefe along with her Lexus SUV and leaving him for lifeless in a snowstorm after dropping him at a Canton, Mass., home social gathering together with his cop mates.
“I imagine no matter occurred to John was a setup to show him a lesson or tune him up, and it obtained uncontrolled. Nobody would select to kill somebody in their very own house after which set it up so sloppily,” Learn informed the journal.
Learn and her protection attorneys have lengthy claimed — in interviews and at her dramatic two-month trial — that O’Keefe was killed inside the house and later dragged exterior.
O’Keefe was discovered with two black eyes, cranium fractures, and cuts on his face and the again of his arms, in addition to claw-like marks on certainly one of his arms, when his physique was found the next morning within the snowbank.
His post-mortem decided he died of hypothermia and blunt power trauma.
Within the aftermath, Learn — who had been courting the police officer since 2020 — was charged with second-degree homicide, manslaughter whereas working inebriated and leaving the scene of non-public harm and dying.
She claims, although, that investigators solely zeroed in on her as a result of she saved them from having to probe legislation enforcement officers as suspects.
“I informed my dad and mom, if I did something in any manner, I’ll pay my dues … that’s how this could work. I wish to know the reality — good, dangerous, ugly,” Learn mentioned within the new interview as she continued to profess her innocence.
Learn mentioned she additionally now retains a Ziploc “go bag” prepared in her house in case of a “sudden arrest,” in accordance with the outlet.
“In it: Advil, melatonin, toothbrush, toothpaste, hairbrush, drugstore lipstick, strip of paper along with her lawyer’s telephone quantity on it, and a bottle of Laura Mercier basis, left over from her earlier life,” the magazine famous.
“I’m not backing down now,” she added of her looming second trial, which is slated to kick off in January.
“As scary as a possible conviction is, I’ll go to jail for one thing I didn’t do earlier than I plea out. I’ll by no means give them that win.”
Elsewhere within the wide-ranging interview, Learn acknowledged she has been dwelling a nightmare ever since she was first fingered as a suspect and that her authorized payments preventing the costs have already surpassed $5 million.
The interview comes after Learn’s sensational two-month legal trial resulted in July when the choose declared a mistrial after jurors mentioned they had been deadlocked.
She is now awaiting a Jan. 27 retrial on the three prices.
Her attorneys, although, filed a movement to the state’s highest court docket final week in an try and bolster earlier arguments that two of the counts — second-degree homicide and leaving the scene — needs to be dismissed.
They argued that 5 jurors got here ahead after her mistrial to say that they had been deadlocked solely on a manslaughter rely and had agreed that she wasn’t responsible on the opposite counts.
In the meantime, prosecutors have argued that there’s no foundation for dismissing the costs as a result of the jury mentioned 3 times that it was deadlocked earlier than a mistrial was declared.
“The defendant was not acquitted of any cost as a result of the jury didn’t return, announce, and affirm any open and public verdicts of acquittal,” they wrote within the submitting.