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Karen Read apparently has no involvement in the upcoming Prime Video<\/a> series about her high-profile murder trial. In fact, she said she didn\u2019t even authorize it.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, Deadline<\/a> reported Prime Video was teaming up with Warner Bros. Television to develop a limited series dramatizing Read\u2019s trial, with Elizabeth Banks<\/a> ready to play the acquitted Boston-area woman and executive-produce the production. David E. Kelly<\/a> is also on board as an executive producer, and Justin Noble<\/a> (The Sex Lives of College Girls<\/a>) serves as showrunner and EP.<\/p>\n In an interview on WKRO<\/a> the following day, however, Read said she hadn\u2019t sanctioned the limited series. \u201cI have nothing to do with that; it\u2019s not authorized by me in any way,\u201d she said, per The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. Attorney Alan Jackson added that the legal saga is \u201cKaren Read\u2019s story to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n Read stood trial \u2014 twice \u2014 for the murder of her boyfriend, John O\u2019Keefe, a Boston police officer who was found wounded outside a suburban home and died of blunt force trauma and hypothermia in January 2022. Prosecutors accused Read of reversing her SUV into O\u2019Keefe. But Read\u2019s defense argued during her first trial that Brian Albert, a former Boston police officer who owned the suburban house, and Brian Higgins, a federal agent, participated in a conspiracy to frame Read, an allegation both men have denied, per NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read\u2019s first trial was deemed a mistrial with a hung jury in July 2025; her second trial ended this June in her acquittal on second-degree murder, motor vehicle manslaughter while driving under the influence, and leaving the scene of a collision. She was convicted of operating under the influence of liquor and sentenced to one year of probation.<\/p>\n The ID<\/a> docuseries A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read<\/a> and the podcasts 34 Fairview Road and Karen cover Read\u2019s case<\/a>, and it\u2019s Karen, a Wondery and Law & Crime production, that\u2019s the basis for Prime Video\u2019s limited series.<\/p>\n \u201cThe case fractures a community, with some believing she is guilty of first-degree murder, and others that she\u2019s the victim of a sweeping cover-up by state and local law enforcement,\u201d reads a logline shared by Deadline. \u201cThis series explores society\u2019s obsession with true crime, the allure of conspiracy and the deepening crisis of trust in our institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n