The Karen Read case will be the subject of a new Netflix documentary series

CANTON – Netflix is ​​making a documentary about the Karen Read case and the death of a Boston police officer John O’Keefe.

The streaming service announced the new three-part documentary series on Friday. A release date has not yet been announced, but Netflix hinted that there will be further updates on the series “in the coming months.”

The Karen Read case ended in a mistrial

The announcement comes just weeks after Judge Beverly Cannone declared a mistrial in the case because the “deeply divided” jury could not reach a unanimous verdict. The prosecution intends to try the case againbut Read’s lawyers are trying to drop the charges of premeditated murder and leaving the scene of a crime causing bodily harm and death because they claim Jurors have reported There is agreement that she is not guilty on these two charges.

Read was accused of hitting and killing her then-boyfriend O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowstorm outside a Canton home after a night of drinking in January 2022. Read’s defense argued that she was framed in a cover-up involving police and several other people.

Netflix said the “as yet untitled documentary series will explore what happened in the days leading up to O’Keefe’s death.”

“Highly sensitive case”

Thousands have followed the sensational case obsessivelyand every day, crowds of Read supporters gathered outside the Norfolk District Court in Dedham to attend the trial, which lasted several weeks.

Sandpaper Films is producing the documentary and is being directed by Danielle Johnson and Rob Miller, who said they felt “incredibly privileged to be able to bring this important series to a global Netflix audience.”

“It is a case that has attracted enormous public attention and has far-reaching consequences,” Johnson and Miller said in a statement from Netflix. “We also recognize that this is an extremely sensitive case, and we are committed to treating everyone involved with the respect and consideration they deserve.”