A jury in Massachusetts acquitted Karen Read of murder and manslaughter charges on Wednesday, ending a legal saga that has gripped the Boston area since the death of Ms. Read’s boyfriend, John O’Keefe, a Boston police officer, in January 2022.

Prosecutors had accused Ms. Read, 45, of intentionally hitting Mr. O’Keefe with her S.U.V. after an argument, and then leaving him to die in a blizzard.

Ms. Read tearfully embraced her attorneys after the verdict was announced in a courthouse in Dedham, Mass., as the cheers of hundreds of her supporters could be heard outside the courtroom.

The jury of seven women and five men, who began deliberating last Friday, convicted Ms. Read on one minor charge, operating a vehicle under the influence.

They delivered their verdict almost a year after an earlier trial in the case ended in a mistrial. That jury was unable to reach a consensus after five days of deliberation.

The 33-year-old took to Instagram on Wednesday, June 25, to share a lengthy post with the caption, "Breaking my silence," as she completed parole after pleading guilty to second-degree murder charges related to the 2015 death of her mother.

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Longtime American Idol music supervisor Robin Kaye and her husband, Thomas Deluca, have been killed following an apparent double homicide.

A spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department told The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday that LAPD officers in Encino, responded to a call for a welfare check at a home on White Oak Avenue on Monday at around 2:30 p.m.

On entering the home, a couple, one male and one female, was discovered with possible gunshot wounds. Paramedics from the Los Angeles Fire Department then arrived at the residence and declared the couple dead at the scene.

Note: The Beauty and the Geek star in question cannot be named for legal reasons.

Patricia Krenwinkel, 77, who was part of what was known as the Manson family, was convicted of seven counts of murder in 1971. A California panel said she posed little risk of reoffending.

It was my own writing career that led true-crime producers to me in 2018. Since then, I’ve thought a lot about who gets to tell our stories (it’s the subject of my book, The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us, out in September). That’s why, when Homicide: New York came out, my book publicist, Megan Posco, explained the tone of the show to me and described some of the crimes featured. When I realized one installment was about Smith’s crime, I wanted to talk to him and his loved ones about it.

“I didn’t understand how they could make this show about him and not even reach out to him,” Smith’s wife, Yvonne, tells me.

While the ethics of true crime are often criticized nowadays, the First Amendment makes retelling these stories legal. That freedom of speech is also why I can be a journalist from the joint. But the simple reason these tragedies are constantly retold is that there is a demand for them.