34 Fairview Road

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34 Fairview Road is the home of retired Boston Police Sergeant Brian Albert, and the front lawn where Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe was found unresponsive in a blizzard on January 29, 2022. O'Keefe had arrived overnight with his girlfriend, Karen Read, after stops at two Canton bars; Jennifer McCabe — Albert's sister-in-law — placed the 911 call from the house at 6:04 a.m. Whether O'Keefe entered the house is the disputed question the two trials turn on. The Commonwealth's theory is that Read struck him with her Lexus while reversing on the street. The defense's is that O'Keefe was assaulted inside 34 Fairview and the scene was staged, with investigators tied to the Albert family building the case against Read. The scene itself became contested evidence. Officer Paul Gallagher testified he observed no footprints between O'Keefe's body and the house; no resident of Fairview Road emerged during the 90-minute response. Canton PD's initial scene search recovered no taillight pieces; the fragments later produced arrived only after Trooper Michael Proctor had access to Read's Lexus. Early dispatch records and two police reports listed the wrong address. And law enforcement never conducted a search beyond the foyer.