Brian Albert

Brian Albert is a retired Boston Police sergeant detective who knew O'Keefe through law enforcement circles and met him and Karen Read at the Waterfall Bar on the night of January 28-29, 2022. O'Keefe's body was discovered on the front lawn of Albert's home at 34 Fairview Road that morning. Albert testified about his movements that night, the layout of his property, and his account that neither O'Keefe nor Read ever entered his house. His cross-examination became one of the trial's most contested sequences, with the defense challenging his prior statements, his disposal of a court-ordered cell phone, and a late-night call to federal agent Brian Higgins.