The retired Boston police sergeant who owned the Canton house at the heart of Karen Read’s murder case, who is plagued by conspiracy theories and allegations of cover-up, stated that he would have taken a bullet for Read’s boyfriend, John O. Keefe.
One day after Read was found not guilty of killing O Keefe outside Albert’s house in January 2022, Brian Albert talked with ABC News Thursday.
He added of O Keefe, a 16-year veteran of the Boston Police Department, “I would have taken a bullet for John O. Keefe, because he was a fellow cop.”
Albert, accompanied by his wife, Nicole, and several family members, vehemently refuted claims that Read was the victim of a police enforcement cover-up. Albert maintained that O Keefe never entered the house, despite Read’s attorneys’ long-standing suggestion that he met his demise inside 34 Fairview Road after showing up at an afterparty.
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Albert told ABC News’ Matt Gutman, “You do realize that it would take 30 to 50 people for this conspiracy to be true.” Multiple officers from two different departments, as well as numerous citizens, the medical examiner, firefighters, EMTs, and more, would be required. That’s how ridiculous and absurd this is.
“I don’t understand how people bought this,” he continued.
However, on Wednesday, jurors only found Read guilty of drunk driving and found her not guilty of second-degree murder and abandoning the scene of a fatal collision that killed O Keefe. She will be on probation for a year.
Read’s attorneys attempted to link the Alberts to their cover-up allegation throughout her case, even mentioning Brian Albert as a potential third-party culprit in O Keefe’s murder.
According to Brian and Nicole Albert, they didn’t find out about O Keefe’s passing until Read and two other women—Kerry Roberts and Nicole’s sister, Jennifer McCabe—discovered him unconscious on the icy lawn. Early on January 29, 2022, McCabe, who had been at the afterparty at 34 Fairview Road hours before, stormed into the Alberts bedroom.
She was simply unhappy, and since she was in my bedroom at 6:30 in the morning, I instinctively assumed that one of her or my children had been harmed. Nicole Albert remembered.
“John s John s out front,” she added. Brian Albert went on, “John, I believe John is dead out front.” “What the [expletive] are you talking about, Jen?” I asked her. John was out in front of my house, so I couldn’t understand what she was talking about.
Brian Albert is a skilled first responder who has been repeatedly criticized by defense lawyers for failing to investigate or help emergency personnel while they worked on O Keefe.
He said, “I’m a Boston police officer, not a Canton police officer.” I just woke up after spending the previous night hanging out. The police had already arrived at my residence when I stepped downstairs. John had already left. No one needed to be saved.
“Should I run out front in my underwear and start running yellow tape around the fire hydrant?” he added.
His brother, Chris Albert, McCabe and her husband, Matthew McCabe, joined Albert and his wife for the ABC News interview. On the night of O Keefe’s death, the five went to the Waterfall Bar & Grille to drink with O Keefe and Read.
In an earlier statement released on Wednesday, the families described Read’s verdict as a terrible injustice.
Regarding their choice to remain silent earlier, Matt McCabe stated, “We took what we thought was the high road: let the court do its job.”
Chris Albert went on to say: I believe that because we were only witnesses, we all kept quiet. This is an issue with which we had no involvement.
As rumors about O Keefe’s passing spread, the Alberts and McCabes claimed they had been accused of murder.
According to Matt McCabe, everyone involved in this case has at some point been accused of murder.
Citing yet another frequently made accusation, Jen McCabe continued, “And anyone who’s friends with us supports cop killers.”
Brian Albert says they have also been threatened with violence.
Whether it’s phone calls, emails, texts, or bizarre letters to people’s homes in the style of Unabomber, he clarified.
Chris Albert claims that the internet true crime investigation and conspiracy theories deprive the case’s participants of their humanity.
He informed Gutman that they had dehumanized us to the point where we were no longer considered human. We resemble caricatures in many ways. We are pawns, and we are just.
Brian Albert also expressed worries regarding the precedent that Read’s case creates, especially with regard to witnesses who are coincidentally connected to an alleged crime scene.
The plan calls for identifying the location, destroying their reputations, attacking, defaming, torturing them, torturing their children, and torturing everybody who has ever known them. “Avoid having them testify,” he urged. And pollute the jury pool in the process.
Chris Albert discussed the criticism and attention that the Alberts and McCabes have received in their hometown of Canton ever since Read’s lawsuit began.
He admitted, “You get down, you get depressed.” However, this is the town where we grew up. As is, we did nothing wrong. We all made contributions to our town, which we adore. Why must we travel anywhere?
Abby Patkin covers a wide range of topics as a general assignment news reporter, including crime, public transportation, health, and everything in between. She has been reporting on the murder case of Karen Read.
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