Karen Read exchanged flirty messages with another man two weeks before her cop boyfriend was found dead: testimony

Karen Read exchanged flirty texts with another man two weeks before her cop boyfriend was found dead in the snow, jurors heard during testimony in her murder trial Friday.“You’re hot,” Brian Higgins — an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, wrote to Read in a series of text message from January 2022.“Are you serious or messing with me?” Read responded.“No, I’m serious,” Higgins said.“The feeling is mutual,” Read wrote.“Is that bad?”The messages were read during Read’s retrial in a Dedham, Massachusetts, courtroom Friday morning by State Sgt.

Yuri Bukhenik, who oversaw the investigation into Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe’s death on Jan.29, 2022.Bukhenik carried on reading the communications — which continued for roughly two weeks, starting on Jan.

12, 2022 — aloud for roughly an hour as jurors sat riveted and took notes, NBC Boston reported.Read told Higgins in the messages that she got his number from a mutual friend and went on to ask him what his dating status was.“I am solo, no rotation,” wrote Higgins — who previously testified he’s been divorced since 2017.“I am not a hoe.”“Solo?” Karen responded.“Solo like no rotation or woman for that matter,” Higgins replied.

“Not locked down.Ha Ha.”“Good for you,” Read said.

“That’s the best way to be.”At one point, Higgins told Read, “I have always been attracted to you.”Things appear to start escalating over the days they message each other with Read inviting Higgins over and texting him later to tell him: “I’m glad you came over tonight.”Higgins asked Read what she wanted from him and if she was going to break up with O’Keefe, prompting Read to explain the situation was complicated but that O’Keefe had cheated on her with another woman when they were on vacation in Aruba.One juror who normally fidgets during testimony, sat with his mouth agape as the seemingly scandalous messages were read out, the ...