Karen Read woke up a free woman on Thursday after she was found not guilty of murder and manslaughter in the 2022 death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe.

A jury cleared Ms. Read of charges related to the 2022 death of John O’Keefe, a Boston police officer, and convicted her only of drunken driving, in a trial that attracted wide attention.

Karen Read was acquitted in the killing of her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe on Wednesday, vindicating a defendant who had claimed to be the victim of a sweeping cover-up across two divisive trials.