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Dropping Hints That I Want To Talk About the Karen Read Trial

The Friday Post. (On Sunday)

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Hunter Harris
Apr 28, 2025
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Karen Read during opening arguments at Karen Read's second murder trial on April 22. (Staff Photo: Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald via Getty Images)

Hello from Los Angeles1, where I am walking around Silver Lake with an iced coffee and describing it as “so Haim.” I have been to Erewhon every day that I’ve been here — what a glamorous place to feel constantly in the way.

On Friday night, I bailed on my plans to stay in my hovel of a hotel room to watch A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read, a four-episode doc series about a murder trial in Massachusetts. Usually, true crime isn’t for me (it gives the rudest person you went to high school with a reason to be self-righteous), but after a friend gave me the broad strokes over dinner, I decided to press play.

No spoilers here: Imagine your BOYFRIEND2 was found DEAD in the SNOW after a HOUSE PARTY and they say you DID IT and refuse to investigate the people AT the house party who all have BOSTON ACCENTS. (And a DOG and a SNOW PLOW driver and …

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