Overview
- Four witnesses filed a defamation suit in Barnstable Superior Court on Thursday, naming Karen Read and blogger Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney as defendants.
- The complaint by Jennifer McCabe, Brian Albert, Colin Albert, and Brian Higgins says Read and Kearney coordinated to falsely link them to Officer John O’Keefe’s 2022 death.
- Plaintiffs detail years of threats, verbal confrontations, and online abuse, and say the campaign upended their families and daily lives.
- Their lawyers from Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder and Hinckley Allen & Snyder bring claims of defamation, civil conspiracy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
- Kearney faces separate witness-intimidation charges and pleads not guilty, while Read’s criminal case ended with an acquittal on murder and ongoing civil suits over O’Keefe’s death.