Karen Reed put her “meticulously maintained” four-bedroom, three-bathroom home in Mansfield, Massachusetts, on the market two weeks after her murder trial ended in a hung verdict.
Reed is accused of shooting and killing Boston police officer lover John O’Keefe in 2022. Listed two-storey colonial style home This week it’s $849,900.
“Mr Reed has not lived in Mansfield since last year and now wants another family to enjoy the property they have spent years improving,” said Mr Reed’s real estate agent, Richard Roche of RE/Max Platinum. He told Boston.com.
The “turnkey” home, built in 1972, has two bedrooms on the first floor and three on the second floor, but is listed as a four-bedroom because the septic system was designed to accommodate a four-bedroom household, Lockey told Boston media.
Features include a fireplace, hardwood floors throughout, central air conditioning, original wood beam accents, wide driveway, 2-car garage and unfinished basement.
The 2,516-square-foot home sits on a tree-lined street in the suburb of Mansfield, about 30 miles from Boston.
“She definitely spent a lot of time and money on this house,” Roche told the local newspaper. “There’s a lot of charm to this house. It’s got brick fireplaces, beams, it’s really warm.”
The investigation into the murder of Reed, 44, and her boyfriend has drawn passionate support, with supporters believing, as her lawyers argue, that she was being entrapped.
Prosecutors argued that she was drunk but deliberately ran over her boyfriend after dropping him off at a friend’s house and leaving him to die in a snowstorm.
But Reed’s defense team argued that Reed was framed by O’Keefe’s fellow Boston police officers and that it was his friends who beat him to death.
Conflicting claims about what happened on the night of January 29, 2022 were enough to split the jury, and on July 1, the judge declared a mistrial after five days of jury verdicts.
Roche did not immediately respond to a message from The Washington Post.
