The Night of the Nor'easter

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Andrea Canning reports on the latest developments in the high-profile murder trial of Karen Read, who is accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, by reversing her car into him after a night out.

Andrea Canning and Blayne Alexander go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’:

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