Karen Learn apparently has no involvement within the upcoming Prime Video sequence about her high-profile homicide trial. The truth is, she stated she didn’t even authorize it.
On Wednesday, Deadline reported Prime Video was teaming up with Warner Bros. Tv to develop a restricted sequence dramatizing Learn’s trial, with Elizabeth Banks able to play the acquitted Boston-area girl and executive-produce the manufacturing. David E. Kelly can be on board as an government producer, and Justin Noble (The Intercourse Lives of Faculty Ladies) serves as showrunner and EP.
In an interview on WKRO the next day, nevertheless, Learn stated she hadn’t sanctioned the restricted sequence. “I’ve nothing to do with that; it’s not licensed by me in any method,” she stated, per The Hollywood Reporter. Legal professional Alan Jackson added that the authorized saga is “Karen Learn’s story to inform.”
Learn stood trial — twice — for the homicide of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, a Boston police officer who was discovered wounded outdoors a suburban dwelling and died of blunt pressure trauma and hypothermia in January 2022. Prosecutors accused Learn of reversing her SUV into O’Keefe. However Learn’s protection argued throughout her first trial that Brian Albert, a former Boston police officer who owned the suburban home, and Brian Higgins, a federal agent, participated in a conspiracy to border Learn, an allegation each males have denied, per NBC Information.
Learn’s first trial was deemed a mistrial with a hung jury in July 2025; her second trial ended this June in her acquittal on second-degree homicide, motorized vehicle manslaughter whereas driving beneath the affect, and leaving the scene of a collision. She was convicted of working beneath the affect of liquor and sentenced to at least one yr of probation.
The ID docuseries A Physique within the Snow: The Trial of Karen Learn and the podcasts 34 Fairview Highway and Karen cowl Learn’s case, and it’s Karen, a Wondery and Legislation & Crime manufacturing, that’s the idea for Prime Video’s restricted sequence.
“The case fractures a neighborhood, with some believing she is responsible of first-degree homicide, and others that she’s the sufferer of a sweeping cover-up by state and native legislation enforcement,” reads a logline shared by Deadline. “This sequence explores society’s obsession with true crime, the attract of conspiracy and the deepening disaster of belief in our establishments.”