Michael Proctor’s family release statement

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“After exhaustive investigations both at the state level and at the federal level, and at a large jury, a single person was accused of a crime, read the defendant Karen,” said the soldier’s wife.

Of Abby Patkin

March 13, 2025 | 8:47 am

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The state police family in Massachusetts Massachusetts, Michael Proctor, whose Gross texts About Karen read a pale in her first crime process and put her own career in dangerspoke for the first time.

Proctor’s wife and sister released on Thursday, accusing Read’s lawyers of malignant the investigator to deviate from “overwhelming” evidence indicating Read’s alleged role in January 2022 of her lover, the Boston police officer John O’Keefe. Proctors asked the public members to “actually look at the facts of this case”, observing a federal probe in terms of the state management of the investigation recently concluded no arrests or charges announced.

“After exhaustive investigations both at the state level and at the federal level, and at a large jury, a single person was accused of a crime, read the defendant Karen,” said Elizabeth Proctor, the soldier’s wife.

Read, 45 years old, is accused of deliberately and deliberately supported SUV in O’KEEFE, while throwing it at a party after hosted a Boston officer’s house. While prosecutors say he hit O’Keefe and left him dead, the defense maintains that O’Keefe entered and was beaten promptly, attacked by the dog owner’s dog and, finally, thrown out in the snow.

Read’s first process ended with a jury hanging last July, and she is to be processed next month.

Read and her lawyers claimed a complex coverage of law enforcement and sought to involve the Proctor in the body. Taking the position last summer, Proctor – the main investigator – faced the control over his links with the witnesses in case, as well as the texts he sent to his friends, family and colleagues in the first days of the investigation.

During his testimony, Proctor acknowledged that he “dehumanized” read through the texts called “a Wack C ** t job, making light on Crohn’s disease, joking to look nude on the phone and express his hope that he would kill.

“Which of us did not say something regrettable in times of stress, shock or sadness? And how would you feel if the content of your personal phone had been questioned to the public without complete context? Said Courtney Proctor, the soldier’s sister.

Elizabeth Proctor said that their family was “tormented” in the years since O’Keefe’s death.

“Unfortunately, we know that speaking, more harassment will be unleashed on our family,” she said. “But we can no longer sit in silence and look in silence Michael’s character to be attacked and despised so unfairly.”

Shortly after Read’s mystrial, the State Police suspend Proctor without payment waiting for an internal business investigation. Proctor faced a series of Hearings of the court committee with closed doors As for his charges of incorrect conduct, including another session provided for Thursday.

Read below the full launch of the Proctor family, in its original formatting:

Given the false statements of Karen Read and her defense team – both inside and outside the courtroom – Michael Proctor’s family speaks for the first time to address the wrong statements of his character and The request for the public to actually look at the facts of this case.

On January 29, 2022, fourteen minutes before his change, Michael Proctor was distributed in a case of unattended death, and his life was forever changed. Proctor and the other investigators followed the evidence, and a jury of the defendant’s colleagues read and read only for the killing of officer John O’Keefe.

Despite this fact, the family says, Michael Proctor has been defamed, malignant and falsely labeled by the alleged criminal, her family, her defense team and a crowd of her followers. Through propaganda and unprecedented misinformation, defense tries this case in the public opinion court and Painting Karen read as a victim with the hope of giving a jury pool.

“To At the end of the day, a beloved police officer and an honorable man was killed. The prosecutor considers it an open and closed case, and the defense also knows this. So their tactics is to put my husband, the main investigator, in the process of sending texts to his personal phone to his friends and family,“ said Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth Proctor. “Karen Read defense team improperly creates false narratives and distracts the public and potential jurors from clear evidence.”

It was recently announced that all aspects of the federal investigation involving this case were closed.

Michael Proctor, who has an unlimited police file in the 12 years with Massachusetts State Police, He confessed that the texts on his personal phone were unprofessional and regrettable, but they certainly did not affect the integrity of the investigation.

“Michael – and so many others in his work line – see horrible things every day and maybe at Times must be ventilated personally. He saw that an officer colleague dying in a horrible and tragic death. Who among Didn’t we say something regrettable in times of stress, shock or sadness? And like Feeling whether your personal phone content has been questioned to the public No full context? “ said Courtney Proctor, Proctor’s sister.

Proctor’s wife says that the family has been tormented for years because of the case and that it is time to focus on the real perpetrator.

“Unfortunately, we know that speaking, several harassment will be unleashed on our family. But we can no longer stand and look in silence Michael’s character to be attacked and despised so unfairly. After exhaustive investigations both at the state and federal level, and a great jury, a single person was accused of a crime, read the defendant Karen, ”said Elizabeth Proctor.

Abby Patkin is a general award reporter whose work reaches public transport, crime, health and everything between them.