Reporters are barred from recording or live streaming the testimony of O’Keefe’s niece and nephew, whom he took in to raise following the deaths of their parents.

The niece, who WBZ-TV will not identify by name, is now a high school junior. She was around 14 years old when John O'Keefe died. She has a younger brother who testified during the first trial but did not testify during the retrial.

Court is back in session Wednesday in the Karen Read murder retrial following an unexpected day off.Victim Boston police officer John<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More

Jurors sitting on the high-profile case became privy to a slew of text message exchanges that showed a flirtation between the woman charged with killing her boyfriend and an ATF agent who was a friend of the dead man,

Karen Read pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the death of Boston police officer John O’Keefe and is facing a retrial after a jury was unable to reach a verdict last year.

A panel of appeals judges have vacated, but not reversed, an order finding that the Karen Read trial buffer zone for protesters is valid and constitutional.The appeals court is now sending the case back to district court to revisit the buffer zone to see if the rules can be tailored in a way that allows peaceful protests.

To put a label on the whole thing, my opinion is that she’s trying to get revenge,” Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Yuriy Bukhenik testified Friday.