Karen Read’s Lexus has been repaired and is headed to auction, years after she drove it on the night of John O’Keefe’s death and police impounded the vehicle.

“The battery was dead,” JB Auto Care mechanic Bill Brusard told the Herald. “It had some rodents living in it. The dashboard was all apart, and it was messy.

“Obviously, the taillight was missing,” he added. “So we got it detailed, cleaned, removed the rat’s nest out of there — a mouse nest, whatever it was — put a new battery in it, changed the oil, put the taillight in it, and everything came out great.”

Police seized the Lexus on Jan. 29, 2022, the morning after Read’s boyfriend O’Keefe was found dead outside a Canton home.

Read was brought up on charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter related to accusations she had h

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