It was Jan. 30, 2022, one day after a police officer named John O’Keefe had been found abandoned in the snow. A spokesman for the Norfolk District Attorney’s office sent an email to a reporter, the first to write a Globe story on a case that would become so big, even the courtroom ceiling fan would have its own handle on X — two, actually.

After nearly eight weeks of testimony, jury deliberations began in the retrial of Karen Read for the death of John O’Keefe, following closing arguments from Massachusetts prosecutors and defense attorneys presenting competing narratives about how the off-duty Boston cop died in January 2022.