On Monday, more than two years after the suspicious incident that left her boyfriend, the police officer John O’Keefe, dead in the snow, a Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial in the second-degree murder case against Karen Read. For many reasons, the trial has captivated true-crime rubberneckers far beyond suburban Canton, Mass. A telegenic defendant in a rocky relationship; a town’s police officials accused of an alleged cover-up; destroyed evidence by...