With still no verdict in the Karen Read murder trial, several supporters of the Mansfield woman accused of killing her Boston Police officer boyfriend say they’re starting to lose hope.

“I can’t believe that it’s gone this long,” Dedham resident Carrie Crossland told the Herald. “As it goes on, I’m a little bit more disappointed that it wasn’t a quick verdict because I can’t understand how it couldn’t have been. My confidence is waning.”

Judge Beverly Cannone released the jury at 4 p.m. Wednesday, with a juror stressing a long-held prior commitment later in the day. Deliberations began Tuesday afternoon following closing arguments.

Jurors have sat for 30 days of trial, and waiting for a verdict has made some supporters grow weary and tired – no matter how much they believe Read will be found not guilty.

At first, Crossland said she sided with the prosecution that Read struck John O’Keefe, a 16-year Boston Police officer and boyfriend of two years, with her SUV following a drunken argument and left him to die in a snowstorm in front of 34 Fairview in Canton in the early hours of Jan. 29, 2022.

O’Keefe died at the age of 46.

Crossland said she quickly changed her mind after “binge-watching” the trial.

“It only took me 15 minutes to know that Karen … Innocent? Guilty? I find her innocent, but there is so much reasonable doubt.”

Read, 44, faces charges including second-degree murder.

Defense attorneys counter that outside actors killed O’Keefe and conspired with state and local police to frame Read for his murder.

TD Floras drove down to Norfolk County Superior Court in Dedham from southern New Hampshire with her friend Marie Milroy to be outside the courthouse the first two days of deliberations.

Floras also expressed disappointment that a verdict has yet to come through, saying the pictures of John O’Keefe’s cut-up arms are clear evidence that Read didn’t kill him.

A medical examiner who testified Monday for the defense on the final day of testimony, Dr. Frank Sheridan, backed that of fellow defense witness Dr. Marie Russell, who said last Friday she believed wounds to O’Keefe’s arms were from a dog attack.

“Yesterday was more like of a circus atmosphere, but I think the people here are more solemn today,” Floras told the Herald. “No one has lost sight of the fact that John O’Keefe has passed away. He was murdered by somebody. Likely, there will never be anybody held accountable for that.”

Milroy had a bit of a differing opinion than her friend, saying the drama and antics in and outside the courtroom have been at the forefront with O’Keefe’s death taking a backseat of sorts.

“They have lost a son,” she said of O’Keefe’s parents. “Regardless of what happens, she could get her life back, but he’s not coming back. That’s the problem. It has been so focused on … that you lose sight of the fact that there’s a dead person involved in this incident and a family that’s grieving.”

Controversy sparked in the courtroom Wednesday morning when defense attorney Alan Jackson took exception to the design of the verdict slip – it didn’t allow jurors to check a box marked “not guilty” for the two subordinate charges, manslaughter while operating a motor vehicle under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death.

Cannone later revised the form to the defense’s liking, but the judge’s initial sheet caught the dislike of Read supporters.

“What, did Beverly stay up all night and say ‘How am I going to (expletive) the next day up?’ So what did she do? She puts a wrench on the form,” said Liz, a supporter who declined to provide her last name.

Read’s true-crime celebrity status has ascended nationwide and worldwide, with supporters flocking to Dedham from outside New England and the country.

Former ESPN football analyst Todd McShay posted his feelings on the case on X, siding with the defense.

“I’ve kept quiet on this for months (and this will be my only post on the matter),” he wrote, “but how could any sane person, after listening to eight weeks of Jackson/Yanetti shred The Commonwealth’s witnesses and theories, find Karen Read guilty? Anything less than a not guilty verdict screams more foul play.”

A Karen Read supporter deals with the heat outside the courthouse. (Chris Christo/Boston Herald)