Dakin Andone - Senior Reporter, National Hub
Dakin Andone
Senior Reporter, National Hub
Dakin Andone is a senior reporter based in New York, covering domestic breaking news with a focus on capital punishment. He also writes in-depth features as well as reported analysis.
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Did federal prosecutors prove their case against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs? Legal experts weigh in
Jun 26, 2025
Whether prosecutors in the trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs have proven their case is a question that will be answered by his jury, which soon will start deliberating in the hip-hop mogul’s blockbuster sex trafficking trial after hearing from 34 witnesses in testimony over more than six weeks.
Evidence in Karen Read’s case led to ‘only one person,’ prosecutor says in first statement since her acquittal
Jun 24, 2025
The special prosecutor who led the retrial of Karen Read is “disappointed” in the jury’s decision last week acquitting Read of killing her boyfriend, John O’Keefe – saying in a statement Monday “the evidence led to one person, and only one person.”
Karen Read acquitted in killing of police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe; guilty of drunk driving
Jun 19, 2025
Karen Read was acquitted in the killing of her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe on Wednesday, vindicating a defendant who had claimed to have been the victim of a sweeping cover-up.
The witnesses that defined the retrial of Karen Read for the death of her police officer boyfriend
Jun 19, 2025
CNN highlights about a dozen witnesses called over the last eight weeks, whose testimony illuminated key pieces of the theories presented by prosecutors and Read’s defense.
43 hours, 4 victims and 1 alleged assassin: How Minnesota’s largest manhunt in history came to an end
Jun 16, 2025
Daylight was still two hours off when Brooklyn Park police approached the home of former Minnesota Speaker Melissa Hortman to find someone had beat them there.
Jury begins deliberations in Karen Read’s retrial for the death of John O’Keefe
Jun 13, 2025
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.
Karen Read’s defense rests its case in her retrial for the death of her police officer boyfriend
Jun 11, 2025
Defense attorneys for Karen Read rested their case Wednesday, bringing her retrial for the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend one step closer to its blockbuster conclusion.
A look at the ‘less lethal’ weapons authorities used to crack down on Los Angeles protests
Jun 10, 2025
Late Sunday, as protesters against federal immigration raids clashed with law enforcement, the Los Angeles Police Department’s Central Division sent out a warning:
4 executions are scheduled in 4 states over four days this week. Here’s what we know
Jun 9, 2025
Over the next four days, four inmates in four states are scheduled to be put to death – a cluster that, while not abnormal – comes amid a national uptick in executions as President Donald Trump calls for the death penalty’s expansion.
Filing by Karen Read’s defense appears to signal she won’t testify in her retrial
Jun 4, 2025
A new court filing by Karen Read’s defense team could indicate she will not testify in her retrial for the January 2022 killing of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, as questions swirl about whether she will take the stand in the case’s waning days.
Prosecutors present fired investigator’s sexist texts in Karen Read’s retrial as defense chooses not to read them
Jun 3, 2025
Jurors in the retrial of Karen Read heard a spate of text messages
Karen Read’s defense calls its first witness in her retrial in the killing of her Boston police officer boyfriend
May 30, 2025
Karen Read’s defense called its first witness on Friday, marking a new phase in her retrial in the killing of John O’Keefe, her off-duty Boston police officer boyfriend whose body was found buried in the snow outside a home in Canton, Massachusetts, in January 2022.
Prosecution rests its case in retrial of Karen Read
May 29, 2025
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts on Thursday rested its case in chief in the retrial of Karen Read, who is accused of striking her off-duty Boston police officer boyfriend with her vehicle and leaving him to die in January 2022.
Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley are released from federal prison after receiving Trump pardons
May 29, 2025
The reality show couple Todd and Julie Chrisley were released from federal custody on Wednesday, a day after they were pardoned by President Donald Trump following their 2022 convictions for fraud and tax crimes.
A key witness in the Karen Read retrial takes the stand for a second day of testimony. Here’s what we’ve learned so far
Apr 30, 2025
A key witness in the retrial of Karen Read returned to the stand Wednesday for a second day of testimony, as she recounted the hours leading up to the death of Read’s boyfriend John O’Keefe — and the moment the off-duty Boston police officer’s body was found lying in the snow.
3 children who are US citizens — including one with cancer — deported with their mothers, lawyers and advocacy groups say
Apr 30, 2025
Three US citizen children were deported to Honduras with their mothers last week, including a 4-year-old receiving treatment for metastatic cancer, according to the families’ attorneys and civil rights and immigration advocacy organizations.
About
Dakin Andone is a senior news desk reporter based in New York, covering domestic breaking news with a focus on capital punishment. He also writes in-depth features as well as reported analysis.
Since joining the network in the fall of 2016, Andone has covered a wide range of major stories, among them mass shootings, terror attacks, natural disasters, the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and high-profile criminal trials, including that of the Parkland school shooter and Alex Murdaugh.
Andone began his career as an intern for CNN’s bureau in Atlanta, working with the network’s field producers and correspondents and writing for CNN’s website. He is from Atlanta and graduated from Georgia State University.
