DEDHAM, Mass. (WJAR) — Text messages between Karen Read and John O'Keefe were read for the jury Thursday at Read's murder trial in Norfolk Superior Court.

Read is accused of backing into O’Keefe with her SUV in January 2022 and leaving him in the snow to die. The defense claims someone else killed O’Keefe.

State Police Trooper Nicholas Guarino testified that he was able to find calls on O’Keefe’s phone, as well as texts been the victim and defendant.

He read the messages between O'Keefe and Read sent in the hours before they met up at a bar on the night he died. They were displayed on a screen in a PowerPoint presentation. (Watch video. Discretion advised.)

"Sick of always arguing and fighting," O'Keefe wrote. "It's been weekly for several months now. So yeh I'm not as quick to jump back into being lovie dovie as you apparently."

"I know your heart isn't in this anymore," Read wrote. "I've felt it for awhile and esp lately. I am willing to try more but not if you approaching the point of Indifference."

Read called O'Keefe more than a dozen times on Jan. 28, 2022. He didn't answer or rejected a majority of the calls.

O'Keefe's body was found the next day outside a home in Canton.

Earlier Thursday, O'Keefe's close friend, Michael Camerano, testified about the relationship between O'Keefe and Read and their interactions the night he died. He said the couple greeted each other with affection at a Canton bar, and that O'Keefe put his arm around Read and kissed her.

“He certainly never told you or even suggested that he was thinking about or planning to break up with Karen, right?” defense attorney David Yannetti asked.

“No,” Camerano said.

“And during the month before John’s passing, that January of 2022, you observed their relationship in your presence to be normal, caring, and affectionate, right?” Yannetti asked.

“Yes,” Camerano said.

Camerano testified that he left the bar before O'Keefe and that he woke up to missed phone calls.

"I was panicked," he said on the stand.

At the first trial, prosecutors called witnesses who described how the couple’s relationship had begun to sour before O’Keefe’s death, including his brother and sister-in-law, who testified that Read told her the couple had argued in Aruba after she caught O’Keefe kissing another woman.

Prosecutors went on to play television interview clips of Read talking about the night of drinking.

"I shouldn’t have been driving, but I know I wasn’t driving recklessly," she said.

The defense didn't want the clip to be shown.

"His mother leans over the kitchen island and says to me, 'I think he looks like he got hit by a car,'" Read said in the clip.

Court opened with Canton firefighter Daniel Whitley, who was called back to the stand to resume his testimony.

His questioning by Yannetti was tense at times as the defense attorney asked the witness several times to give yes or no answers.

Court wrapped up just before noon. The shortened session was due to some confusion when it came to witnesses.

Read left court quietly Thursday, not answering questions from reporters.

On Friday, the jury will take a trip to the Canton crime scene. A doctor is also expected to take the stand.

Read is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and leaving the scene. A mistrial was declared last year after jurors said they were at an impasse.

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NBC 10's Katie Benoit and the Associated Press contributed this report.