Vanessa Grigoriadis

This really is...

I think the most Boston case that's ever Boston.

I mean, there's so many things about it.

Most of the story sort of unfolds in Canton, Massachusetts, which is a town outside of Boston, kind of like a wealthy suburban enclave.

A lot of upper middle class blue collar people, upper middle class professional people.

It's a really interesting town.

And it's a small enough town where folks who went to high school there and who still live there are actually people that other people in town know.

They get elected to local office, for instance, or they're high ranking police officers in town, or they just have family name recognition.

The characters in this case are those people.

So what happened that night was that Karen Reed and her boyfriend, John, were invited out to basically drinks at a bar in Canton, Massachusetts.

They actually went from one bar to another with members of this family, the Albert slash McCabe family.

and with a DEA agent named Brian Higgins.

So they're all at the bar together.

They're all at this place called The Waterfall together, the second destination.

And somebody says at some point, come back to our house.

Now, that house belonged to Brian Albert, who was another Boston police officer, a Boston police detective who'd been involved in many high profile cases, his wife, Nicole.

And she was also invited by Brian Albert's sister-in-law, Nicole's sister, Jen McCabe.

The idea was they were all going to go back to the Albert house and have some more drinks, hang out, etc.

Karen didn't know these people very well.

Karen says that she wasn't 100% sure they were welcome at the house.