Aiden Kearney, the citizen journalist intensely focused on the Karen Read retrial, says he was ecstatic when he heard "not guilty" three times when the jury verdict was read yesterday ... and while the trial is finally over,

Aidan "Turtleboy" Kearney, the Holden man whose online coverage helped draw national attention to the Karen Read murder case, called the jury's not guilty findings on the most serious charges in the case "the most validating thing ever.

Those charges never should have been brought forward,” Aidan Kearney said Tuesday outside Norfolk Superior Court, where he was covering jury deliberations in the Karen Read trial.