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The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore

Hidden Killers Podcast

Welcome to "The Murder of Sandra Birchmore," a podcast channel dedicated to uncovering the dark and disturbing details surrounding the tragic death of Sandra Birchmore—a case that has shaken the foundations of trust in law enforcement in Massachusetts. Sandra Birchmore was a young woman whose life was marked by manipulation and exploitation at the hands of multiple police officers, including those from the Stoughton Police Department. Beginning when she was just a minor, Sandra became entangled in

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30:32

Sandra Birchmore’s Case Now Turns on WHAT?!

The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore ·

2026/10/12

Sandra Birchmore’s federal murder case now places two disputed questions directly in front of a jury: what Matthew Farwell believed about her pregnancy, and whether her death was suicide or strangulation. Neither question is as simple as the early public narrative made it sound.DNA testing excludes Farwell as the biological father of Birchmore’s unborn son. Prosecutors nevertheless allege Birchmore told Farwell the baby was his and say messages from the period show he believed that. Their theory is

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12:49

Sandra Birchmore's School Records Are Going to a Jury...

The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore ·

2026/10/10

Matthew Farwell's lawyers have collected Sandra Birchmore's journals and her school records, and Judge Denise Casper has ruled they can use them. Their stated basis is that Farwell's entire defense is that Sandra took her own life on February 1, 2021, which makes anything she ever wrote about wanting to die relevant to whether she did. Prosecutors fought the ruling and lost.Farwell, the former Stoughton police detective charged with killing Sandra and causing the death of her unborn child, has

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18:02

Sandra Birchmore Believed THIS About Her Baby's Father

The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore ·

2026/10/09

Sandra Birchmore was making plans. She learned she was pregnant in December 2020, told Matthew Farwell the baby was his, and started contacting attorneys about paternity, custody and support for a child she expected to raise. She was eight to ten weeks along when she died on February 1, 2021, at 23 years old, in her Canton apartment.Prosecutors say Farwell, a Stoughton police detective who had known Sandra since she was a child in the department's Explorers program, strangled her and arranged the

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32:27

Sandra Birchmore Put THIS on the Sign She Made for...

The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore ·

2026/10/06

Before Matthew Farwell's federal trial begins on October 5, 2026, this is Sandra Birchmore's whole story in one place, both parts of the Hidden Killers series combined. It opens on the handmade sign her family found when they cleaned out her apartment, the one she'd made for the man she said was the father, and on what she'd put on it. Who she was. What the Stoughton Police Department's own investigators found was done to her. What the state did with the evidence of her death. And who finally

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18:13

What Farwell Wanted to Know Five Days After Sandra...

The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore ·

2026/10/02

Prosecutors say it took about an hour for local officers to tell the medical examiner's office that Sandra Birchmore's death involved no foul play. It took five years, her family, a newspaper, a famous pathologist, and the FBI to undo that. Part 2 of Sandra's story is the investigation, the declination, and everyone the record shows walked away.By February 6, 2021, the state had watched a hooded, masked man go into Sandra's building at 9:14 p.m. and come out at 9:43. It had a complex employee's

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17:13

What Sandra Birchmore Put on the Sign She Made for...

The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore ·

2026/10/01

Sandra Birchmore made a sign to tell a man he was going to be a father, sprinkled it with glitter, and put her ultrasound picture on it. Her family found it when they cleaned out her Canton apartment after she was found dead on February 4, 2021, along with a stroller still in the box and a load of laundry left in the washer. Part 1 of this two-part series tells her story from the beginning, because February 1 doesn't make sense without 2010.That's the year Sandra, 12, applied to the Stoughton

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38:47

Sandra Birchmore’s Death Certificate Now Says WHAT?!

The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore ·

2026/09/20

Sandra Birchmore’s death certificate no longer lists the same conclusion that shaped the first investigation. The Massachusetts medical examiner initially ruled her death a suicide. On April 30, 2026, the office changed the manner of death to undetermined and revised the cause from asphyxia by hanging to asphyxia. That change comes as Matthew Farwell prepares to stand trial in federal court. His defense says Sandra killed herself, and Judge Denise Casper has ruled that jurors may hear evidence

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17:51

Sandra Birchmore’s Department Had THIS Going On for...

The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore ·

2026/09/15

Before Sandra Birchmore died — before the duffel bag strap, before the staged apartment federal prosecutors allege — there was Stoughton. And Stoughton had been eating itself for decades.Sandra joined the Explorers program at twelve looking for mentorship. Federal prosecutors allege the officers who ran it took something else entirely. The union president allegedly began a physical relationship with her at fifteen. His twin and the deputy chief who oversaw the program also crossed boundaries,

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20:59

Farwell's Defense Says Sandra Did THIS to Herself

The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore ·

2026/09/11

Farwell's defense is built on one argument: Sandra Birchmore killed herself. They have psychiatric records dating back to age nine, journal entries, a medication with a suicide warning, and a prior attempt. They won the right to put all of it before the jury. Their case rests on Sandra's instability, her manipulation, and her pain—every piece of damage the defense can find.Prosecutors allege that damage has a source. Sandra joined the Stoughton Police Explorers at twelve. By fifteen, Farwell had

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15:33

What Did a Canton Cop Really Say About Sandra...

The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore ·

2026/06/09

Sandra Birchmore’s name showed up in a place nobody expected — in a text chain between a Canton police sergeant and the state police trooper who led the investigation into the death of John O’Keefe in the Karen Read case. According to an eighty-seven-page lawsuit filed against Canton and the Massachusetts State Police, former Canton Sgt. Sean Goode allegedly responded to Birchmore’s story by calling her a derogatory slur in a message to fired Trooper Michael Proctor. A sworn officer — texting about

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18:30

Why Did It Take Five Years To Believe Sandra Birchmore?

The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore ·

2026/05/29

Sandra Birchmore trusted the people who were supposed to protect her. She was twenty-three, pregnant, and full of life when she was found dead — and for five long years, the official story was that she did it to herself. Her family never believed it. They fought. And now, finally, the record has changed.This community has stood with Sandra from the start, and this is the update so many of you have been waiting for. Months before the trial of the former police officer accused of killing her, the

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31:06

Sandra Birchmore Was Making Plans. Farwell Was...

The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore ·

2026/05/03

Sandra Birchmore believed things were getting better. Matthew Farwell brought ginger ale to her apartment. She texted a friend that he was coming around. She was contacting lawyers. She was building a plan for child support. She was preparing for a future with the child she was carrying — a future she believed was finally within reach.Farwell was allegedly having different conversations entirely.According to federal prosecutors, he told one person that if Sandra did not end the pregnancy, he would

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24:13

Sandra Birchmore: Justice Is Finally Coming

The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore ·

2026/05/02

For years, Sandra Birchmore’s family held vigils outside buildings that didn’t want them there. They held signs at the Stoughton Police Department. They demanded answers from a system that had already decided Sandra did this to herself. Then the FBI came.On August 28, 2024, agents arrested Matthew Farwell and charged him with killing Sandra to prevent her from exposing his crimes. A superseding indictment added a charge under the Unborn Victims of Violence Act for the death of her unborn baby boy

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16:27

Sandra Birchmore Deserved a Real Investigation

The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore ·

2026/05/01

Within one hour of finding Sandra Birchmore’s body, officers told the medical examiner there had been no foul play. That call shaped everything. The medical examiner never visited the scene. Canton police misidentified the murder weapon as a scarf. Investigators never compelled a DNA sample from the man seen on surveillance entering Sandra’s building the night she was last seen alive. They let him keep his phone for days. They never searched his home.Federal prosecutors later wrote it plainly: at

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16:33

Sandra Birchmore: What the Forensic Evidence Exposed

The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore ·

2026/04/30

At 9:27 PM on February 1, 2021, Matthew Farwell entered Sandra Birchmore’s apartment building. At 9:56 PM, he left. Twenty-nine minutes. Sandra was never seen alive again. When her body was found three days later, she was wearing the same clothes. Federal prosecutors allege that inside those twenty-nine minutes, Farwell strangled Sandra and her unborn son, then staged the scene.The forensic evidence prosecutors have assembled is devastating. Farwell’s DNA was found on the duffel bag strap used to

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14:24

Sandra Birchmore’s Pregnancy Changed Everything

The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore ·

2026/04/29

Sandra Birchmore believed Matthew Farwell was coming around. He brought ginger ale to her apartment. She texted a friend that things were getting better. She was pregnant, making plans, contacting lawyers, preparing for a future she would never see. Farwell was making different plans entirely.According to federal prosecutors, Farwell told one person that if Sandra didn’t end the pregnancy, he would “take care of the problem himself.” He told another he needed to “put crazy back in the bag.” He told

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16:40

Sandra Birchmore: How It All Began

The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore ·

2026/04/28

Sandra Birchmore wanted to be a cop. She walked into the Stoughton Police Explorers program at twelve years old full of admiration for the badge, looking for belonging, looking for guidance, looking for the kind of structure her difficult childhood hadn’t provided. What she found instead were predators wearing uniforms.Federal prosecutors allege that Matthew Farwell, an instructor in the program, began grooming Sandra almost immediately. By the time she was fifteen and he was twenty-seven, he had

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22:40

Sandra Birchmore: Farwell’s DNA Found on the Strap...

The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore ·

2026/04/22

This is the filing that changes everything heading into October.Federal prosecutors revealed in April 2026 court documents that Matthew Farwell’s DNA was found on the duffel bag strap tied around Sandra Birchmore’s neck — the strap prosecutors are calling the murder weapon. His sperm cells were found in the underwear she was wearing when she was discovered. He told investigators they were last intimate in 2020. According to prosecutors, the forensic evidence proves that was a lie.About two weeks

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13:49

Justice for Sandra Birchmore: Farwell's Dismissal...

The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore ·

2026/03/10

The motion to dismiss has been denied. Former Stoughton police detective Matthew Farwell will stand trial in federal court in October 2026 for the alleged killing of Sandra Birchmore and her unborn child. Chief Judge Denise J. Casper ruled the two-count federal indictment legally sound — and the fight for justice that Sandra's family and supporters have waged for years just cleared one of its biggest legal hurdles.This channel exists because of Sandra. Her story — from the girl who walked into a

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18:28

‘She Lied About Everything’: The Sandra Birchmore...

The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore ·

2025/11/11

“She lied about everything.”That’s what former Massachusetts Deputy Police Chief Robert Devine told the state’s oversight commission when he was asked about Sandra Birchmore — a 23-year-old woman found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts apartment in 2021. But behind that phrase lies one of the most disturbing stories of police corruption, grooming, and betrayal in modern American law enforcement. Sandra Birchmore joined the Stoughton Police Explorers program as a teenager — a mentorship group

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