The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore
by 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 inappropriate relationships with men who should have protected her but instead abused their power. Her death, initially ruled a suicide, has raised serious questions about whether justice has truly been served. In this podcast, we delve deep into the events leading up to Sandra’s death, exploring the connections between the officers involved, including potential links to the Canton Police Department. We’ll examine the allegations of a cover-up—was there an attempt to pr
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Sandra Birchmore: Who Let Farwell Stay After WHAT?!
Sandra Birchmore wanted to be a police officer. She joined a program that was supposed to bring young people closer to public service and responsible adults. Instead, the Stoughton Police Explorers became central to an internal investigation into the officers who were entrusted with her. This...
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Sandra Birchmore Was Failed by Farwell and Every Cop Like Him
Sandra Birchmore was failed by Matthew Farwell and by the cops around him, and I name every one of them. Sandra told William Farwell his brother had been with her when she was 15, and he texted back “Nice.” William testified Sgt. John Fanning said he needed the case like a bullet in the head....
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Sandra Birchmore Had Both Farwell Brothers. Only One Is on Trial.
Farwell's lawyers say Matthew Farwell went to Sandra Birchmore's Canton apartment on February 1st, 2021, to end their affair and tell her the baby wasn't his. DNA later proved he wasn't the father, and the defense says Sandra took her own life after he left. Prosecutors say the former Stoughton...
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Sandra Birchmore Sent Farwell a Baby Outfit Photo. She Was Dead Hours Later.
Sandra Birchmore's last text to Matthew Farwell went out at 9:13 p.m. on February 1st, 2021: "Door's open when you get here." A minute later the lobby camera recorded him walking in. Prosecutors say her iPhone stopped counting steps at 9:40, and the camera shows him leaving at 9:43. Eric Faddis…
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Sandra Birchmore’s Strap Got THIS Reaction From the Doctor Farwell Called Last
Sandra Birchmore’s hyoid, the small bone high in her neck, was broken, and on November 4th the final expert in Matthew Farwell’s defense told jurors it may have snapped after she died or as her body convulsed. Dr. Thomas Andrew said her autopsy findings favor suicide. Under cross-examination by...
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The FBI Studied Sandra Birchmore’s Neck Bone and Its Expert Said THIS for Farwell
Sandra Birchmore’s hyoid sat in a jar from 2021 until the FBI took her case in 2024. The FBI sent it to Dr. Angi Christensen’s lab in Quantico, where she CT-scanned it and found one fracture on the right side, from around the time Sandra died. On November 3rd she testified for Matthew Farwell’s...
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Sandra, Lindsay, and Christa — Farwell's Demand, Cooper's Promise, Pike's Pain
Matthew Farwell allegedly demanded Sandra Birchmore re-earn his trust after finding out about his twin brother. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke use that demand as the entry point into a conversation that spans Sandra's case, the Lindsay Clancy civil fight, and Christa Pike's failed execution....
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Sandra Birchmore's Instructor Had a Letter in His File That Said THIS
Sandra Birchmore was twelve when she joined the Stoughton Police Explorers in 2010. By then the department had already had its first look at the two men who would become her instructors. As teenagers in the same program, the Farwell twins were caught playing police with a Crown Victoria and a...
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Sandra Birchmore’s Broken Neck Bone Told Farwell’s Expert THIS
The bone in Sandra Birchmore’s neck came out of a jar in 2024, after the FBI took over her case, and on November 2nd Matthew Farwell’s lawyers called a woman who studies that bone for a living. Dr. Heather Garvin is a forensic anthropologist from Iowa who saw Sandra’s hyoid only in photographs.…
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Sandra's Death Was Suicide, Then Undetermined — Not Homicide. What Now?
The state medical examiner first called Sandra Birchmore's death a suicide. The ruling was changed to "undetermined" — but not to homicide. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke break down whether the defense can drive through that crack. DNA proved Farwell is not the father of Sandra's unborn baby. The...
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Sandra Told Matthew About William. His Answer Was a Demand.
Sandra Birchmore told Matthew Farwell about his twin brother. Prosecutors allege Farwell's answer was to demand she re-earn his trust — not to confront William, not to leave. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke examine the psychology behind the demand and the texts read at trial. Prosecutors say…
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Farwell’s Psychiatrist Studied Sandra Birchmore’s Records and Said This
Dr. Melissa Piasecki, a forensic psychiatrist from Nevada, took the stand for the defense and told the jury that Sandra Birchmore’s therapy notes, childhood records, and 2017 journal all pointed toward suicide risk she’d carry forever. She read from Sandra’s last therapy note and said Sandra…
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Sandra Birchmore Case: Farwell’s Note Said WHAT?!
In the federal trial over Sandra Birchmore's death, prosecutors have discussed a goodbye note Matthew Farwell allegedly wrote on June 24, 2024. It was the day a forensic pathologist's homicide conclusion became public. The note reportedly asked a friend to help raise Farwell's children and care…
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Sandra Birchmore: Her Examiner Learned WHAT Too Late?!
Sandra Birchmore’s case moved through two very different accounts of the same death. The first came from police reports describing suicide and no foul play. The second emerged years later as federal investigators reviewed the evidence against former Stoughton officer Matthew Farwell. At his…
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Sandra Birchmore: Her Officer Admitted WHAT on Duty?!
Sandra Birchmore first knew Stoughton police officers through a youth Explorers program. On October 26, 2026, a man connected to that department and to Sandra took the witness stand and made an admission under oath. William Farwell, the twin brother of accused killer Matthew Farwell, said he had...
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Sandra Birchmore: Why Did Farwell Check Her Closet?!
Sandra Birchmore’s words about an encounter in her apartment were read to jurors in the federal trial of former Stoughton officer Matthew Farwell. She told a friend that Farwell had asked for a key and looked around her closet and bathroom eight days before her death. Birchmore described it as...
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Farwell's Twin Spent Part of His Stoughton Shifts Doing This
Lawyers for Matthew Farwell at the Sandra Birchmore trial have suggested the black pickup truck seen by Sandra's best friend was his twin brother William's. Matthew pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he killed Sandra and her unborn baby. William, a former Stoughton officer, was called by...
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Sandra Birchmore and Lori Vallow: Farwell Snapped a Pole in Two and Pointed to THIS
Police reports say former Stoughton detective Matthew Farwell's truck snapped a pole in two while the FBI looked into the Sandra Birchmore case. Lori Vallow Daybell's appeal comes before Idaho's justices on November 2, 2026. Farwell's explanation to officers was a deer, which he said ran beneath...
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Did Elizabeth Holmes Know What Her Partner Was Doing at A24?
Elizabeth Holmes told Nathan Fielder she’d never lied, she did nothing wrong at Theranos, and she was making the A24 documentary You Can See Everything for free. She’s in federal prison for wire fraud. Before prison she handed Billy Evans power of attorney — the legal right to sign her name and…
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How Sandra Birchmore's Case Would Follow Farwell Into Any Prison Yard
In the Sandra Birchmore case, prosecutors say former Stoughton officer Matthew Farwell killed her when she was pregnant and staged it as a suicide. He's pleaded not guilty, and if this jury convicts him, he'd face life without parole. According to prosecutors, Sandra's mom put her in Stoughton's...
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What Sandra Birchmore’s Ex Wrote on Her Reasons Not to Die
William Kilroy dated Sandra Birchmore in 2016 and was still in her life when she wrote a 2017 journal page listing her reasons to end her life and her reasons not to. On the witness stand, he told the jury he’d added something at the bottom in his own handwriting. Sandra talked to him about…
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Sandra Birchmore's Case Stalled at the DA's Office Over THIS
The Sandra Birchmore case has a May 2021 suicide ruling and a 2024 homicide opinion from a former New York City chief medical examiner her family hired. Matthew Farwell, the former Stoughton detective on trial, has pleaded not guilty. The DA filed no charges and pointed to the suicide ruling. The...
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What Sandra Birchmore's Accused Killer Left in a Friend's Hands
Two days after Sandra Birchmore's body was found, former Stoughton police detective Matthew Farwell told troopers in a school parking lot their relationship started in 2020. The trooper who interviewed him testified that was a lie, and prosecutors say it started when she was 15. Prosecutors also...
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Sandra Birchmore and Lori Vallow's Niece: What Farwell's Twin and Melani Said
This full episode closes on Sandra Birchmore and William Farwell, the twin brother who testified with immunity at Matthew Farwell's federal murder trial on October 26th and 27th. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me on William, who says he didn't believe Sandra when she told him she was 15 the...
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Sandra Birchmore's Text to William Farwell Got This Answer
William Farwell testified with immunity at his twin Matthew's federal murder trial on October 26th and 27th, and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me on the man behind that testimony. In May 2019, Sandra Birchmore texted William that Matthew first slept with her when she was 15. William was a...
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Sandra Birchmore Was Waiting for Farwell When She Sent This
Sandra Birchmore spent the evening of February 1st, 2021, on her phone, the way her friends say she always did. Prosecutors say she sent or received almost 600 texts that day, and that between 8 and 9 p.m. she was searching baby shower venues and children’s furniture. At 9:07, Matthew Farwell…
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Sandra Birchmore, Bryan Kohberger and Anna Kepner: Which Ex-Cop Testified Under a Deal
Investigators say messages put William Farwell outside Sandra Birchmore's building after midnight on January 10, 2021, about three weeks before she died. On October 26, Matthew Farwell's twin testified for the prosecution under immunity and admitted being intimate with Sandra while he was a...
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Farwell's Twin Testified He Didn't Think His Brother Was THIS
Matthew Farwell's twin brother William told a federal jury on October 27th what he thought of his brother when Sandra Birchmore said she was 15 the first time they were together. William testified that in December 2020, Sandra told him she was pregnant and believed the baby was Matthew's. Five…
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Sandra Birchmore's Police File Ruled Out This Before Her Autopsy
In the Matthew Farwell trial, Sandra Birchmore's medical examiner testified that police intake materials described multiple antidepressants, but only one was logged. Dr. María del Mar Capó-Martínez said the police paperwork she was handed had already ruled out foul play and pointed to suicide...
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Sandra Birchmore, Gypsy Rose and Lori Vallow's Niece: Whose Words Count?
On October 23rd, Matthew Farwell's lawyer used Sandra Birchmore's own words to tell a jury she took her own life: a 2020 Facebook message, notes of a depressed mood, the medicine she'd just started. Her therapist answered that Sandra was worried about her apartment the day before she died, eight...
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What Sandra Birchmore Texted About Farwell's Visit to Her Apartment
After Matthew Farwell's visit on January 23rd, 2021, Sandra Birchmore texted friends that he had asked for a key to her apartment and looked in her closet. On January 31st, she told her therapist she was afraid something would happen to her there. Robin Dreeke and I talk through what came out in...
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Sandra Birchmore's Autopsy Doctor Told Jurors THIS About Her 2021 Ruling
Matthew Farwell's twin brother, former Stoughton officer William Farwell, took the stand in the Sandra Birchmore trial on October 26, 2026, and admitted under immunity that he was with Sandra while on duty. He told the jury he asked for immunity because he could be charged for that conduct. He…
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Critical Legal Crossroads: The Standoffs Defining Clancy, Birchmore, and Kepner
In the Sandra Birchmore case, the federal trial is underway, the autopsy evidence has no documented parallels, and the FBI found over 32,000 texts state police never recovered — but the department that placed Sandra in a police youth program with unsupervised officers when she was twelve has…
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Institutional Failure: How an Unmonitored Police Program Allowed Abuse to Flourish
Sandra was twelve or thirteen years old when Stoughton's police explorer program placed her in a room with adult officers who had unchecked access to vulnerable minors. There were no meaningful background checks. No oversight. Multiple officers allegedly used that access for years. Matthew…
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Sandra Birchmore Said Her Dead Mother Was Holding What?
In her final therapy session, on January 31st, 2021, Sandra Birchmore described a visit from her mother, who had died in 2016. Therapist Diala Alkhalil told the jury in the Matthew Farwell trial on October 23rd that it frightened Sandra, and that it came up after Sandra said she feared for her...
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Stage or Suicide? Dissecting the Crime Scene Artifacts in Sandra Birchmore’s Death
The scene inside Sandra Birchmore's apartment doesn't match the defense's version. A fractured hyoid bone — an injury with no documented parallels in the position the defense describes. A severe chest imprint. Glasses placed neatly on the bed. A locked door. And a digital trail running in the...
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Sandra Birchmore’s Strap Carried WHOSE DNA, Prosecutors Say?!
Federal prosecutors say Matthew Farwell’s DNA was found on the duffel-bag strap involved in Sandra Birchmore’s death. That forensic claim sits alongside surveillance footage showing his visit to her building and evidence of messages that disappeared from the phone originally examined by state...
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Sandra Birchmore’s Lead Trooper Was Told to Do WHAT?!
Matthew Farwell was questioned about Sandra Birchmore’s death in a school parking lot. Trooper Matthew Dunne told a federal jury the conversation was not recorded and no notes were taken. He said the decision was tactical and attributed those interview choices to case supervisor Sgt. John…
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Sandra Birchmore’s Warning Call Reached WHO at the Station?!
A friend contacted the Stoughton Police Department in January 2021 with concerns about Sandra Birchmore and an officer. Federal prosecutors allege that a department employee relayed information about that warning to Matthew Farwell. The indictment does not identify his twin brother William as the...
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Sandra Birchmore’s Last Visitor Wore WHAT to Her Building?!
Sandra Birchmore’s apartment building camera captured Matthew Farwell entering with a face covering on the evening prosecutors say he killed her. A Stoughton police colleague told jurors that Farwell disliked masks, making the footage unusually important to the prosecution’s account. Farwell’s...
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Sandra Birchmore’s Last Visitor Wore WHAT to Her Building?!
Sandra Birchmore’s apartment building camera captured Matthew Farwell entering with a face covering on the evening prosecutors say he killed her. A Stoughton police colleague told jurors that Farwell disliked masks, making the footage unusually important to the prosecution’s account. Farwell’s...
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Sandra Birchmore’s Final Plans Said WHAT About Her Death?!
Sandra Birchmore was preparing for a child when her life ended. At Matthew Farwell’s federal trial, her plans for motherhood have become a direct challenge to the defense account that she acted in sudden despair. The difference between those accounts is central to what jurors must decide.…
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Sandra Birchmore: Farwell’s Phone Searches Said WHAT?!
Sandra Birchmore’s final evening is being reconstructed through a phone, building surveillance video, and courtroom testimony. FBI examiner Christopher Beckstrom testified that her phone was last unlocked at 9:13 p.m. on February 1, 2021. It recorded steps at 9:40 p.m. Eight days later, searches...
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Sandra Birchmore Investigators Left WHAT Unchecked?!
Sandra Birchmore’s death was initially treated as self-inflicted. Her case returned to federal court with a very different allegation against former Stoughton officer Matthew Farwell. Prosecutors now say he killed Sandra and staged the scene. A state lab had already found male DNA on a strap at…
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Sandra Birchmore and Alex Murdaugh: How Close Were the Cops to the Crime?
Eric Faddis joins me for a full episode on Sandra Birchmore, with a segment on Alex Murdaugh's latest hearing. On Sandra's case, Eric weighs the five biggest hurdles for Matthew Farwell's defense, including the DNA prosecutors say was on the strap and the lobby video of Farwell in a mask. We go...
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Sandra Birchmore's Chief Is Sitting on a Report About THIS
Chief Donna McNamara released the 2022 report that named Matthew Farwell, William Farwell, and Robert Devine, and recommended the state pull their certifications. In July, she says, Town Hall moved to push her out. Eric Faddis joins me to walk through her lawsuit. McNamara says Town Manager…
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Farwell Had Four Women. Only Sandra Birchmore Got the Mask and the Delete Orders.
Four women have now described what it was like to be with Matthew Farwell, and only one of them got the mask. Sarah Sproul, Samantha McCue and Stoughton officer Sheanna Zbinski testified on October 22 that he never disguised himself and never told them to delete a text. Sandra Birchmore got both....
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Sandra Birchmore's Chief Learned About Farwell's Masked Video From Whom?
Sandra Birchmore's friend called Stoughton police on January 20, 2021, to report Matthew Farwell. A dispatcher testified he walked that call to Farwell's office and was told to forget it. Twelve days later Sandra was dead. Eric Faddis joins me to go through the five biggest signs of a cover-up…
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Sandra Birchmore Was Found With Matthew Farwell's DNA on THIS
Sandra Birchmore told friends about her baby, planned a baby shower, and paid her nursing school tuition in the days before she was found dead in her Canton apartment, according to prosecutors. Eric Faddis joins me to weigh what that means against Matthew Farwell's suicide defense. Prosecutors…
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What Sandra’s Officers Did to Her Mind — and Why the Coverup Is Still Happening
What these officers did to Sandra Birchmore’s mind — and why the coverup is allegedly still happening — is the focus of a comprehensive four-part interview with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott. Scott, author of Nightbird, examines the case from every angle: how officers allegedly used a youth…
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About this show
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 inappropriate relationships with men who should have protected her but instead abused their power. Her death, initially ruled a suicide, has raised serious questions about whether justice has truly been served.
In this podcast, we delve deep into the events leading up to Sandra’s death, exploring the connections between the officers involved, including potential links to the Canton Police Department. We’ll examine the allegations of a cover-up—was there an attempt to pr
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