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 se...
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Nov 13, 2026 · 59:50
Sandra Birchmore's family heard the word guilty for Matthew Farwell, convicted by a federal jury of killing Sandra and her unborn son, and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me…
Nov 13, 2026 · 13:14
Sandra Birchmore's private life was laid out in a federal courtroom so Matthew Farwell's lawyers could argue she took her own life. The jury rejected that and convicted Farwell…
Nov 12, 2026 · 15:09
Sandra Birchmore told people about Matthew Farwell long before anyone stopped him. After a federal jury convicted Farwell of killing her and her unborn son, psychotherapist…
Nov 12, 2026 · 14:41
Sandra Birchmore wanted Matthew Farwell in her baby's life, and after a federal jury convicted him of killing her and her unborn son, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott helps me…
Nov 12, 2026 · 17:44
Sandra Birchmore's case ended with a conviction: a federal jury found Matthew Farwell guilty of killing her and her unborn son. I asked psychotherapist Shavaun Scott how the man…
Nov 12, 2026 · 1:02:38
Sandra Birchmore's jury hit a wall after about ten hours and told Judge Denise Casper it was deadlocked. Bob Motta of Defense Diaries read the wall as the motive half of the…
Nov 12, 2026 · 15:06
What if Sandra Birchmore's case moved from a federal courtroom with no cameras to a state courtroom where everyone could watch? Bob Motta of Defense Diaries explains how that…
Nov 11, 2026 · 12:47
What if Matthew Farwell walked out of federal court not guilty? Bob Motta of Defense Diaries says Sandra Birchmore's case is in federal court only because the local DA wouldn't…
Nov 11, 2026 · 24:19
Sandra Birchmore's family heard Matthew Farwell found guilty in federal court, and her cousin Barbara Wright said the state should have done this itself. Norfolk County's…
Nov 11, 2026 · 18:00
Sandra Birchmore went to Walmart and had something copied for the man prosecutors say came to kill her. Bob Motta of Defense Diaries says that receipt is the reason Matthew…
Nov 11, 2026 · 17:44
Sandra Birchmore had a baby on the way and something to live for, and Bob Motta of Defense Diaries says that's why the defense story of a sudden suicide falls apart. Once Sandra…
Nov 11, 2026 · 1:00:47
In both Sandra Birchmore's case and Nancy Guthrie's case, the first investigators made up their minds fast. Prosecutors told the jury State Police treated Sandra's death as a…
Nov 10, 2026 · 16:49
Sandra Birchmore's family waited almost six years to hear a jury call Matthew Farwell guilty, and as they sobbed, Farwell's attorney rubbed his back. This is the full account of…
Nov 10, 2026 · 14:31
Sandra Birchmore wanted this baby. Her friends, her therapist and prosecutors all told the jury so. In closing arguments on Nov. 6, 2026, Matthew Farwell's defense told jurors…
Nov 10, 2026 · 17:28
Sandra Birchmore told people everything, prosecutor Elizabeth Riley reminded the jury, down to a hangnail or being hungry. On the night she died, she sent nothing. In closing…
Nov 10, 2026 · 1:01:20
Sandra Birchmore's case leads this full episode with retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, alongside Alex Murdaugh and Nancy Guthrie. Jen rates the evidence against…
Nov 9, 2026 · 27:47
Sandra Birchmore had an ultrasound on her refrigerator and a hair appointment booked for February 13th, 2021, and prosecutors say she applied to nursing school on the day she…
Nov 9, 2026 · 19:34
Sandra Birchmore's case sat closed as a suicide for more than three years before the FBI arrested Matthew Farwell in August 2024. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer…
Nov 9, 2026 · 15:35
Sandra Birchmore's family waits on closing arguments Friday, November 6th, in the federal trial of Matthew Farwell, the former Stoughton detective prosecutors say strangled her…
Nov 8, 2026 · 29:50
The medical examiner’s original determination said Sandra Birchmore died by suicide. Then came the testimony about what her office actually knew. Dr. María del Mar Capó-Martínez…
Nov 7, 2026 · 50:48
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…
Nov 6, 2026 · 25:34
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…
Nov 6, 2026 · 16:19
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…
Nov 6, 2026 · 15:51
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…
Nov 5, 2026 · 20:39
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…
Nov 4, 2026 · 16:22
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…
Nov 4, 2026 · 1:02:32
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…
Nov 3, 2026 · 31:22
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…
Nov 3, 2026 · 20:16
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…
Nov 3, 2026 · 13:09
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…
Nov 3, 2026 · 19:17
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.…
Nov 2, 2026 · 23:39
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…
Nov 1, 2026 · 28:06
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…
Nov 1, 2026 · 34:19
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…
Oct 31, 2026 · 33:15
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…
Oct 31, 2026 · 29:18
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…
Oct 31, 2026 · 19:42
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…
Oct 31, 2026 · 1:02:09
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…
Oct 30, 2026 · 26:41
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…
Oct 30, 2026 · 12:29
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…
Oct 30, 2026 · 20:09
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…
Oct 30, 2026 · 16:32
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…
Oct 30, 2026 · 15:28
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…
Oct 30, 2026 · 1:02:42
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.…
Oct 30, 2026 · 19:07
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…
Oct 29, 2026 · 36:51
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,…
Oct 29, 2026 · 1:01:47
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…
Oct 28, 2026 · 39:26
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.…
Oct 28, 2026 · 15:02
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…
Oct 28, 2026 · 1:03:27
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…
Oct 28, 2026 · 15:21
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…
Oct 27, 2026 · 30:54
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…
Oct 27, 2026 · 58:27
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 —…
Oct 26, 2026 · 13:24
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…
Oct 26, 2026 · 25:51
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…
Oct 26, 2026 · 13:48
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…
Oct 26, 2026 · 30:08
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…
Oct 25, 2026 · 33:24
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…
Oct 25, 2026 · 31:29
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…
Oct 25, 2026 · 22:31
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…
Oct 25, 2026 · 36:16
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…
Oct 24, 2026 · 29:03
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…
Oct 24, 2026 · 34:19
Sandra Birchmore’s final evening is being reconstructed through a phone, building surveillance video, and courtroom testimony. FBI examiner Christopher Beckstrom testified that…
Oct 24, 2026 · 35:36
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…
Oct 24, 2026 · 1:00:40
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…
Oct 23, 2026 · 12:49
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…
Oct 23, 2026 · 22:07
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…
Oct 23, 2026 · 15:10
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…
Oct 23, 2026 · 17:09
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…
Oct 23, 2026 · 1:01:45
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…
Oct 23, 2026 · 16:35
The chief who exposed the officers connected to Sandra Birchmore says she was told to destroy the evidence of a second investigation — and when she refused, she was the one…
Oct 22, 2026 · 9:32
What William Farwell did while Sandra Birchmore was pregnant with his twin brother’s baby is one of the details that tells psychotherapist Shavaun Scott how this group of…
Oct 22, 2026 · 25:45
Sandra Birchmore was already dead when Matthew Farwell texted his desk mate from his wife's hospital room, asking if anything was going on and saying he was bored. Detective…
Oct 22, 2026 · 18:37
Matthew Farwell allegedly drove to his wife’s hospital room from Sandra Birchmore’s apartment building — still wearing the same clothes. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines…
Oct 22, 2026 · 17:57
A psychotherapist who specializes in the kind of damage allegedly done to Sandra Birchmore examines what the legal case alone cannot show — how completely Sandra’s mind was…
Oct 22, 2026 · 1:02:10
This is the full Bob Motta episode on the four officers who had Sandra Birchmore's death in their hands before the FBI took it. Part one: Trooper Matthew Dunne, the unrecorded…
Oct 22, 2026 · 14:45
January 20th, 2021. A friend of Sandra Birchmore's calls Stoughton police to report her relationship with Matthew Farwell. Three minutes. On hold twice. The recording later…
Oct 21, 2026 · 18:04
On February 11th, 2021, Sgt. John Fanning and Trooper Matthew Dunne interviewed William Farwell about his twin brother and Sandra Birchmore. William admitted his own relationship…
Oct 21, 2026 · 31:27
A dispatcher testified that when he delivered a message about Sandra’s friend calling, Farwell “got visibly and audibly upset with me. His facial expression changed to anger.”…
Oct 21, 2026 · 12:50
Sandra Birchmore's DoorDash password was mfarwell1. State police examiner Nicholas Guarino found it on her iPhone and used it to get into her MacBook. Then he examined Matthew…
Oct 21, 2026 · 17:29
Matthew Farwell sat in a school parking lot with two state troopers days after Sandra Birchmore's body was found and told them the relationship started in 2020. Trooper Matthew…
Oct 21, 2026 · 17:27
Matthew Farwell gave State Police his personal phone. Then he reached for his department-issued device. Eight days after Sandra Birchmore's death, he searched it for…
Oct 20, 2026 · 17:24
An FBI agent and a federal prosecutor divided the texts between them and read Matthew Farwell's exchanges with Sandra Birchmore to the jury. Farwell told Sandra he figured she…
Oct 20, 2026 · 31:31
In 2019, Sandra Birchmore told Matthew Farwell her period was late. His answer: "Why wouldn't you just take care of it?" Sandra Birchmore trial update: FBI Special Agent Heidi…
Oct 20, 2026 · 1:03:15
The FBI built the Sandra Birchmore murder case on evidence that already existed in state hands. Not a single sample had been tested. In Ken Urker's case, the first person inside…
Oct 19, 2026 · 10:56
The prosecution has Farwell's DNA on the strap, phone data that puts him in her building, and a motive prosecutors say started when Sandra Birchmore was fifteen. The defense has…
Oct 19, 2026 · 19:49
Sandra Birchmore kept a list of baby names in her phone. The last name was Matthew — after the man prosecutors allege killed her. She was sending him ultrasound images days…
Oct 19, 2026 · 16:43
The Stoughton police department, the Norfolk DA's office, and the medical examiner all reached the same conclusion about Sandra Birchmore's death. Prosecutors in Matthew…
Oct 19, 2026 · 18:03
The samples were in evidence. Prosecutors in Matthew Farwell's federal murder trial say State Police collected DNA from the duffel bag strap used to stage Sandra Birchmore's…
Oct 18, 2026 · 27:55
Sandra Birchmore’s phone recorded eight steps shortly before Matthew Farwell exited her building, according to federal prosecutors. Years before that night, Massachusetts police…
Oct 17, 2026 · 31:43
Sandra Birchmore told friends Matthew Farwell had made a complete 180, prosecutors say. After a friend alerted Stoughton police to their long-standing relationship, the former…
Oct 17, 2026 · 1:04:27
Sandra Birchmore sent six hundred texts the day she died. She told eighty people about her baby and searched baby shower venues. Matthew Farwell's DNA is on the weapon. He walked…
Oct 17, 2026 · 19:13
Sandra Birchmore's phone went silent three minutes before Farwell left her building. Cameras put him there for twenty-nine minutes, arriving masked and hooded at 9:14 PM.…
Oct 16, 2026 · 24:48
Sandra Birchmore’s best friend Lesley Davis told a federal jury she had the last conversation with Sandra anyone can account for — twenty-five minutes on the phone, the evening…
Oct 15, 2026 · 24:54
The man inside Sandra Birchmore’s apartment the night she died told investigators the child she was carrying wasn’t his. He said the relationship began in 2020 and that they’d…
Oct 15, 2026 · 1:03:00
Sandra Birchmore's suicide ruling stood from May 2021 until April 2026, when the state medical examiner withdrew it after a pathologist hired by her family concluded she was…
Oct 14, 2026 · 16:19
After Sandra Birchmore was found dead on February 4, 2021, prosecutors say state troopers never asked a judge for a warrant to search Matthew Farwell's home or his phone, and…
Oct 14, 2026 · 15:56
Sandra Birchmore sent roughly six hundred texts the day she died and never said goodbye. Prosecutors put that fact before the jury on the first day of Matthew Farwell's federal…
Oct 14, 2026 · 15:04
Your questions about the defense of Matthew Farwell go straight to Robin Dreeke. Kimberly Stevens opened with one word: affair. She told the jury Farwell made regrettable…
Oct 13, 2026 · 15:14
The questions your letters asked about the prosecution's case against Matthew Farwell go straight to retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke. Prosecutors allege Farwell met…
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