The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore
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 protect these officers at the expense of truth? How did these relationships go unchecked for so long, and why was Sandra’s death so quickly dismissed? "The Murder of Sandra Birchmore" is more than just a true crime podcast; it’s a relentless pursuit of justice. Through in-depth investigations, interviews with experts and those close to the case, and a thorough examination of the facts, we aim to bring to light the truth behind Sandra’s untimely death and the systemic failures that may have contributed to it. If you’re passionate about uncovering the truth and holding those in power accountable, this is the podcast for you. Subscribe now to "The Murder of Sandra Birchmore" and join us as we seek justice for Sandra and ensure that her story is not forgotten.
Episodes
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 Massachusetts consent revocation law and Cellebrite's ability to recover deleted iMessages. In court, the FBI's digital examiner mapped the last movements on Sandra's phone: six steps at 9:10 PM on February 1st, a screen lock at 9:13, eight more steps at 9:40, an...
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 would have said no because she was young. He described getting addicted. He presented himself as a tutor at the library while prosecutors allege the relationship was physical there during her high school years. Asked by the FBI about 2012, Farwell confi...
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 Kelsch spent a day reading the former Stoughton officer's texts to the jury, from April 2013 to the night Sandra died.
He ordered her to clear out a text about that 2013 night, when she was fifteen, and wrote "Good girl" when she obeyed. On December 28, ...
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 the house was a civilian connected to Gypsy Rose Blanchard, and the coroner says there is still no definitive cause of death. Tony and Bob Motta go through both investigations and ask what it means when the evidence chain fails before law enforcement ...
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 a woman's mental health history going back to age six, a medical examiner who changed her own ruling, and an investigation so broken that it took the FBI to reopen it three years later. Tony and Bob Motta go through each pillar of the defense — ...
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 before she died.
On Day 6 of Farwell's federal murder trial, FBI Special Agent Heidi Kelsch identified Birchmore as "the witness" — the witness the federal charge says Farwell killed to prevent from reporting crimes allegedly committed against h...
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 Farwell's federal trial say none of them tested the DNA, recorded the interview, or followed up with witnesses who reported threats. The FBI built its murder case on evidence that already existed in state hands. Tony and Bob Motta walk through the legal expos...
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 death and from the underwear she was wearing when she was found. Neither went to a lab. The interview with the primary person of interest happened in a school parking lot with nothing recorded. Witnesses who reported Farwell's statements about Sandra were...
Sandra Birchmore’s phone recorded eight steps shortly before Matthew Farwell exited her building, according to federal prosecutors. Years before that night, Massachusetts police investigators say another Stoughton officer had been contacting her under a name borrowed from a movie character.
The officer was former deputy chief Robert Devine. Police regulators found that he used the Facebook name “Marty Riggs&r...
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 detective allegedly went from anger to unexpected kindness. Sandra was dead within days.
She had met Farwell through a police youth program as a child. Federal prosecutors allege he began an inappropriate relationship with her while she was underag...
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 in wearing a mask, left twenty-nine minutes later, and deleted every message. The defense says she ended her own life. Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to four murders and wants the plea thrown out. His judge wiped the hearing calendar. His alibi has n...
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. Forensic results identified him as the major DNA contributor on the strap that bound her neck to a closet door handle. Every message between them was erased from his phone before he reached home. His wife was in labor the next morning. Sandra had been tellin...
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 of February 1, 2021. Sandra never mentioned taking her own life.
After Sandra’s death, Davis went to the Canton Police Department, sat down with two officers, and told them to investigate Matthew Farwell. Neither man took notes. On the...
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 been together only a few times in the past year. Phone records and later interviews proved he lied about all of it.
Prosecutors say Sandra and Matthew Farwell exchanged at least 40,000 texts. By the time investigators examined his phone...
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 strangled. Prosecutors say the troopers who closed her case never recorded Matthew Farwell's interview or asked for a warrant for his phone; Farwell is on trial in federal court in Boston. This combined episode puts Sandra's case beside two others where t...
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 never recorded their interview with him. The medical examiner ruled suicide in May 2021. Sandra's family paid for their own answer: Dr. Michael Baden reviewed the autopsy and concluded she was strangled. In April 2026 the medical examiner withdrew the su...
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 trial. Three women testified about the Sandra they knew — each one told the story of someone building toward motherhood, not away from it. Sandra's boss said she'd been planning for the baby, told her coworkers and her students that the father wa...
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 mistakes and did not kill Sandra Birchmore. She used the same phone the prosecution had just built its case on and showed a different woman: Sandra searching the suicide ribbon, pulling up an image asking who would cry, the same day she planned a celebration...
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 Sandra through the Stoughton Police Explorers program when she was 12, was with her by 15, and killed her when she was 23 and pregnant. The prosecution says Farwell did a complete 180 in the twelve days after a friend called police and disclosed the rel...
Sandra Birchmore's trial opened on October 9, 2026, with a prosecutor and a defense lawyer each holding up a different piece of her phone. Torey Cummings showed the jury the last text Sandra ever sent, to Matthew Farwell at 9:10 p.m. on February 1, 2021. She told them the lobby camera caught him coming through the door four minutes later. Kimberly Stevens showed them a search Sandra ran that same afternoon about a suicide rib...
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