Matthew Farwell hated masks. Prosecutors say he put one on for the first time the night Sandra Birchmore died — the one night his face needed to be hidden. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines what happens inside the mind of an officer who allegedly maintains two separate lives and the behavioral Read more…
Sandra Birchmore wanted to have Matthew Farwell’s baby. She believed the officer who had access to her since childhood loved her. When DNA testing showed Farwell was not the biological father, what Sandra felt about that result tells psychotherapist Shavaun Scott everything about how deeply Sandra’s reality had been distorted. Read more…
The trooper. The examiner. The supervisor. The brother. Sandra Birchmore’s death went through all four, and every one of them is now a reason the FBI had to start over. Trooper Dunne testified he never recorded the Farwell interview, skipped the autopsy, never interviewed a neighbor, and learned Farwell lied. Read more…
When Caleb Flynn said “God is my judge” after his conviction, most people heard arrogance. Timmy Gibson heard something more specific. Gibson pastored evangelical churches for three decades before leaving. On Homicide Happy Hour, he explained the theology behind Flynn’s statement. The Bible teaches that the primary relationship to repair Read more…
A three-minute phone call to the Stoughton Police Department on January 20th, 2021, should have ended Matthew Farwell’s career. Instead, prosecutors say, it ended Sandra Birchmore’s life. The caller reported Sandra’s relationship with Farwell. She was put on hold twice. The recording was later auto-deleted. A department employee allegedly tipped Read more…
The first murder case against Barry Morphew collapsed in April 2022. The prosecution’s tranquilizer theory had no body to support it. Seventeen months later, Suzanne Morphew’s remains were recovered in Saguache County — roughly fifty miles south of the family home, in a county outside the original search. Bone testing Read more…
Sgt. John Fanning supervised the Massachusetts State Police unit that ruled Sandra Birchmore’s death a suicide. Prosecutors told the jury that when Fanning interviewed Matthew Farwell’s twin brother William on February 11th, 2021, he said they needed an investigation like they needed a bullet in the head. Nothing criminal. Not Read more…
Sandra Birchmore’s doctor screened her for depression on January 21. She scored high. The last question asked whether she’d had any thoughts of hurting herself in the past seven days. Sandra scored a zero. Eight days later, at her last appointment, she reported no bleeding and nothing worse than jitters Read more…
Nicholas Guarino held Sandra Birchmore’s digital life in his hands. Her password was Matthew Farwell’s name. He got into her laptop with it. Then he searched Farwell’s phone for messages with Sandra, found zero, and gave the phone back. Prosecutors say Farwell had already deleted everything after his parking lot Read more…
Trooper Matthew Dunne had one chance to get Matthew Farwell on the record about the night Sandra Birchmore died. He chose a school parking lot, no recorder, no notebook, and testified he did it so Farwell wouldn’t lawyer up. Farwell told him the relationship started in 2020 and they’d met Read more…