Suzanne Morphew sent her last confirmed text at 2:11 p.m. on May 9, 2020. Barry Morphew was home by 2:43. By the next morning, Suzanne’s phone was dark, her bicycle was found thrown down a slope, and Barry was a Read more…
William Farwell knew Sandra Birchmore was pregnant with his twin brother Matthew’s baby. Prosecutors allege he participated anyway. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines what that decision reveals about the dynamic between officers who allegedly shared access to the same vulnerable person. Read more…
Matthew Farwell helped train Detective Daniel Barber in 2013 and shared the detective office with him on the four-to-midnight shift. Barber testified that in eight years, Farwell never once reached out off duty to ask what was happening overnight. Then, Read more…
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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 Read more…
