Matthew Farwell Killed a Pregnant Woman. How Does He Sleep at Night?
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me on Hidden Killers for the full conversation after a federal jury convicted former Stoughton detective Matthew Farwell of killing Sandra Birchmore and her unborn child. We start with how he lives with it.
Farwell walked into Sandra’s building in a hood and mask and walked out at 9:43. About 13 hours later, according to the FBI, his own son was born. Shavaun talks about what a man tells himself after that, and whether a husband and father can love his family and still do this.
Sandra called him Officer Farwell in high school. Prosecutors said what happened between them started when she was fifteen. She later wanted his name on her baby’s birth certificate, and Shavaun explains why she kept holding on.
His twin brother, also a Stoughton cop, testified he didn’t believe Sandra when she told him her age, and a dispatcher testified he was told to forget a call about her and Farwell.
The defense argued suicide and walked jurors through Sandra’s private pain. Farwell faces mandatory life at sentencing in February.
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