Sandra Birchmore

Matthew Farwell, the former Stoughton police detective accused of grooming Sandra Birchmore as a teen and then killing her when she became pregnant with his child as an adult, has requested the cancellation of an upcoming hearing so his attorney can have more time to review his case. Farwell is facing federal charges in the death of Birchmore, who was…

Matthew Farwell, the former Stoughton police detective accused of grooming Sandra Birchmore as a teen and then killing her when she became pregnant with his child as an adult, has requested the cancellation of an upcoming hearing so his attorney can have more time to review his case. Farwell is facing federal charges in the death of Birchmore, who was…

People who live in Stoughton and surrounding Massachusetts communities say the Sandra Birchmore case raises questions about how her death, and the alleged cover-up, could happen, and how it could go unanswered for so long. 

The family of Sandra Birchmore is reacting to the decision to charge a former Stoughton police officer with her murder. In a statement to NBC10 Boston, Birchmore’s family said “based on our personal memories of her and the stories we have heard from others close to her, it is clear that Sandra had a huge heart and did everything...

The family of Sandra Birchmore is reacting to the decision to charge a former Stoughton police officer with her murder.

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Twice this week, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey was asked about the Sandra Birchmore case, and both times she spoke forcefuly, saying Birchmore’s family deserves answers and she deserves justice. Former Stoughton Police Officer Matthew Farwell pleaded not guilty last week after he was indicted on charges he strangled Birchmore in early 2021 and tried to stage her death as a…

Relatives of Sandra Birchmore say there has been a sense of relief since charges were brought against a former police detective in Stoughton, Massachusetts. Birchmore died in February 2021, and while her death was initially ruled a suicide, her family and others have said she was killed. Matthew Farwell, who was a detective with the Stoughton Police Department, has been…

Loved ones have long said Sandra Birchmore did not die by suicide, as authorities ruled, and they are reacting to this week’s federal indictment of a former detective accused of killing her.

Legal experts say it’s unusual for federal authorities to become involved in a local investigation, especially twice within the same county, as has happened in the Karen Read and Sandra Birchmore cases.

As friends and family of Sandra Birchmore continue to come to grips with the new allegation, laid out in a federal indictment, that she was killed by the Stoughton police officer with whom she had a yearslong sexual relationship, town officials say they have been working hard to reform the department....

“Everybody in this building is committed to justice for Sandra,”...

More than three years after a pregnant Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts, apartment, the former Stoughton, Massachusetts, police detective with whom she’d allegedly been in a yearslong sexual relationship with was indicted, accused of strangling her and then staging the scene to look like she committed suicide. Former Stoughton Police Det. Matthew Farwell, 38, is accused...

A former Stoughton police detective, now on the other side of the law, faces some serious charges. Matthew Farwell has been charged in the death of Sandra Birchmore, which was previously considered a suicide.

Three years after it was believed Sandra Birchmore took her own life, a former Stoughton, Massachusetts, police detective was arrested for her murder. Former Stoughton Police Det. Matthew Farwell, 38, is accused of killing her in her own Canton home while she was pregnant. It was a three-year long investigation, starting with an internal investigation with Stoughton police, and then…

The federal indictment of a former Massachusetts police detective in the 2021 death of Sandra Birchmore — previously ruled a suicide — is an emotional development for family members and advocates. Matthew Farwell, who was a detective with the Stoughton Police Department, is accused of killing Birchmore and staging her apartment to make it appear she had died by suicide….

Authorities allege that Matthew Farwell strangled Sandra Birchmore in 2021 and staged her apartment to make it appear that she took her own life.

Critical new information helped lead to a new federal charge alleging that Stoughton Police Officer Matthew Farwell killed Sandra Birchmore, whom he’d had a sexual relationship with as a child, and whose death in Canton in 2021 was initially ruled a suicide....

“Sandra Birchmore survived years of grooming, statutory rape and then sexual violence, all at the hands of Matthew Farwell,...

A former Stoughton, Massachusetts, police detective has been federally indicted in the death of Sandra Birchmore, accused of killing her and then staging her apartment to make it appear she had committed suicide.

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Federal investigators have made explosive new allegations in the death Sandra Birchmore, a woman whose death in Canton, Massachusetts, in 2021 was initially ruled a suicide. In an indictment filed this week in Boston’s federal court, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts alleges that Matthew Farwell, who was at the time a detective in Stoughton, killed Birchmore, a 23-year-old...

A former Stoughton, Massachusetts, police detective has been federally indicted in the death of Sandra Birchmore, accused of killing her and then staging her apartment to make it appear she had committed suicide.

A police officer accused of having an inappropriate relationship with Sandra Birchmore was the subject of a Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission status conference Tuesday, where his attorney fought to keep her name out of the proceedings. Former Stoughton Police officer William Farwell is one of three officers accused of having an inappropriate relationship with Birchmore, one…