Sandra Birchmore

Scrutiny over Massachusetts State Police’s handling of murder investigations has boiled over in the past year. The Karen Read murder trial and the Sandra Birchmore case — only recently classified as a homicide because the federal government stepped in — have garnered headlines across the region and the nation. Those cases reignited passions for Jennifer Root Bannon, who lost her...

The firm that will audit the police department in Canton, Massachusetts, in the wake of the Karen Read case has been selected.

Supporters of Sandra Birchmore marched from the town hall to the police department in Stoughton, Massachusetts, on Saturday, as organizers say they hope these monthly standouts will keep attention on her case.

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Dozens of supporters of Sandra Birchmore marched from the town hall to the police department in Stoughton, Massachusetts, on Saturday, as organizers say they hope these monthly standouts will keep attention on her case. Birchmore’s supporters, wearing blue and white, say they want her to have a voice because she didn’t have one for the more than three years that...

For more than three years, Sandra Birchmore’s death was ruled a suicide. Because of that, supporters say she didn’t have a voice. Now, they’re trying to change that.

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Federal prosecutors say they intend to introduce DNA evidence in their case against Matthew Farwell, a former Stoughton police detective accused of killing Sandra Birchmore. Farwell has been indicted on a federal charge in the death of 23-year-old Birchmore, who was found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts, apartment in February 2021. She was three months pregnant. Farwell is accused of…

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…

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…

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…

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...