What Farwell Wanted to Know Five Days After Sandra Birchmore Was Found

Prosecutors say it took about an hour for local officers to tell the medical examiner's office that Sandra Birchmore's death involved no foul play. It took five years, her family, a newspaper, a famous pathologist, and the FBI to undo that. Part 2 of Sandra's story is the investigation, the declination, and everyone the record shows walked away.

By February 6, 2021, the state had watched a hooded, masked man go into Sandra's building at 9:14 p.m. and come out at 9:43. It had a complex employee's account of a caller who said Sandra's boyfriend, a cop, had threatened to handle the pregnancy himself. It had an autopsy with a fractured hyoid. Detectives sat with Matthew Farwell in a school parking lot, recorded nothing, and the FBI later laid out how video, texts, and Stoughton's own records contradicted nearly everything he said. Then, the FBI says, he used his town phone to look up whether deleted messages come back and whether consent can be taken back in Massachusetts.

His lawyer refused a DNA sample on March 8. The medical examiner ruled suicide on May 21. By the end of 2021 the state was building a larceny case. In September 2022 the Norfolk DA said there was no prosecutable case over what began when Sandra was 15, because Sandra was dead. Matthew Farwell resigned. William Farwell resigned and started a TSA job the same day. Robert Devine retired and practices law. None of them has been charged by the state.

Farwell was arrested by the FBI on August 28, 2024. He has pleaded not guilty. The death certificate was changed to undetermined in 2026. Jury selection begins October 5, and the jury will be allowed to read Sandra's journals.

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