Sandra Birchmore Put THIS on the Sign She Made for Farwell

Before Matthew Farwell's federal trial begins on October 5, 2026, this is Sandra Birchmore's whole story in one place, both parts of the Hidden Killers series combined. It opens on the handmade sign her family found when they cleaned out her apartment, the one she'd made for the man she said was the father, and on what she'd put on it. Who she was. What the Stoughton Police Department's own investigators found was done to her. What the state did with the evidence of her death. And who finally forced the case into a federal courtroom.

Sandra was raised by a chronically ill mother and a great-aunt she called Grandma, and by 19 she'd buried both. She joined the Stoughton Police Explorers at 12 because she wanted to be a police officer. The department's internal report, released in September 2022, found Farwell's inappropriate relationship with her began in the spring of 2013, and that William Farwell and Robert Devine had inappropriate relationships with her as an adult. All three left the department on their own terms and none has been charged by the state.

In December 2020 Sandra sent Farwell a homemade poster announcing she was pregnant. Prosecutors say his answer was that he had nothing to say, and that he later called her the worst person on the face of the earth. Someone who cared about her reported him to the Stoughton Police Department on January 20, 2021, and the FBI says that report was handed to Farwell. On February 1 she told him the door would be open. The building's camera has him inside for 29 minutes, and her phone's last recorded movement is eight steps at 9:40 p.m.

The state ruled it a suicide. Sandra's family, the Boston Globe, Dr. Michael Baden, and the FBI got the case reopened. Farwell has pleaded not guilty; his defense says she took her own life. The medical examiner changed the death certificate to undetermined in 2026.

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