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How Old Sandra Birchmore Was When She Met the Cop Charged With Killing Her
Sandra Birchmore was 12 years old when she applied to the Stoughton Police Explorers in March 2010. Matthew Farwell, the former Stoughton officer charged with killing her, was an instructor there. Part 1 of the Sandra Birchmore story is what the department's own records, the FBI, and the state's police-standards commission say happened inside that program, and how it ended on the night of February 1, 2021.
The Explorers post was run by Robert Devine, who rose to deputy chief, was demoted after an internal probe found he'd lied, and stayed on the force. The department's 2022 report found…
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