Was Matthew Farwell Checking If His Messages Could Be Found After Sandra Birchmore Died?

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · Oct 19, 2026 · 19m

"I'd be homeschooling an 8-year-old." Sandra Birchmore texted that to Matthew Farwell — calculating what would have happened if they hadn't used protection on April 10, 2013. She was fifteen. He was a Stoughton police officer.

On Day 6 of Farwell's federal murder trial, FBI agents read those messages aloud. Her medical records confirmed birth control requests starting in spring 2013. Her school absences climbed the same month. Farwell wrote he was "addicted." He told her he'd have started earlier — when she was fourteen.

Birchmore's phone recorded its last activity at 9:13 PM on February 1…