Sandra Birchmore: What Investigators Refused to See

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · May 1, 2026 · 16m

Within one hour of finding Sandra Birchmore’s body, officers told the medical examiner there had been no foul play. That call shaped everything. The medical examiner never visited the scene. Canton police misidentified the murder weapon as a scarf. Investigators never compelled a DNA sample from the man seen on surveillance entering Sandra’s building the night she was last seen alive. They let him keep his phone for days. They never searched his home.Federal prosecutors later wrote it plainly: at no point was Matthew Farwell seriously considered as a suspect in a homicide. He was a decorated…