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Matthew Farwell’s Motive Depends on WHAT He Believed?!
The DNA result in Sandra Birchmore’s case creates a simple fact with a complicated legal consequence: Matthew Farwell was not the biological father of her unborn child. Prosecutors still say the pregnancy matters to motive because they allege Birchmore told Farwell the baby was his and that his own communications show he believed her.
Farwell has pleaded not guilty to federal charges accusing him of killing Birchmore and causing the death of her unborn child. The government alleges he strangled her on February 1, 2021 and staged the Canton apartment to look like suicide. The defense maintains…
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