Sandra Birchmore: What Farwell's 180 Looked Like to the People Around Her

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · Oct 13, 2026 · 15m

Federal prosecutors say Stoughton police detective Matthew Farwell strangled Sandra Birchmore in her Canton apartment and staged the scene as a suicide. Massachusetts called it a suicide for three and a half years. Prosecutor Cummings told a jury Farwell met Sandra through a police youth program when she was a child and was allegedly with her by 15. When a friend called Stoughton police and disclosed the relationship, prosecutors say Farwell did a 180. Turned nice. Asked for a key. Sandra told friends he had changed. Twelve days later she was dead. He allegedly walked into her building that…