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The Farwell Trial — Part One: The Backstory and Week One of the Trial
In February 2021, 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore was found dead inside her Canton, Massachusetts, apartment. She was pregnant, and her death was initially ruled a suicide.
More than five years later, a former Stoughton police detective is standing trial in federal court, accused of murdering Sandra and staging her death to conceal years of alleged sexual exploitation.
How did a young woman who dreamed of becoming a police officer become the center of one of Massachusetts' most disturbing law enforcement scandals?
In Part One of our coverage of the federal trial of Matthew Farwell, host Jonathan…
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