At a hearing in the ongoing wrongful death lawsuit filed in civil court by the estate of Sandra Birchmore, a lawyer for the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office revealed new details about a ...

Lisa Maki, the general counsel for the attorney general’s office, argued that disclosure of the records could compromise the ongoing investigation and that turning witness statements over to the ...

Sandra Birchmore’s death had been ruled a suicide by a state medical examiner after the 23-year-old was found hanging in her Canton, Massachusetts apartment back in February 2021.

Local News Death of Sandra Birchmore was a homicide, prominent doctor says Dr. Michael Baden wrote in a letter earlier this month that Birchmore’s injuries, including the placement of a ligature ...

Birchmore at 12 years old joined the Police Explorers Academy, a youth program run by the SPD for which Farwell taught. Prosecutors say Farwell first groomed the girl and then took her virginity ...

Federal prosecutors say Farwell began having sex with Birchmore when she was 15 and he was a 27-year-old police officer. The age of consent in Massachusetts is 16. She died Feb. 1, 2021, in her ...

Prior to her death, Birchmore claimed she was pregnant with Farwell’s child. “She had a passion for life,” Varner said of Birchmore. “Sandra always had a good day – there wasn’t a bad day.

Birchmore insisted that Farwell put his name on the baby’s birth certificate, that he be there for the delivery, and be involved afterward, because, she said, “your kid should matter.” ...

STOUGHTON — In a dramatic change, federal prosecutors charged former Stoughton cop Matthew Farwell with killing Sandra Birchmore. Local and state prosecutors had ruled her death a suicide ...