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Sandra Birchmore’s Journal Had THIS Written at the Bottom

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Farwell’s defense called Sandra Birchmore’s ex-boyfriend to show the jury a page from her journal listing reasons to end her life and reasons not to. At the bottom, William Kilroy says, he wrote something in his own hand. He told the jury Sandra talked about wanting to join her grandmother and later threatened to kill herself and name him in the note. The medical examiner’s office kept a bone from Sandra’s neck in a jar for more than three years but never had the broken necklace that was around her neck when she was found. A relative found it on Sandra’s bedroom floor. Prosecutors pressed Kilroy on cross and asked if Sandra was a fighter, if she was resilient. He said yes to each. Everything Kilroy described happened three to five years before Sandra died, and in all of his testimony, Matthew Farwell’s name never came up. The defense calls its psychiatrist Friday. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292 Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1 Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #HiddenKillers #FarwellTrial #TrueCrime #WilliamKilroy #Defense #MedicalExaminer #FederalTrial #Justice

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