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Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her Canton apartment in February 2021. Federal prosecutors allege that former Stoughton officer Matthew Farwell killed her and staged the scene. Now they are asking jurors to assess DNA from the duffel bag strap found around her neck. Tony Brueski and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examine that evidence alongside an unresolved dispute over police records. Prosecutors say Farwell’s DNA was recovered from the strap. They point to surveillance video of his visit to the apartment building and the timing of the last activity on Sandra’s phone. Their presentation also emphasizes communications they allege were deleted and Sandra’s plans for her unborn child and a nursing career. Defense lawyers say Farwell visited to end their relationship and that Sandra later died by suicide. Farwell denies the charges. At the same time, Stoughton Police Chief Donna McNamara has accused Town Manager Thomas Calter of demanding that she destroy a second internal affairs report connected to the Birchmore case. Calter disputes the allegation. Reporting indicates that inquiry addressed the way the department handled a friend’s warning call in January 2021. The report’s findings have not been publicly established, and their relationship to the criminal trial remains an open question. Faddis considers how DNA may support or fail to settle a contested timeline, what jurors can take from surveillance and digital records, and why separate allegations of misconduct by police officials require careful verification. The evidence being tested at trial concerns Sandra’s death; the report dispute concerns how her warnings were handled. Both demand answers, but neither answers the other automatically. 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 #EricFaddis #FarwellTrial #StoughtonPolice #DonnaMcNamara #TrueCrime #JusticeForSandra #TrueCrimePodcast

Matthew Farwell spoke to the state investigators examining Sandra Birchmore's death, but their pivotal school-parking-lot interview produced no recording and no notes. Trooper Matthew Dunne told jurors that his supervisor, Sgt. John Fanning, approved the approach to keep the conversation informal. The idea was to avoid pushing Farwell to stop talking. Was the price of that strategy too high? Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her Canton apartment in February 2021. Federal prosecutors allege that Farwell, a former Stoughton police detective, killed her and staged her death as suicide. Farwell has pleaded not guilty and maintains that Birchmore ended her own life. The trial places the initial state investigation under an unusual spotlight: prosecutors are asking jurors to consider what police failed to obtain, preserve and follow up. Dunne testified that Farwell made misleading statements about the history of his relationship with Birchmore. He also acknowledged that he did not interview Farwell's coworkers. Bob Motta explores how those gaps affect a case built on disputed accounts. A question about what a person said is harder to resolve when the interview leaves no audio record. Eric Faddis examines the digital and departmental evidence. Nicholas Guarino testified he did not find Birchmore messages during his search of Farwell's phone and that the device was returned. Later FBI work recovered extensive communications from Birchmore's devices. Witness testimony about how police leadership learned of the lobby surveillance video adds another concern about communication within the Stoughton department. There are legal differences between a flawed investigation, negligent supervision and an intentional cover-up. Tony Brueski and his guests focus on the decisions the witnesses described and what proof would be needed before moving from an accusation of incompetence to one of deliberate misconduct. 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 #TrueCrimeToday #JohnFanning #StoughtonPolice #PoliceInvestigation #FarwellTrial #HiddenKillers #BobMotta #TrueCrimePodcast

Sandra Birchmore’s friend called the Stoughton Police Department to report a relationship involving officer Matthew Farwell. The federal indictment alleges someone working at the department told Farwell about the call. The government has not identified that employee in the indictment, leaving an important gap in the story of how the warning was handled. Prosecutors allege Matthew later killed Sandra and made the scene look like a suicide. He has pleaded not guilty and his defense says Sandra took her own life. Bob Motta examines how investigators should preserve complaints, identify who handled them, and separate an internal policy failure from evidence that a particular person committed a crime. A department investigation completed in 2022 identified serious misconduct by three former Stoughton officers: Matthew Farwell, his twin brother William Farwell, and former deputy chief Robert Devine. William was permanently decertified in September 2024. The state disciplinary record identifies false information to investigators and other alleged misconduct, but does not establish that William was the source of the warning to Matthew. The conflict extends to Stoughton’s leadership. Police Chief Donna McNamara alleges Town Manager Thomas Calter demanded that she destroy a report produced in connection with a second internal investigation of the Birchmore matter. Calter denies her allegations. Both officials were placed on administrative leave as the town launched separate investigations. Tony Brueski and Bob Motta unpack the legal significance of the call and the department’s documented findings. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott considers the pressure on people who report wrongdoing when their institution is accused of failing to protect them. The central question is what the available records can actually prove about the warning and its aftermath. 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 #StoughtonPolice #WilliamFarwell #DonnaMcNamara #BobMotta #ShavaunScott #TrueCrime #JusticeForSandra

A Massachusetts State Police examiner searched Matthew Farwell’s phone for messages with Sandra Birchmore, came up empty, and returned the device. That was Nicholas Guarino’s account to the federal jury. Investigators had already obtained Sandra’s laptop using a password containing Farwell’s name, found through her DoorDash account. Guarino said his phone examination was limited to the communications he had been directed to locate. The FBI later recovered roughly 24,000 communications between Farwell and Birchmore from her devices. Prosecutors say Farwell had deleted messages after investigators first questioned him. The state does not have the phone it gave back. Tony Brueski and defense attorney Bob Motta examine why preserving an original device matters when forensic searches produce conflicting results. The defense also challenged Guarino over an earlier MacBook extraction that was not retained. He described an external drive failure and said no evidence was intentionally withheld. The jury is left to consider both the scope of the initial investigation and the digital records federal agents ultimately recovered. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott addresses the human consequences of Sandra’s connections to Stoughton police officers. Former deputy chief Robert Devine was linked to the youth program that brought officers into Sandra’s life. During disciplinary proceedings, his lawyer described Sandra as dishonest; Devine disputes allegations against him. Scott’s analysis explores how authority and dependence can affect a young person without claiming to know Sandra’s private thoughts. Farwell has pleaded not guilty to charges connected to Sandra’s death and the death of her unborn child. His defense maintains she died by suicide. 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 #TrueCrimeToday #NicholasGuarino #RobertDevine #StoughtonPolice #DigitalEvidence #ShavaunScott #FarwellTrial #TrueCrime

Forty years of movies, books, and mythology say the devil made Arne Johnson do it. Arne Johnson has never said that. Not once. What he told police the night Alan Bono died: "I need help because I've got a drinking problem." His attorney: "The priests said that. The Warrens said that." Judge Callahan barred the possession defense before a single juror sat down. The jury convicted Johnson of manslaughter, not murder. The Glatzel family received $4,500 from the deals. The Warrens received more than $81,000. Lorraine told 11-year-old David he'd be a rich little boy. Carl Jr. discovered their mother had been putting Sominex into the family's food — a secret she took to the grave. The Conjuring franchise has grossed over $2 billion. Alan Bono is a footnote in every version. 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. #DevilMadeHimDoIt #ArneJohnson #TheConjuring #DemonicPossession #JudgeCallahan #EdAndLorraineWarren #BrookfieldCT #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #DevilOnTrial