462: Dateline: The Betrayal of Sandra Birchmore (S33E87)

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🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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ORDER YOUR DUNKIN' AND HIRE A TRANSLATOR, WE'RE GOING BACK TO CANTON, MASS!

For today's episode, we're talking about the tragic murder of 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore, who was found dead in her apartment on February 4, 2021. The death was initially ruled a suicide by the town's CORRUPT medical examiner. It took Sandra's badass cousins and the incredible WOMAN chief to dig deeper and expose the years of abuse and exploitation that Sandra had suffered at the hands of a few local cops to get to the truth. And GP came to work today with ALL of the parallels to the Karen Read case that, incredibly, was being prosecuted in the same town at the same time and involving many of the same people. Honestly, can we get all the good people out of this town, fence it off, and start over? Ugh.

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0:00.0	I can't believe we're here again, but we have to talk about Karen Reid a little bit more.
0:03.5	I mean...
0:04.0	Or at least drag the corrupt cops yet again. I was going to say have to or get to. I mean, we are dragging those canton officers. I'm going to connect all the dots for everyone, don't you worry? Okay, good. They need to go to that town, surround it, and get all the nice people out and then burn it to the ground. I mean, and once a storm is coming? Everyone hunker down because whenever there's a big storm, the corruption is out in full force. Sandra Birchmore, we have your back. We got to help get to the bottom of this girl. Hi, Jillian by the volley. Hello, Patrick Hines. We don't really tell them the things in the interest for the bonus, so tell me a joke. Oh my God. Where do cows go on Saturday nights? Where? The movies. That was a really unexpected. If you had said that to me, I would not have had one at the wedding. I always have that in my back pocket. You do? I should have a couple of more. I feel like real diehard listeners
0:55.0	will be like, you always say that one. Why do birds fly south for the winner? I don't know. Why? Because it's too far to walk. Oh, there you go. See, I like that. I was trying to think of like, what's the obvious, like how, where's the gotcha? Where's the getcha? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, hi, girl. Tell me what we're talking about today.
1:11.2	So this is our 16th bonus episode of the year.
1:13.9	This is a new. Where's the gotcha? Where's the getcha? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, hi, girl. Tell me what we're talking about today.
1:11.2	So this is our 16th bonus episode of the year. This is a new dateline that just came out. It's season 33, episode 87. I know.
1:20.2	The betrayal of Sandra Birchmore. She was really looking forward to creating her own family. We tried our best.
1:30.3	And sorry it wasn't enough.
1:32.3	Because if it was, she would be here.
1:35.3	They found Sandra deceased in her apartment.
1:39.3	I was told that she had committed suicide.
1:42.3	But in the back of my mind, it isn't adding up.
1:45.4	Given how excited she was about becoming a mom, it didn't jive with us.
1:51.0	This broken necklace. This was a clue to you. Definitely. Yeah. I said that sounds like a sign of a struggle.
1:59.0	When I first saw the video, my jaw dropped.
2:03.6	He's walking into the apartment.
2:05.7	He has a mask on.
2:06.7	He's got a hoodie on over his head.
2:08.7	I'm thinking somebody murdered her.
2:10.9	You're thinking cover up?
2:12.0	Definitely.
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