Groomed By Cops From Age 10! Cop Charged in Staged Suicide: Murder of Sandra Birchmore
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Sandra Birchmore was a 23-year-old teacher's aide and instructional assistant who was found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts, home in February 2021. Sandra was known to many officers of the Stoughton Police department due to her involvement with an Explorer program as a teen. Her death, initially ruled a suicide, became the focus of a federal homicide investigation, leading to the 2024 arrest of former Stoughton police officer Matthew Farwell, who was charged with her murder. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack update the case with additional forensic evidence that is just now coming to light.
Transcribe Highlights
00:06.64 Introduction - Basic Training
02:29.94 Murder of Sandra Birchmore
05:05.01 Explorer Post is extension of scouting
10:08.64 Sandra was a Teachers-Aide
15:09.02 Suicide investigations
20:16.88 Discovery of body
25:24.73 Sandra excited - 10 weeks pregnant
30:02.03 Death ruling changed after 3 plus years
35:25.69 Investigation revealed others involved
40:05.90 FBI investigation
41:53.69 Conclusion
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.7 | Quality Backs with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:09.9 | When I was 18 years old, I went to basic training at Fort Leonardwood, Missouri, in the Army. |
| 0:21.4 | And one of the things that they are just sticklers about is security of your property. |
| 0:32.9 | And the first day I was there, literally, came from the reception station, went to our company area. |
| 0:40.6 | I was in third platoon, believe it or not, Delta 5.3, by the way, I still even remember, remember that. |
| 0:48.5 | They went around and had us stow our duffelbacks where we had been issued everything. |
| 0:55.0 | And to my great chagrin, as I found out later, |
| 0:59.0 | I had failed to secure my wall locker. |
| 1:03.0 | And I still had yet to unpack my duffel back. |
| 1:07.0 | And as I stood at parade rest on that hot concrete slab out back of the company area, |
| 1:16.2 | a Cochran jump boot kicked out the screen covering the window. |
| 1:22.7 | And a drill sergeant unceremoniously took my duffel bag and threw it out of the third-story window. |
| 1:32.6 | The problem was, was that I had a small box of detergent in the top, and when it hit the ground, |
| 1:38.1 | there was a large white, poof cloud that went everywhere. Guess what I had to do? I had to wear that duffel bag |
| 1:46.7 | containing all of my worldly belongings on my back for four straight days. That includes |
| 1:54.6 | doing PT. I think I lost 25 pounds in the first week I was there and my back really, really hurt. But you |
| 2:04.3 | guess what I never did again? I never left my wall locker unsecured. Well, the reason I'm |
| 2:11.4 | telling you that is that the case that we are going to discuss is in fact a case that we've |
| 2:17.3 | discussed previously, but now we have more information. |
| 2:20.3 | And it does involve a duffelback. |
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