Robert Devine, rose to 2nd in command at the Stoughton Police Dept-his fall came quickly

Boston Confidential Beantown's True Crime Podcast

Barry J. Maguire

Drama, Whitey, Boston, Boston True Crime, True Crime, South Boston, Charlestown, Fiction, Roxbury, Dorchester

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Send us a text Robert Devine rose through the ranks at the Stoughton Police Department, he re-invigorated the Police Explorers program, the program, soon became a breeding ground for sexual abuse, that ensnared Sandra Birchmore. The program became an actual cornucopia of abuse. Documents suggest that Devine, Off. Matt Farwell, and his twin brother Off. William Farwell, all had sex with Sandra Birchmore at varying times and places, despite loving families at home. Matt Farwell has been charged...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Boston Confidential, Beantown's True Crime podcast.
0:11.7	Boston is a great city, but there's more to it than the Freedom Trail in Fenway Park.
0:16.8	There's a startling underbelly to the city, and Boston Confidential will take you on a guided tour of the hub of the universe, Boston, Massachusetts.
0:26.4	Hey, everybody, welcome back to Boston Confidential. My name's Barry McGuire, and I'm your host. I'm a 20-year private investigator on the streets of Boston, and I help run a company called Impact Due Diligence Investigations.
0:40.0	If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact me at Impact.
0:45.9	If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.
0:50.8	All right, guys, let's get to it.
0:53.6	Hey guys, welcome back to Boston Confidential.
0:56.7	Just some housekeeping stuff as we usually do at the outset of each episode.
1:01.5	We had a massive response to last week's episode, kind of an update on the Karen Reed situation.
1:09.1	Just the continuing strangeness, the Norfolk County District Attorney's
1:14.0	Office, despite having what, 10 or 12 murder prosecutors in the office, have at taxpayer expense
1:22.7	outsourced the prosecution of Karen Reed because of incompetence, I guess.
1:30.4	There's really no explanation provided as to why they did this.
1:35.9	We know Adam Lally, you know, what happened with him and how bad that was.
1:41.3	But, man, he takes it in the teeth in this decision. He's been a loyal soldier, and they gave him
1:47.9	a crappy case with no way out. And yeah, he's a horrible prosecutor. But why do the taxpayers
1:56.5	have to foot the bill for a ringer, basically Hank Brennan, Whitey Bulger's mob attorney.
2:04.6	And he's a good defense attorney.
2:06.8	And before that, he was a prosecutor.
2:09.9	So I guess there's that.
2:11.6	There's really no explanation.
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