Sandra Birchmore Was Ready to Talk. Then Silence.
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🗓️ 29 April 2026
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Summary
Sandra Birchmore believed Matthew Farwell was coming around. He brought ginger ale to her apartment. She texted a friend that things were getting better. She was pregnant, making plans, contacting lawyers, preparing for a future she would never see. Farwell was making different plans entirely.
According to federal prosecutors, Farwell told one person that if Sandra didn’t end the pregnancy, he would “take care of the problem himself.” He told another he needed to “put crazy back in the bag.” He told a third that “the problem was going to take care of itself.” Three different people. Three different conversations. All pointing toward a man who viewed a pregnant woman as a problem to be eliminated.
Sandra wasn’t just talking to friends. She had contacted lawyers. Prosecutors say she was developing a plan for child support and was prepared to disclose that Farwell had abused her since she was underage. For a married detective with a pregnant wife at home, Sandra had become an existential threat to everything he’d built.
Then came January 20, 2021. Eleven days before Sandra’s death. Her friend called the Stoughton Police Department to report Farwell’s relationship with Sandra. The department employee who took the call told Farwell. The institution that should have protected Sandra hand-delivered the warning to the man prosecutors say killed her.
On February 1, surveillance cameras captured Sandra walking in and out of her Canton apartment building. At 9:27 PM, Farwell entered. At 9:56 PM, he left. Sandra was never seen alive again.
This is Part 2 of a five-part series on the Sandra Birchmore case.
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| 1:01.6 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 1:04.9 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 1:08.2 | In late January 21, Sandra Birchmore texted a friend about Matthew Farwell. |
| 1:13.4 | He'd come to her apartment the night before he brought her ginger ale. |
| 1:17.3 | Her friend texted back, he's coming around. |
| 1:20.3 | Sandra believed the man who had been exploiting her since she was 15, possibly younger. It was finally softening, finally accepting the pregnancy, finally choosing |
| 1:33.8 | her, even a little. She imagined a version of a future where Farwell would be part of |
| 1:39.4 | their child's life or whatever twisted connection they had built over a decade might become something resembling |
| 1:45.8 | a family. Within day, Sandra would be dead. The ginger ale wasn't a peace offering. It was the last time |
| 1:52.4 | she would interpret cruelty as kindness. This is part two of our five-part series on the Sandra |
| 1:58.9 | Birchmore case. In part one, we told you how |
| 2:01.5 | Sandra entered the Stoughton Police Explorers Program at 12 years old and was groomed and exploited |
| 2:06.2 | by multiple officers over the span of a decade. Now we're inside the final month of her life. |
| 2:15.1 | The pregnancy, the escalation, and the warning that should have saved her. |
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