The Murder of Sandra Birchmore. Officer Farwell Arrested and How This Affects The Karen Read Trial.

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🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Use code EmilyBakerClass at https://www.GreenChef.com/EmilyBakerClass to get 50% off, plus 50 free ClassPass credits! Head to https://factormeals.com/edb50 and use edb50 to get 50% off your first box plus 20% off your next box! Go to https://shopify.com/lawnerd now to grow your business – no matter what stage you’re in. On February 4th 2021, a pregnant Sandra Birchmore was found deceased in her Canton, Massachusetts apartment. The case was initially ruled a suicide however an internal affairs investigation was opened and led to the resignation of Matthew Farwell, his twin William Farwell and Deputy Chief Richard Devine, all prior to them being interviewed as part of the ongoing investigation. On June 18th, 2024 a pathologist hired by Birchmore’s family determined that Sandra Birchmore died by homicide, not suicide. The pathologist was hired in relation to the family's wrongful death action against the department and the officers who had resigned. On August 27th, 2024, former police officer, Matthew Farwell, was arrested for the murder of Sandra Birchmore and charged with killing a witness or victim. Farwell has a detention hearing set for September 12th, 2024 at 2pm ET and a Status Conference Hearing on October 17th, 2024. RESOURCES If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline or chat live at https://988lifeline.org. If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline by calling 1-800-799-SAFE (7233), visiting https://.thehotline.org or texting LOVEIS to 22522. USAG Statement on Indictment and Arrest (includes documents) - https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/former-massachusetts-police-officer-arrested-connection-murder-young-woman USAG Press Statement - https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/former-massachusetts-police-officer-arrested-connection-murder-young-woman This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/Podscribe - https://podscribe.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:16.0	Welcome back to the Emily Show. Today we're talking about a difficult and disturbing case out of Massachusetts and the reason I'm covering it today is one I know so many of you reached out and asked about this and you really are looking for the legal side of this case without the sensationalism and wanting to know how does this case impact potentially the Karen Reed case because these are both cases out of Canton, Massachusetts,
0:25.0	some dealing with the same officers, dealing with the same district attorney's office,
0:29.0	and dealing with a federal investigation into a local investigation and what might come from that.
0:36.0	So today I am going to break this case down.
0:39.0	I am not going to get into all of the detail that is available because we can go through an
0:44.5	overview of this investigation, the Fed's involvement, what it means potentially
0:49.9	for a retrial in the Karen Reed case without getting into the amount of detail that is here.
0:55.6	But I am going to link the US Attorney's Office out of Massachusetts's press statement
1:01.0	down below this episode, and that links all of the documents that media outlets have been relying on to talk about more of the details in this case in case you want to access those and go through them for yourself.
1:13.1	So that is a choice I am leaving to you,
1:15.0	but I will link that resource down below.
1:17.4	I also want to take a moment to acknowledge our sponsors.
1:20.6	This episode and all the podcast episodes are not monetized across
1:24.3	platforms. Our sponsors allow us to cover topics that are important, but not
1:30.1	always platform friendly in a way that works for us as
1:34.7	Launards and I appreciate that.
1:36.5	So yes, it will have sponsors that allows us to cover
1:39.8	sensitive and important cases like the case of Sandra Birchmore.
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