Stoughton Police Department

He did it on his, on the town's time.

The FBI subpoenaed Stoughton Police Department timesheets and built a chart, 49 meetings between Farwell and Sandra mapped against his shift records, his cruiser, a Costco parking lot, and a Five Guys lot, a Newport hotel outside her house, her apartment, on duty or off.

The defense fought the chart.

Judge Casper overruled them.

He didn't respond to one.

She told her doctor she might be having twins because her mother was a twin and he was a twin.

January 19th, rent paid $1,957.57. January 20th, 2021, a woman named Julia Perlin, 1,500 miles away, called the Stoughton Police Department.

Perlin had a dispute with Sandra over nail polish.

Well, if you're not angry yet this morning, you're going to be.

If you have any sense of decency and morality and you hear about what was going on in the Stoughton Police Department, holy shit.

The murder trial for Matthew Farwell is underway for that of his alleged victim, Sandra Birchmore.

The federal case against Matthew Farwell exists because the FBI reopened an investigation that local and state agencies had already...

It was it was just kind of a way of life.

it seemed.

What's been your, and we'll get into all of the details, but just you as a human being, what's been your reaction as now that this thing has made it to trial and we're hearing the nitty gritty details of the things that happened to Sandra Birchmore and the lack of care that seemed to exist within that Stoughton Police Department?

Yeah, it's a tragic case.

This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruschi and Robin Dreeke.

Let's go into the Sandra Birchmore case, the trial of Matthew Farwell, and almost by extension, a lot of other officers who are not charged with anything but the behavior, the utterly deplorable, despicable, disgusting behavior of so many of these officers in the Stoughton Police Department, I think is blowing a lot of people's minds who maybe were not paying super close attention to this case at the beginning, but it just continues to get deeper and darker by the day, including obviously what we're learning about Matthew Farwell.

Farwell said Sandra Birchmore, or rather Farwell texted Sandra that he figured she would have said no because he was...

Farwell texted Sandra that he figured she would have said no because...

Well, if you're not angry yet this morning, you're going to be.

If you have any sense of decency and morality and you hear about what was going on in the Stoughton Police Department, holy shit.

The murder trial for Matthew Farwell is underway for that of his alleged victim, Sandra Birchmore.

The federal case against Matthew Farwell exists because the FBI reopened an investigation that local and state agencies had already Shut the door on him.

It's an important case because there is it really points to the level of corruption that was existing in this department, in my opinion, leading up to all this, through all of this and how it not only went unchecked, it went ignored.

It was it was just kind of a way of life.

it seemed what what's been your and we'll get into all the details but just you as a human being what's been your reaction as now that this thing has made it to trial and we're hearing the nitty-gritty details of of the things that happened to sandra birchmore and and the lack of care that seemed to exist within that stoughton police department

Yeah, it's a tragic case.

So they're allowed to ask law enforcement, "Did you speak to this witness on what day?" And I think that's why it's specifying, "Did you tell this officer these things?" Spoke to multiple law enforcement officers to tell them that Farwell was involved so that they wouldn't miss anything, and they still are, uh, just headlong into this case being a suicide.

They called the chief of police from Stoughton PD, who commented early in her testimony that she remembered Sandra Burchmore from Explorers and commented that Burchmore was unusually young-looking and small compared with other participants.

And just circling back to the beginning of the FBI testimony and the FBI digital forensic examiners, we talked about the timeline just a little bit of when Sandra Burchmore's devices went silent, but also they examined an iPhone XR that was Farwell's, it was his work phone, and they found deleted Google searches of note from February 9th, 2026.

One being, "Can delete," and that is how it was spelled because texting, "Can delete iMessage be recovered by Cellebrite?" And the other one being, "Can you revoke consent in Massachusetts?" These searches are after he had that informal meeting, after he gave them his phone, after he said, "You can look for conversations between me and Sandra Burchmore on the phone," that he had already deleted.

Well, if you're not angry yet this morning, you're going to be.

If you have any sense of decency and morality and you hear about what was going on in the Stoughton Police Department, holy shit.

The murder trial for Matthew Farwell is underway for that of his alleged victim, Sandra Birchmore.

The federal case against Matthew Farwell exists because the FBI reopened an investigation that local and state agencies had already...

It was it was just kind of a way of life.

it seemed.

What's been your, and we'll get into all of the details, but just you as a human being, what's been your reaction as now that this thing has made it to trial and we're hearing the nitty gritty details of the things that happened to Sandra Birchmore and the lack of care that seemed to exist within that Stoughton Police Department?

Yeah, it's a tragic case.

Well, if you're not angry yet this morning, you're going to be.

If you have any sense of decency and morality and you hear about what was going on in the Stoughton Police Department, holy shit.

The murder trial for Matthew Farwell is underway for that of his alleged victim, Sandra Birchmore.

The federal case against Matthew Farwell exists because the FBI reopened an investigation that local and state agencies had already Shut the door on him.

It was just kind of a way of life.

it seemed.

What's been your, and we'll get into all of the details, but just you as a human being, what's been your reaction as now that this thing has made it to trial and we're hearing the nitty gritty details of the things that happened to Sandra Birchmore and the lack of care that seemed to exist within that Stoughton Police Department?

Yeah, it's a tragic case.

And almost by extension, a lot.

of other officers who are not charged with anything but the behavior, the utterly deplorable, despicable, disgusting behavior of so many of these officers in the Stoughton Police Department, I think is blowing a lot of people's minds.

Maybe we're not paying super close attention to this case at the beginning, but it just continues to get deeper and darker by the day.

including obviously what we're learning about Matthew Farwell.