The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore
Oct 16, 2026 · 26 min · 9 segments
Sandra Birchmore’s best friend Lesley Davis told a federal jury she had the last conversation with Sandra anyone can account for — twenty-five minutes on the phone, the evening of February 1, 2021…
When, when you have good ones that do good things and are protecting and serving and doing the good work, that's wonderful.
Why? Well, because what came out in court very much reveals that they're pretty much, or had been at the time of these things going on, a pedo-protecting and proliferating piece of shit organization.
A sad excuse for a police department that festered and basically created an ecosystem, enabled an ecosystem like this to exist and actively, actively protected the monsters within it.
It is what happens when we're complicit and we say, "Oh, they don't make much money.
Um, is it a hard job? Is it hellish? Do you have to experience, do they experience things on a daily basis that most of us, you know, don't experience ever or, or hope to not ever in our lives? Yes.
So when I hear the excuse, because this is what I hear when I'm talking about this case.
When you, when we're talking about, oh, oh, oh, someone called and complained and, and someone said...
Someone warned the department about Farwell and said he was doing inappropriate things with Birchmore since she was a child.
And they just look the other way, don't take any notes, pretend they don't hear it, ignored the whole damn thing.
When, when you have good ones that do good things and are protecting and serving and doing the good work, that's wonderful.
Why? Well, because what came out in court very much reveals that they're pretty much, or had been at the time of these things going on, a pedo-protecting and proliferating piece of shit organization.
A sad excuse for a police department that festered and basically created an ecosystem, enabled an ecosystem like this to exist and actively, actively protected the monsters within it.
It is what happens when we're complicit and we say, "Oh, they don't make much money.
Um, is it a hard job? Is it hellish? Do you have to experience, do they experience things on a daily basis that most of us, you know, don't experience ever or, or hope to not ever in our lives? Yes.
So when I hear the excuse, because this is what I hear when I'm talking about this case.
When you, when we're talking about, oh, oh, oh, someone called and complained and, and someone said...
Someone warned the department about Farwell and said he was doing inappropriate things with Birchmore since she was a child.
And they just look the other way, don't take any notes, pretend they don't hear it, ignored the whole damn thing.
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