Massachusetts Ex-Cop Charged With Strangling Pregnant Woman and Staging Her Death as a Suicide
On Tuesday, a former Massachusetts police officer was charged with murdering a pregnant woman and staging her death to look like a suicide to prevent her from revealing that he had groomed her starting when she was just 15.
Matthew Farwell, now 38, allegedly strangled 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore in 2021. According to prosecutors, Farwell killed Birchmore weeks after she told him she was pregnant with his child. Farwell was allegedly worried that Birchmore would tell other Stoughton, Massachusetts, police officers about their relationship.
“Birchmore was a vulnerable person,” Stoughton Police Chief Donna McNamara said in 2022, after an investigation revealed Farwell’s relationship with Birchmore. “One constant in her life since childhood: her unwavering admiration of police officers….The admiration led her to form relationships with men who were willing to take advantage of her.”
According to court documents, Birchmore applied to the Stoughton Police Explorers Academy, a police department program aimed at youth interested in working in law enforcement, when she was 12. There, she met Farwell, who allegedly groomed her and eventually had sex with her when she was 15 and he was 27. Their relationship continued for years, with the pair eventually agreeing in 2020 that Farwell would help Birchmore become pregnant, in exchange for her keeping their relationship a secret.
According to a Wednesday press conference, after Birchmore informed Farwell she had conceived his
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