Sandra Birchmore's Own Department Put THIS in Writing About Farwell

Nine years after it happened, the Stoughton Police Department wrote it down: an inappropriate relationship between one of its officers, Matthew Farwell, and a girl in its youth program, beginning in the spring of 2013 when she was 15. That finding is the floor of Part 1 of the Sandra Birchmore story. It follows a 12-year-old who idolized cops into a program the department ran, and out the other side into a Canton apartment where a Stoughton officer held a copy of her key.

Robert Devine built the Stoughton Explorers into a junior police academy and rose to deputy chief while running it. The department demoted him once for lying and kept him on the force. He brought back two former Explorers, the Farwell twins, as instructors; the department's own report called them his understudies. A prior chief had rejected William Farwell's application in 2011, citing behavior he called incompatible with police work. Stoughton hired him in 2017.

Matthew Farwell was seven months on the job when, according to the FBI, he sent Sandra a Facebook friend request and met her at the public library under the guise of tutoring. She later typed the date it became physical into a text: April 10, 2013. By 2019, prosecutors say, he was tracking her location and ordering her to clear out their texts.

When she told him she was pregnant in December 2020, prosecutors say his first reply was that he had nothing to say. Within weeks, friends told the FBI, he'd put her in a headlock and said he wished she would die. Four days after a friend reported him to his own department, prosecutors say, he asked Sandra for a spare key. He's charged with killing her and has pleaded not guilty. Part 2 takes on what the state did next.

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