Sandra Birchmore Left Her Door Open for Farwell and Typed This to Tell Him

Sandra Birchmore's trial opened on October 9, 2026, with a prosecutor and a defense lawyer each holding up a different piece of her phone. Torey Cummings showed the jury the last text Sandra ever sent, to Matthew Farwell at 9:10 p.m. on February 1, 2021. She told them the lobby camera caught him coming through the door four minutes later. Kimberly Stevens showed them a search Sandra ran that same afternoon about a suicide ribbon, and texts about not sleeping and taking her medicine.

Cummings gave the jury Sandra's life in order. Her mother had a chronic illness and put her in the Stoughton Police Explorers so she'd have structure, and in the group photo Sandra is the littlest one at the end of the line. The detective who was supposed to mentor her instead started tutoring her at the library when she was 15, Cummings said. By 23 she was pregnant, had told 80 people, had booked a maternity shoot and paid for a nursing exam, and had made a poster for a Valentine's Day announcement.

Stevens gave them a different order. Sandra spent Thanksgiving and Christmas alone, once said her aunt had told her to kill herself, and had two dollars and ninety cents in the bank. She was scared of losing the pregnancy. And the strap carried more than one person's DNA, which Stevens told the jury means the government can't say whose it is.

The medical examiner who signed Sandra's death certificate as a suicide changed it to undetermined this spring. The jury that has to pick between the two Sandras went home for the long weekend with both. This is the full opening day, rebuilt from every reporter who sat in a room where cameras aren't allowed, and it ends on the only line from that phone that both sides agree she wrote.

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