Matthew Farwell Faces a Death Certificate That Says WHAT?!

Tony Brueski (0:00)

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Tony Brueski (0:19)

Because Massachusetts seems to be a hotspot these days for criminal activity in large cases, let's go there, let's revisit. We're gonna go to the Sandra Birchmore case, one that's not too far away from Canton, not too far away from Karen Reed country. In fact, actually involves some of the same officers from that case, believe it or not. Matthew Farwell's defense team is gonna be walking into a federal courtroom on October 5th, unless something changes between now and then, and tell a jury that Sandra Birchmore was unstable. That's what's coming. Mark my words. We're gonna be going through what they're going to pitch, very likely, in that courtroom, and how. How to understand that information, how to process that information, because it's going to be pitched and molded and mental gymnasticed in such a way over here that when it reaches the courtroom, women go, huh, that's an interesting point. But when you understand how things were molded and how it got into a mental gymnastic state in the world of Sandra Birchmore, you go, oh, well, you fuck faces did that to her. That's why she's the way she is. That's why she operates the way she operates. Because you conceded self-serving mutants on the Canton police force that were preying on her since she was a child.

You really kind of gave her a solid example when she was looking to authority figures about how to be manipulative, how to control people, how to lie, how to do all those sorts of things.

While you were violating her repeatedly and passing her around like a piece of meat, you know, she's just a broken child.

It's a disgusting case and we're here to expose every inch of it and the motherfuckers who are behind it. So those of you who are incarcerated with people like Farwell, you know all about him. So when he comes your way, you can sharpen your broomsticks and just know there is cash coming to your canteen very soon. I'm not insinuating anything. I'm not asking for anything. I'm just saying that seems to be how the universe works. People take out horrible human beings in prison. Cash magically appears in people's canteens from thousands of people across the country following the case going, huh, you eliminated a scum bucket from the planet. You get extra snickers. Again, not encouraging that, not saying anyone should do that. Just saying it seems that's how the universe works a lot. So if you're watching this on your iPad from prison, let's learn about Matthew Farwell and his buddies.

And the horrific manipulation, coercion, abuse and murder that was brought upon Sandra Birchmore by people wearing the badge.

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So, assuming this trial goes forward, whenever it does, right now it's set for October 5th, they're going to go into that courtroom, and they're going to tell you, and they're going to tell the jury, that Sandra Birchmore was unstable, that she was manipulative, that she had a history of mental illness stretching back from age 9, a prior attempt on her own life, a journal entry, where she was contemplating ending it. They will present a medication prescribed 12 days before her death that carries an S warning. They will present her search history, her psychiatric record, and her own handwritten words as proof that she did this to herself.

And look, some of that is going to be true. Sandra Birchmore was unstable. She did manipulate. She did lie. I'm not here to pretend any of that is not true. It is. But the defense is counting on the jury never asking the next question, which is how a girl gets this way. Sandra Birchmore walked into Stoughton Police Explorers at 12 years old, looking for a father figure. What she found were men in uniform who used her for the next decade. Every behavior the defense plans to put in front of that jury traces straight back to what those men did to her. The man at the defense table was the first one through the door. The defense will call Sandra manipulative. Here's her evidence. In October 2020, she drafted a message to Farwell's wife threatening to expose their relationship. And instead of sending it, prosecutors say she turned it into a deal. Farwell would try to conceive a child with her. In return, she'd keep the secret. The defense will frame that as a woman running a scheme. But Sandra was 23 when she made that play, and she'd been under Farwell's control since she was 15 Some accounts say even younger. Prosecutors allege she tracked her phone location, told her to delete text, swore her to secrecy, and used violence against her as punishment for nearly a decade. She didn't learn to bargain with secrets in a vacuum. She learned it from the man who built the entire relationship on one condition, silence. The defense will call Sandra unstable. Their evidence, psychiatric treatment beginning at age 9, the loss of her mother and grandmother while she was still a teenager, journal entries where she contemplated ending it. They won the right to present all of it. What the defense won't volunteer is what was happening to Sandra during those same years while she was in school mourning her mother, trying to hold her life together. Matthew Farwell, a 27-year-old police officer, was allegedly meeting her in his patrol car. Prosecutors say he crossed the line with her when she was 15 Text messages recovered by the FBI show of acknowledging he was her first and writing that he wished it had happened sooner.