Sandra Birchmore Trusted This Department — Look at What They Did

Tony Brueski (0:10)

The trial about Sandra Birchmore's death, murder, is going to be coming up very soon if everything stays on track. So welcome, we're here to help educate you on all of this as it gets closer. And this is a case that just enrages the hell out of you. The deeper you dive, the darker it gets, the more corrupt the police department gets. And we did that dive. And we're going to get a little bit more beneath the surface here and just kind of take a look at this case in the perspective of, OK, you want us to believe that she did this to herself, Stoughton Police Department, Matthew Farwell?

Why should we believe you? What, what reps do you have in, in demonstrating behavior that builds trust in those that look to you for authority and guidance and to protect and serve? What, what exactly do you bring to the table in that vein? It turns out not much. And here's why. They want you to believe Sandra Birchmore killed herself, former Stoughton, Massachusetts, police detective will walk into a Boston federal courtroom in October. We'll be covering it here, press subscribe.

And ask the jury to accept that a pregnant 23-year-old tied a duffel bag strap to a closet doorknob and ended her own life. Closet doorknob, yes, low hanging. Somehow, did that to oneself without actually hanging anywhere, just, you know, a doorknob. Federal prosecutors say, and by the way, the man who's accused of it, his DNA is on the strap. Nothing to see here. Federal prosecutors say he strangled her with that strap and staged the attempt in the apartment. One side is catastrophically wrong, and before the jury decides which, there's something the audience deserves to know about the institution that wrote the first version of the story. The first version that was pitched out there and then walked away from, and nobody looked any further. We're good over here. Everything's great. And then the FBI comes and goes, What are you guys doing over here in Stoughton? Oh God, we've looked at you in the past. We've had to investigate you in the past for shady ass shit. Looks like we're back doing that again. Some things never change.

Sandra Birchmore was 12 or 13 when she joined the Stoughton Police Explorers program around 2010 You know that the story is going to start well when we're starting the story of talking her being about being a young teenager among officers. Her father was gone, her mother and grandmother, the people raising her died while she was a teenager. She had nobody. And guess what? She wanted to be a cop. This could have been wonderful. This could have been a great story of responsible adults who got together and supported a young woman, helped her into her career path, helped her grow as a young lady and find a career that was fulfilling and that she was good at.

And be there as support systems through the rest of her life, through the milestones of her life. Instead, they looked at her as a piece of meat and passed her around and violated her repeatedly from person to person. Yeah, that allegedly started when she was underage too. But many of the officers who passed her around, because there's a lot of them, well, it all happened when she was 18 and it's her fault. It was her choice. She's manipulative.

Oh, is she?

SPEAKER_1 (4:06)

Is she?

Tony Brueski (4:06)

It's that's not that's not you. You're not darvoing the shit out of this because you don't want to be responsible for taking advantage of a child.

SPEAKER_1 (4:15)

Yeah.

Tony Brueski (4:17)

Many of the officers are free, by the way. So if you happen to see him at the Piggly Wiggly, say hi. Hey.

The explorers program was supposed to give her.

That. Things she was missing. Mentorship, ride along, structure from adults with badges. Stoughton could produce only a single one year agreement with the national program. No records that the adults who ran it completed youth protection training. The adults who ran it were Deputy Chief Robert Devine and the Farwell twins. It sounds like a Stephen King book already. Matthew and William, federal prosecutors allege Matthew Farwell began a physical relationship with Sandra when she was 15 and he was 27 He even mentioned to her in a text, wish I started doing that sooner.

He was a Stoughton Patrolman's Union President. The man whose job was to represent officers in discipline was allegedly involved with a child in the department's own youth program. William Farwell, Matthew's twin, also a Stowe and Officer, exchanged inappropriate messages and images with Sandra while on duty. He encouraged her to secretly record encounters with other people and send him the footage. Ah, like a good officer does.