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Sandra Birchmore Was Found Dead. Then Farwell's Phone Searched THIS.

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

October 19, 2026

Matthew Farwell first contacted Sandra Birchmore on Facebook when she was thirteen. By fifteen, prosecutors allege, they were in a relationship he called one he was "addicted" to. He met her through a law enforcement youth program. He was a twenty-seven-year-old Stoughton police officer.

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This is HiddenKillers With Tony Brueski.

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Here's one of the more disturbing lines out of the Sandra Birchmore trial against Matthew Farwell as we learn just what a scummy POS. Matthew Farwell really is. In my opinion, and I think anyone who's paying attention's opinion.

The line comes from Sandra Birchmore herself, which say text communication between the two of them.

Oh, I'm going to give you the line. I'm going to give you the context then too, because this is what makes it really gross and itchy. And if you're still married to this man, and I don't know that anybody is, I don't know the answer. I'm digging into that, because I think that's a fair question.

I don't know what the hell is wrong with you.

So, Sandra, in a text string with Farwell, quote, I'd be homeschooling an eight-year-old. That's Sandra Birchmore texting Matthew Farwell in September of 2020, after he said, they should have skipped the condom when they first started. You know, when she was 15, and when he would have been all too willing and ready to do that with her when she was even younger.

She'd be raising homeschooling an eight-year-old now, if they would have done that. She was doing the math for him because he's an idiot. If they hadn't used one on April 10th of 2013, the child would be eight years old by the time that conversation happened. Knee slap. She was 15 when it started. He met her when she was about 12, 13 He was a 27-year-old Stoughton Police officer. He didn't deny it.

On the sixth day of his federal murder trial, FBI Special Agent Heidi Kelsch and Prosecutor Elizabeth Riley read those messages aloud. Kelsch read Birchmore's words. Riley read Farwell's. Between them, they walked the jury through what both of them said in their own words. Across years of messages, the FBI recovered from Birchmore's devices. What the messages say, what the records confirm, and what Farwell searched on department-issued work phones eight days after Sandra's phone went silent. Oh, well, that's a story to tell. Birchmore called April 10th, 2013 the best day of her life. Farwell replied, Me too. She referenced that date about two dozen times in the final years of her life. He never contradicted or denied any of it. In February 2020, Farwell wrote, I figured you would have said no because you were young. Maybe she wouldn't like a predatory police officer going after her. You figured, Matt? He wrote that he was so nervous how I was going to hurt you. Oh, yeah, like a predator. Then he wrote, I got addicted, baby.

Told her he absolutely would have with her in 2012

Bradley stopped the reading and established the year. In 2012, Birchmore was 14, turning 15 He was saying he would have started earlier.

Did I mention, by the way, that Sandra Birchmore by all accounts and just visually, when you look at the images of her at that point in time, she looks like younger than her actual age. Yeah, that's how fucked up Matthew Farwell is.

The message is described in encounters at a library where Farwell claimed to be tutoring her. Birchmore wrote that she skipped school so much to see him. In March 2020, when COVID canceled classes, one of them wrote that not having school might help us out more.

Kelsch paused the testimony to tell the jury Birchmore was too young to consent. Farwell was a mandated reporter, a person required by law to report when a minor is being harmed. He was more than 10 years older and he was doing the harming. Both Kelsch testified were aggravating factors under Massachusetts law. The conduct, prosecutors allege, was aggravated statuatory are. Kelsch didn't rely on the messages. She reviewed Birchmore's medical records and school records. And the FBI subpoenaed both, you know, because all the local police department was passing her around like a piece of meat. Stoughton PD, by the way, in case you're wondering. Stoughton Massachusetts, in case you were avoiding any sort of places in the country like, where should I go move? Stoughton Massachusetts, probably not a place you want to go to. Probably not. Because their police force is filled with child predators, in my opinion. Oh, but the other ones didn't go after her until she was 18 Yeah, that's what's on the record. How much you want to bet that there's a couple badged motherfuckers out there right now shaking in their little pathetic boots.

Hoping and praying that more information doesn't come out that points to them having relations with the dead girl from the police explorers program before the age of 18 Like good old Matt. We already know there's several of them did after the age of 18 All too ready to do that, including Matt's brother, including an animal control officer, including somebody from the school.

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