The federal government alleges a former Stoughton police detective murdered Sandra Birchmore, but seven months after his indictment, her death certificate still says that she killed herself.

Farwell, a former Stoughton police officer, was arrested last year following an FBI investigation into the alleged suicide of ...

STOUGHTON — A high-profile pathologist hired by Sandra Birchmore's family said her death is a homicide, rejecting a state medical examiner's conclusion that she died by suicide. Dr. Michael ...

The findings were announced during a press conference held on Friday by Stoughton Police Chief Donna McNamara. Sandra Birchmore, according to the report, died by suicide in February 2021.

and pregnant 23-year-old resident Sandra Birchmore. Birchmore's 2021 death was originally ruled a suicide. In 2024, former Stoughton police detective Matthew Farwell was charged with killing ...

Birchmore was found dead in ... According to court documents, Farwell was one of three Stoughton officers who had an inappropriate relationship with Sandra when she was a young teen in the ...