Haunting photos show pregnant Sandra Birchmores ultrasound before she was allegedly killed by cop who sexually abused her
An ultrasound of Sandra Birchmore’s unborn son was shown in court Wednesday at the trial of disgraced ex-cop Matthew Farwell, who is accused of killing her to keep her quite about their affair and her pregnancy.The jury at Farwell’s Boston federal trial was shown several images of Birchmore’s disheveled apartment in Canton, Mass.— where she was found dead on Feb.
4, 2021, three days after the 40-year-old married father-of-three allegedly strangled her and staged it to look like a suicide.One of the photos showed the 23-year-old expectant mom’s kitchen fridge, with a photo of her pregnancy ultrasound held up by a magnet.Another picture showed a box for a baby stroller placed upside-down on her apartment floor.Birchmore was at least eight months pregnant at the time of her death, according to federal prosecutors.Farwell killed Birchmore to ensure she couldn’t make good on threats to expose him to his wife about their seven-year sexual relationship, began with him abusing Birchmore when she was just 15, prosecutors alleged.Birchmore and Farwell also both believed she was carrying his baby — a fact which DNA testing refuted after the fact, according to prosecutors.Farwell’s own wife gave birth to his third child the day after the slaying, the feds claimed.Jurors heard testimony on Tuesday about how the Canton place was Birchmore’s first apartment which she moved into in December 2020, just weeks before the murder.The sparsely decorated home appeared dirty and cluttered, with water bottles, soda cans, cups, papers and other household items strewn about the floors, tables and countertops, the photos show.Birchmore’s bed wasn’t made, her kitchen sink was full of soda cans, and her carpet appeared to have stains all over it, the images showed.Cheryl Carlson, the former assistant principal at East Elementary School in Sharon where Birchmore worked as an instructional assistant, testified Tuesday that she was skeptical of the initial determination that ...