Ex-Massachusetts police officer convicted of murdering pregnant woman in staged suicide
A former Massachusetts police detective has been found guilty of murdering a young pregnant woman prosecutors say he had been grooming since she was a teenager.Matthew Farwell, a former Stoughton Police Department detective, was convicted of killing Sandra Birchmore inside her Canton apartment in February 2021.Investigators say he staged the scene to make her death appear to be a suicide.The U.S.
Attorney for Massachusetts confirmed Farwell was found guilty on Tuesday of murdering Birchmore and causing the death of her unborn child.Jurors began deliberating Friday after hearing more than three weeks of testimony in the federal murder trial.On Monday the jurors sent a note to the judge saying that they were deadlocked, but the judge sent them home for the day and instructed them to return Tuesday to continue deliberating.Sandra Birchmore was strangled to death on Feb.
1, 2021, in a scene prosecutors now say was staged to look like a suicide.Former Stoughton police officer Matthew Farwell is on trial in connection with her murder.
(Sandra Birchmore/Facebook, Stoughton PD, Getty)FORMER MASSACHUSETTS POLICE OFFICER FACES MURDER TRIAL OVER PREGNANT WOMAN'S STAGED SUICIDEFarwell had been charged with killing a witness or victim and causing the death of an unborn child.SEND US A TIPProsecutors said Farwell killed Birchmore after she became pregnant and threatened to expose their years-long relationship, which they say started when he began grooming her when she was just 15 years old and he was 27.FORMER MASSACHUSETTS POLICE OFFICER FACES MURDER TRIAL OVER PREGNANT WOMAN'S STAGED SUICIDESandra Birchmore pictured in a selfie she posted to Facebook in January 2021, about three weeks before she was killed in a scene prosecutors allege was staged to look like a suicide.Former Stoughton Police Officer Matthew Farwell has been accused of killing her and her unborn child.
(Sandra Birchmore/Facebook)FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON XBirchmore was found dead with a strap around...