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Matthew Farwell’s Interview Went Unrecorded WHY?!
Matthew Farwell spoke to the state investigators examining Sandra Birchmore's death, but their pivotal school-parking-lot interview produced no recording and no notes. Trooper Matthew Dunne told jurors that his supervisor, Sgt. John Fanning, approved the approach to keep the conversation informal. The idea was to avoid pushing Farwell to stop talking. Was the price of that strategy too high?Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her Canton apartment in February 2021. Federal prosecutors allege that Farwell, a former Stoughton police detective, killed her and staged her death as suicide. Farwell has pleaded not guilty and maintains that Birchmore...
Published: Oct 25, 2026Duration: 33m 24s
Alex Murdaugh’s DNA Hearing Uncovered WHAT Else?!
Unknown male DNA has become a major point of contention ahead of Alex Murdaugh's retrial. Defense lawyers told Judge Debra McCaslin that genetic material recovered beneath both of Maggie Murdaugh's hands and from her phone includes an unidentified male contribution. They argued that records available before the original trial did not communicate the full significance of the underlying numbers. The prosecution challenged the need to expend remaining samples on additional testing.The judge gave the defense permission to perform independent Y-STR analysis, which may help isolate male DNA from samples dominated by female DNA. The testing has...
Published: Oct 25, 2026Duration: 31m 23s
Sandra Birchmore’s Warning Was Passed to WHO?!
Sandra Birchmore’s friend called the Stoughton Police Department to report a relationship involving officer Matthew Farwell. The federal indictment alleges someone working at the department told Farwell about the call. The government has not identified that employee in the indictment, leaving an important gap in the story of how the warning was handled.Prosecutors allege Matthew later killed Sandra and made the scene look like a suicide. He has pleaded not guilty and his defense says Sandra took her own life. Bob Motta examines how investigators should preserve complaints, identify who handled them, and separate an in...
Published: Oct 25, 2026Duration: 31m 29s
Birchmore Investigators Returned Farwell’s Phone After WHAT?!
A Massachusetts State Police examiner searched Matthew Farwell’s phone for messages with Sandra Birchmore, came up empty, and returned the device. That was Nicholas Guarino’s account to the federal jury. Investigators had already obtained Sandra’s laptop using a password containing Farwell’s name, found through her DoorDash account.Guarino said his phone examination was limited to the communications he had been directed to locate. The FBI later recovered roughly 24,000 communications between Farwell and Birchmore from her devices. Prosecutors say Farwell had deleted messages after investigators first questioned him. The state does not have the phone it...
Published: Oct 25, 2026Duration: 22m 31s
The Devil Made Him Do It? The Arne Johnson Story, Part 3 — She Told Him He'd Be RICH
Forty years of movies, books, and mythology say the devil made Arne Johnson do it. Arne Johnson has never said that. Not once. What he told police the night Alan Bono died: "I need help because I've got a drinking problem." His attorney: "The priests said that. The Warrens said that." Judge Callahan barred the possession defense before a single juror sat down. The jury convicted Johnson of manslaughter, not murder. The Glatzel family received $4,500 from the deals. The Warrens received more than $81,000. Lorraine told 11-year-old David he'd be a rich little boy. Carl Jr. discovered their mother had...
Published: Oct 25, 2026Duration: 13m 24s
Matthew Farwell Wore WHAT Before His Wife Gave Birth?!
Matthew Farwell appears on surveillance video entering Sandra Birchmore's apartment building in a face mask. Prosecutors say he left roughly half an hour later, and his wife gave birth hours afterward. The government has made that sequence part of its case alleging he killed Birchmore and staged the scene. Farwell has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyers maintain that Birchmore died by suicide.The mask drew particular attention when a Stoughton police colleague testified that Farwell disliked wearing them. Whether that detail indicates concealment is a prosecution inference, not an established finding. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott discusses what...
Published: Oct 25, 2026Duration: 36m 16s
Farwell’s Defense Challenged WHAT in Sandra’s Death?!
Sandra Birchmore’s death was initially ruled self-inflicted, but federal prosecutors allege former Stoughton officer Matthew Farwell killed her and made the scene appear otherwise. His attorney says Sandra died in an impulsive act of despair. The argument reaches beyond a medical conclusion into DNA evidence and the history of Sandra’s relationship with Farwell.Defense attorney Kimberly Stevens told jurors Sandra began psychiatric medication at age six, had attempted to end her life as a teenager, and faced financial pressure. Stevens said Sandra had $2.90 in her account at the end of January 2021. The defense emphasizes that inve...
Published: Oct 24, 2026Duration: 29m 3s
Sandra Birchmore’s Case Exposed WHAT on Farwell’s Phone?!
The federal trial of former Stoughton officer Matthew Farwell has put two searches from February 9, 2021, before a jury. An iPhone linked to him asked whether consent can be revoked under Massachusetts law and whether deleted messages can be retrieved using Cellebrite. Sandra Birchmore had died eight days earlier.Prosecutors allege Farwell killed Sandra to keep her from revealing their relationship, then staged the scene. Farwell has denied the federal murder charge. His lawyers contend she died by suicide. These competing accounts are central to the trial; the significance of the digital evidence remains for jurors to decide.<...
Published: Oct 24, 2026Duration: 34m 19s
Why Gypsy Rose's Old Words About Ken Matter Now
Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s old prison conversations about Ken Urker are receiving new scrutiny after Ken was found dead in Louisiana, and they arrive as another group is trying to rewrite the history of Dee Dee Blanchard.Recordings reported as prison calls from 2020 and 2021 capture Gypsy telling Ryan Anderson that she had told Ken she hoped he would overdose. Ken died on October 1, 2026, his thirty-fourth birthday. A Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office incident report says family and friends entered the Raceland home through a bedroom window before deputies arrived. Investigators reported syringes, a spoon beside a brown powd...
Published: Oct 24, 2026Duration: 38m 50s
Matthew Farwell’s DNA Comparison Was Missing From WHAT?!
In the Sandra Birchmore case, the question is what investigators did with the evidence they collected and what they never compared. A state lab identified male DNA on a strap recovered from her apartment in 2021. A federal court filing says investigators did not get Matthew Farwell’s reference DNA then. Testimony also described two unrecorded Farwell interviews, including one in a school parking lot. In federal court, FBI Special Agent Heidi Kelsch read messages between Farwell and Sandra that prosecutors say document their contact beginning when she was a teenager. Prosecutors accuse Farwell of killing Sandra to prevent exposure of...
Published: Oct 24, 2026Duration: 35m 36s
The Devil Made Him Do It? The Arne Johnson Story, Part 2 — "You Know How He GETS"
Ambulance driver Leo Hengstler took the stand and testified to something no book, no movie, and no dramatization has ever included. He heard Debbie tell her father at the scene while Alan Bono lay dying: "You know how he gets when he's been drinking." Not possession. Drinking. Debbie had watched five blackout episodes after Arne challenged the demon — she said each one looked exactly like David's. But the Washington Post described a different man — quick to anger, possessive, carrying a 5-inch folding knife since childhood. Carl Jr. raised another detail the supernatural accounts never addressed: rumors that Debbie had been...
Published: Oct 24, 2026Duration: 13m 4s
Alex Murdaugh and Sandra Birchmore: Which Officers Knew Before Anyone Else?
Alex Murdaugh is heading to an April 2027 retrial, and Matthew Farwell is on trial in Boston for Sandra Birchmore's death. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me to break down both.Murdaugh's defense can now test unidentified DNA from Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails and phone, and it wants answers about a police officer friend who, the defense says, prosecutors suggested reached the scene early. Prosecutors won't say whether a grand jury exists.In the Birchmore case, prosecutors say Farwell learned of a friend's January 20, 2021 call to Stoughton police before Sandra died. His DNA, they say, was on...
Published: Oct 24, 2026Duration: 1h 0m 40s
JP Miller — Former Pastor Reveals What Happens When a Minister Tells the Truth
One of Timmy Gibson's pastor friends decided to be honest on his annual licensing form and admitted to marijuana use. He was stripped of his credentials and removed from ministry. Gibson says every other pastor he knew lied on the same form. On Homicide Happy Hour, Gibson described the Assemblies of God licensing process as a pure honor system with no verification. The system protects itself by punishing honesty. Gibson says that architecture is how JP Miller allegedly operated without accountability for years. Miller structured his church so nobody could override him. Miller faces one count of cyberstalking and...
Published: Oct 24, 2026Duration: 26m 16s
The Devil Made Him Do It? The Arne Johnson Story, Part 1 — What the Warrens Did to Him
David Glatzel told his family he saw Arne Johnson killing someone. He was 11 years old. That vision came months before February 16, 1981 — before Johnson stabbed Alan Bono on a kennel lawn in Brookfield, Connecticut, the town's first homicide in 193 years. David's brother Carl was in the same room the day it allegedly started. Carl saw nothing. Their parents divided over what was real. Their father slapped David during an episode — he stopped immediately. The Warrens arrived and the family started recording everything on cassette. Those tapes survived. On them, a child's voice drops into something guttural, screaming obscenities while his moth...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 14m 4s
Federal Intervention: Why Local Police Could Not Be Trusted with Sandra Birchmore’s Case
Sandra Birchmore was a child in a police youth program when officers allegedly began targeting her. She was twelve or thirteen years old. The program had no meaningful oversight or background checks on the officers who ran it. Years later, when Sandra was found dead, local investigators treated Matthew Farwell — the man now charged with her murder — as a colleague, not a suspect. He wasn't interrogated on camera. Building surveillance allegedly placed him at her apartment during the critical window. No one sought a warrant. The case was ruled self-inflicted and closed. The FBI had to take the case beca...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 13m 24s
Sandra Birchmore's Second Report Traces Back to Which Phone Call?
The chief who exposed three Stoughton officers in 2022 is on paid leave, and so is the town manager she's suing. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me to sort out the Donna McNamara fight and what it means for the Sandra Birchmore case.McNamara's lawsuit says Thomas Calter told her to resign or be fired three months before Matthew Farwell's trial, and that she was punished for working with federal investigators. Calter denies that.The lawsuit also says Calter called a second Birchmore report a hit piece and pushed her to destroy it. Calter says he...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 12m 49s
Farwell's Three Mistresses Never Got the One Order Sandra Birchmore Did
The FBI told the jury Matthew Farwell ordered Sandra Birchmore to delete their texts multiple times. On October 22, three women who had affairs with him testified he never asked them to delete anything, never wore a mask, and never hid from his own wife at a party. The defense says the mask was about hiding an affair, and every one of those affairs ended before COVID.Jason Pickard, the Army recruiter who fathered Sandra's baby, testified under immunity that she named Farwell as the father every time he asked. She also sent him the January 24, 2021 text about...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 22m 7s
Sandra Birchmore's Two Top Cops Both Saw Farwell's Video the Same Way
Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her Canton apartment in February 2021, and local investigators called it suicide. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me to break down the testimony that now has the investigation itself on trial.Prosecutors say Matthew Farwell, a Stoughton detective, was caught on camera entering her building in a mask that night. State troopers questioned him in a school parking lot. A State Police examiner found nothing on his phone and gave it back. The Norfolk District Attorney declined charges based on the suicide ruling.Now Stoughton's former deputy chief has testified...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 15m 10s
Matthew Farwell's DNA Showed Up on THIS in Sandra Birchmore's Closet
Matthew Farwell faces life in prison if a federal jury finds he killed Sandra Birchmore to stop her from reporting him. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis lays out the evidence the defense has to get past.According to prosecutors, Farwell met Sandra through the Stoughton police youth program when she was a teenager and the relationship began when she was 15. They say she was pregnant and believed he was the father when she died in February 2021. DNA later showed he wasn't, but prosecutors say Farwell thought he was.The government says his DNA was on the...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 17m 9s
Sandra Birchmore — What Really Happened Inside Stoughton’s Police Department?
What really happened to Sandra Birchmore inside the Stoughton Police Department spans more than a decade, involves three officers, and according to the department’s own former chief — the coverup is still underway. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of Nightbird, examines every layer of the case in a comprehensive four-part interview. Sandra entered a police youth program as a grieving child. The officers who ran it allegedly spent years targeting her. Matthew Farwell allegedly killed her the night before his wife’s delivery. His twin brother allegedly participated knowing Sandra was pregnant. Robert Devine ran the program and attacked Sandra’s credib...
Published: Oct 23, 2026Duration: 1h 1m 45s