S6E2 - Matthew Farwell trial | Recap opening statements in case over Sandra Birchmore's death
Published: October 10, 2026
Duration: 19:27
The former Stoughton police detective is standing trial for allegedly killing a woman he'd groomed and had a sexual relationship with beginning when she was 15, then staging her death to look like a suicide. We have full analysis from inside federal court in Boston and go over the similarities in the Farwell-Birchmore case to another high-profile Norfolk County legal saga: Karen Read's. You can watch the TV version of this episode — and all the others, as
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