Prosecutors have indicted Matthew Farwell, a former Stoughton police detective, on charges that he killed 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore. Birchmore was pregnant at the time of her death in February ...

A former Massachusetts police detective is accused of murdering a pregnant woman to prevent her from revealing that he allegedly groomed her as a teenager and then staging her death as a suicide.

They allege that Matthew Farwell killed Sandra Birchmore years after he began grooming and sexually abusing her as a youth in the Stoughton Police Explorers Academy. Farwell was an instructor in ...

Farwell on charges that he killed Sandra Birchmore. (Olivia Yarvis/Globe Staff) Former Stoughton police detective Matthew G. Farwell was indicted Wednesday on a federal charge that he killed a 23 ...

BOSTON - Former Stoughton, Massachusetts police officer Matthew Farwell, accused of killing a pregnant woman in 2021, has filed a request in federal court asking for his detention hearing next ...

Matthew Farwell, 38, of North Easton, is accused of fatally strangling Birchmore to prevent police “from learning about their sexual relationship, which began when she was a minor,” said the U ...

Matthew Farwell was a Stoughton, Mass., cop when he allegedly groomed a 15-year-old girl whom he forced into years of abuse before faking her apparent suicide. Publisher & CEO A former police ...

FBI officials in Boston saidMatthew Farwell was arrested for allegedly killing Sandra Birchmore. Farwell worked for theStoughton Police Department when 23-year-oldBirchmore was found dead in her ...

Former Stoughton police detective Matthew Farwell will remain jailed pending trial on federal allegations that the married father killed a 23-year-old woman in 2021 who said she was pregnant with ...

BOSTON – William Farwell, the brother of the former Stoughton police officer charged with killing Sandra Birchmore, had his police certification permanently revoked by the Massachusetts Peace ...