The FBI has been swirling around the Read case - along with another investigation by the same Norfolk County District ...

A Massachusetts police oversight agency is attempting to revoke the police certification of an officer tied to the Sandra Birchmore case. A hearing that began last week will continue at a later date.

Matthew Farwell is charged in the Feb. 1, 2021, death in Massachusetts of Sandra Birchmore, who weeks earlier had told him she was pregnant with his child, officials said.

Matt Farwell refused to provide DNA to detectives investigating Sandra Birchmore’s death. Does he regret it now? By Laura Crimaldi Globe Staff,Updated June 25, 2025, 9:07 a.m.

Matthew Farwell was indicted on charges he strangled Sandra Birchmore after she told him that she was pregnant and that he was the father.

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 ...

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.

Sandra Birchmore was pregnant when Matthew Farwell, then a Massachusetts police detective, allegedly killed her to cover up years of sexual exploitation.

Matthew Farwell was charged with killing Sandra Birchmore, 23, to stop her from revealing that he allegedly had groomed her as a teenager.

Is Matthew Farwell still a police officer anywhere else? Two years later, in March of 2024, Matthew Farwell was effectively banned from working as a law enforcement officer in the state of ...

State officials hope to revoke the policing license of Robert Devine, the former Stoughton deputy police chief and a key ...