Former Stoughton officer due in court, charged with murder of Sandra Birchmore

Former Stoughton Police Officer Matthew Farwell charged with killing a pregnant woman is headed to court Sandra Birchmore was murdered in Canton four years ago the episode is being tried in federal court in Boston where a pre-trial conference is scheduled for Thursday Prosecutors declared Farwell who is no longer an officer killed Birchmore in According to the federal indictment he strangled her in her Canton apartment and made it look like a suicide Farwell allegedly started having sex with Birchmore when she was and in the police department s youth mentor activity where he was an instructor Prosecutors declared Birchmore advised Farwell she was pregnant with his child and about one month later her killed her Her death was initially declared a suicide before the intervention of federal prosecutors