Someone Reported Matthew Farwell — Shortly Before Sandra Birchmore Died

A year ago, we covered the death of Sandra Birchmore. Since then, the evidence, the timeline, and what investigators knew about a critical call have all changed. In this episode, we break down what happened to the Sandra Birchmore call before her death — and how one detail may have shifted the entire investigation. Matthew Farwell, a former Stoughton police detective, is now facing federal charges in connection to the death of Sandra Birchmore — a 23-year-old police explorer found dead in her Canton apartment in 2021. Her death was initially ruled a suicide. Federal investigators now disagree. Drew and Jon analyze the call timeline, newly surfaced evidence, and what responders and investigators may or may not have known in real time — and what that means for the case moving forward. Drew Breasy is a retired police commander with 29 years of experience in criminal investigations, narcotics, wiretap and warrant construction, and interview and interrogation. Jon is an active 911 dispatcher and certified crisis negotiator with 11 years of frontline experience. Neither of us is an attorney. Sandra Birchmore wanted to be a police officer her whole life. She trusted people who wore the badge with her safety. We will hold them accountable just the same. Trial date: October 5, 2026 | US v. Farwell | District of Massachusetts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 What Changed Since Our Original Episode 02:10 Who Was Sandra Birchmore — Jon's Read 04:00 Calling Balls and Strikes — We Are Not Attorneys 04:40 The Non-Emergency Call — What Should Have Happened 07:17 Geography and the Digital Timeline 08:07 Surveillance Footage and Apple Health Data 09:21 Phone Lock Data and What It Tells Investigators 11:18 Time Drift Explained 12:02 Named Officer, Named Victim — What Was in the System 13:37 Did Responding Officers Know About the Complaint? 14:36 Scene Response — What Canton PD Found and Missed 15:56 Treat Every Death Scene Like the Case of the Century 16:36 The Correction — What We Got Wrong 17:26 The Canton Audit — Five Stones Intelligence 18:24 The DNA Evidence and the False Statement 18:53 Three Premeditation Witnesses 22:00 The Forensic Record — Competing Pathologists 24:09 Dr. Baden, Dr. Smock, and the DoD Pathologist 25:12 Why Farwell Was Never Formally Interrogated 27:30 The Reenactment — Intimate Knowledge of the Crime Scene 30:39 The POST Commission — Four Decertifications 34:34 The Federal Charges — Count One and Count Two 35:04 The DNA Paternity Reveal and What It Means for Motive 35:48 The Defense Case 37:33 Looking Toward the Federal Trial — October 5, 2026 38:48 Closing — Sandra Birchmore ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe for operational true crime analysis from the only channel where an active 911 dispatcher and a retired police commander break it down from the first call to the courtroom. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #TrueCrime #FederalTrial #911Dispatcher #LawEnforcement #ColdCase #PoliceCorruption #TheCommCenter #CriminalInvestigation The Comm Center offers expert insights into true crime and emergency response from seasoned professionals. Drew, a retired law enforcement officer with 29 years of experience as a detective, police supervisor, and 911 center administrator, joins Jon, an active 911 dispatcher with over 10 years in dispatch, plus experience as a corrections supervisor and retail theft prevention officer. Together, they provide trusted analysis and a rare look into real-life law enforcement and dispatch work. Subscribe for in-depth, reliable perspectives from those who know the job firsthand. Subscribe to @thecommcenter AFFILIATE LINKS Another way to help support the show: Some links may be affiliate links. As an Amazon/YouTube affiliate, I may earn a commission if you make a purchase — at no extra cost to you. CHECK OUT Drew's new Amazon Storefront. He receives a commission if you buy linked products. Amazon : https://amzn.to/4gck8K6 Scripts and Content Guidance : yoinkit.ai : https://yoinkit.ai/?fpr=drew10 Shorts Made with OpusClip : https://www.opus.pro/?via=1f17a7 Sick Thumbnails made with: https://pikzels.com?via=n2ie3z Cool Social Media Posts : ThreadMaster: https://www.threadmaster.ai/?ref=drew We Use StreamYard for our Stream : https://streamyard.com/pal/c/59576101... VidIQ Link : https://vidiq.com/commcenter ______________________________ For more true crime from the inside, SUBSCRIBE on @thecommcenter