Police

Emma Camp | 8.30.2024 3:59 PM

On Tuesday, a former Massachusetts police officer was charged with murdering a pregnant woman and staging her death to look like a suicide to prevent her from revealing that he had groomed her starting when she was just 15.

Matthew Farwell, now 38, allegedly strangled 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore in 2021. According to prosecutors, Farwell killed Birchmore weeks after she told him she was pregnant with his child. Farwell was allegedly worried that Birchmore would tell other Stoughton, Massachusetts, police officers about their relationship.

"Birchmore was a vulnerable person," Stoughton Police Chief Donna McNamara said in 2022, after an investigation revealed Farwell's relationship with........

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