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In 2011, a Stoughton police chief wrote that William Farwell's past behavior was incompatible with police work. In 2017, the department hired him. Years later, William testified under immunity in the federal trial of his twin brother Matthew, a former detective accused of murdering Sandra Birchmore. That span of years is essential to understanding what went wrong around the young woman who entered a police youth program looking for a career in law enforcement.
Tony Brueski and retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke trace the difference between a troubling allegation and an institutional decision documented in records. Internal findings described misconduct involving Sandra and Stoughton officers associated with the Police Explorers program, including its former leader Robert Devine. Prosecutors argue Matthew's relationship with Sandra began while she was underage and became a hidden system of control. They point to messages and instructions to delete communications, along with allegations that Matthew demanded Sandra re-earn his trust after she told him about William.
On January 20, 2021, a worried friend contacted the department. Dispatcher James Fitton later testified that Matthew reacted with anger to the news of the call, told him not to discuss it, and sent a hostile text. Fitton said the handwritten note of the caller's report was discarded. Why was there no more effective response to the concern? The answer matters beyond one defendant.
Federal prosecutors accuse Matthew Farwell of killing Sandra and staging her death as a suicide to hide wrongdoing. His defense says the relationship was wrong but that he did not kill her. He has pleaded not guilty, and the jury must decide criminal responsibility.
This combined episode explores the family of decisions around the Farwell brothers: the mentoring program, hiring warnings, testimony about overlapping relationships, and a department response that deserves scrutiny. The most revealing questions begin before the alleged crime itself.
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It is easy to say a getaway car was never identified because the streets were too dark. It is much harder to prove what individual cameras could have seen on the night Nancy Guthrie disappeared. That gap is where Jennifer Coffindaffer’s field observations meet the forensic questions surrounding Nancy’s front porch.
Nancy was last seen at her Tucson home on the night of January 31, 2026. During the early morning hours of February 1, her doorbell camera disconnected at 1:47, its software detected activity at 2:12, and a phone application connected to her pacemaker lost contact at 2:28. Authorities believe she was taken against her will. The 2:28 timestamp establishes a device disconnection, not the exact time of an abduction.
Coffindaffer, a retired FBI agent, says she returned to the Catalina Foothills neighborhood after midnight to evaluate visibility for herself. She found more ambient light than she expected and points to streets and businesses that might have had surveillance coverage. Those are potential leads, not proof that footage exists or that investigators overlooked a car. Her own phone reportedly struggled to record what her eyes could see.
She has also raised questions about possible biological or contact evidence on Nancy’s porch: specifically, whether a mat and a torn clump of vegetation were properly preserved. The publicly reported record does not independently resolve those collection questions. Separately, a hair sample recovered from the house was sent through a Florida laboratory to the FBI. Testing described months later was inconclusive.
Tony Brueski, Jennifer Coffindaffer and former FBI behavioral specialist Robin Dreeke examine how darkness, surveillance limitations and evidence-handling records can shape an investigation. The standard is not whether an explanation sounds plausible. It is whether the records and tests actually support it. Nancy’s disappearance remains an open question.
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Eleven jurors were ready to find Lindsay Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity, and her lawyers now want the murder charges thrown out for good. Eric Faddis, a defense attorney and former prosecutor, is with me on the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, Matthew Farwell and Alex Murdaugh. Clancy's lawyers told Judge William Sullivan on November 2nd he should have questioned the lone holdout or seated an alternate instead of declaring a mistrial.
Matthew Farwell's closing arguments are Friday, November 6th. Prosecutors say the former Stoughton detective strangled Sandra Birchmore, and the lobby camera shows him walking in a minute after her 9:13 text and out at 9:43. Farwell's lawyers say the 2021 trooper saw no signs of a struggle.
Alex Murdaugh's four murder indictments come up November 13th. His lawyers argue the lead SLED agent misled the grand jury in July 2022 by describing Maggie's and Paul's blood on a shirt his own lab had tested and found no human blood on. Eric tells me who never sees another jury.
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Tylee Ryan, 16. JJ Vallow, 7. Tammy Daybell, 49. Charles Vallow, 62. This four-part docu-series tells the full story of the case that took their lives, and of the two people convicted in it.
Part 1 traces the separate lives of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell before October 2018. Part 2 follows the beliefs witnesses say they shared, Charles Vallow's warnings, and his July 2019 shooting by Lori's brother, Alex Cox. Part 3 covers the disappearance of Lori's children in September 2019, Tammy Daybell's death that October, the couple's Hawaii wedding, and the June 2020 discovery on Chad's property. Part 4 follows the prosecutions: Lori's 2023 conviction and life sentence, Chad's 2024 conviction and death sentence, Lori's two 2025 Arizona convictions, and her pending appeal to the Idaho Supreme Court.
Tony Brueski builds each part on court testimony, filings and the public record. Watch or listen in order for the complete picture.
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In June 2025, a South Carolina judge threw out Michael Colucci's murder indictment after the lead SLED agent on the Alex Murdaugh case admitted he never wrote down what the victim's mother told him. The judge ruled the State had kept that from the jury. Eric Faddis, a defense attorney and former prosecutor, is with me on why that ruling matters to Alex.
Alex's lawyers argue his four murder indictments should be thrown out for the same reason. The same agent told a grand jury in July 2022 that Alex's shirt carried Maggie and Paul's blood, after the State's lab had already found no human blood on it.
In August 2021, he had told Alex that shotguns at the house were loaded like the gun that killed Paul. He swore to that before the grand jury, then called it a trick at trial and agreed it was not accurate.
The hearing is November 13, 2026, and the retrial is set for April 2027.
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