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Sandra Birchmore was ruled a suicide by a system with four officers' fingerprints on it. Bob Motta ranks what each one did. The lead trooper, Matthew Dunne, who chose a parking lot over an interview room, a conversation over a recording, and now admits Farwell lied to him. The forensic examiner, Nicholas Guarino, who read mfarwell1 off Sandra's phone and still sent Farwell's phone home clean. The supervisor, Sgt. John Fanning, who prosecutors say told Farwell's twin the case was dead before it started and who went on to run the Karen Read investigation. And the twin himself, Officer William Farwell, who admitted his own relationship with Sandra, lied to state police, and was permanently decertified. Four segments, one full episode, and the FBI had to redo every piece of it. Farwell is charged with killing Sandra and her unborn child. His defense says suicide. Trial continues in Boston.
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Timmy Gibson knows the evangelical playbook from the inside. He pastored for thirty years and walked away. On Homicide Happy Hour, he explained why Caleb Flynn will never admit to what he did. Flynn was convicted on all nine counts in the murder of his wife Ashley in Tipp City, Ohio, and sentenced to life without parole. Gibson says the same mental gymnastics that let Flynn justify the affair now justify the silence. The system teaches that your primary debt is to God, not to the person you harmed. When Flynn said "God is my judge," he meant it literally. Tony brought up Alleigha Botner's missing laptop and phone. Gibson believes Botner was operating under the assumption that Flynn would divorce his wife. She was preparing for that fight, not a murder investigation. Gibson says the entire structure of evangelical faith made Flynn's double life not just possible but inevitable.
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The federal indictment against Matthew Farwell alleges that after a friend of Sandra Birchmore's called Stoughton police on January 20th, 2021, to report their relationship, a department employee told Farwell about it. Prosecutors say that's when he started planning. Sandra died twelve days later. The call itself lasted three minutes with two holds, and the recording was automatically deleted. Matthew's twin brother William was a Stoughton officer who admitted his own relationship with Sandra, gave state police false information, and was permanently decertified in September 2024. The department's internal investigation found all three officers involved with Sandra misled the troopers who ruled her death a suicide. Bob Motta on how a complaint travels inside a police department and who it reaches first. Farwell is charged with killing Sandra and her unborn child. His defense says suicide. Trial continues in Boston.
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Barry Morphew’s murder case was dismissed in April 2022 — the prosecution’s tranquilizer theory had no body, no confirmed drugs, and no cause of death. Then investigators found Suzanne. CBI agents recovered remains in Saguache County on September 22, 2023. Dental records and DNA confirmed the identification. Bone testing found butorphanol, azaperone, and medetomidine — three compounds that form BAM, a wildlife immobilizer for sedating large animals. The medical examiner ruled homicide. The original case had theorized this exact drug based on a dart gun and a needle cap at the Morphew property. Now the chemicals were confirmed in Suzanne’s remains. Barry’s access to BAM came through his Indiana deer operation. His last prescription was filled March 2018. He told investigators he’d used BAM in Colorado in April 2020 — one month before Suzanne vanished. In the same interviews, he denied it. No other private purchaser in the surveyed region was identified between 2017 and 2020.
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The prosecution's opening in the Matthew Farwell trial put one sentence in front of the jury that changes how you read everything else. Sgt. John Fanning, the supervisor over Sandra Birchmore's death investigation, allegedly told Farwell's twin brother on February 11th, 2021, that the death was a suicide, nothing was criminal, and they needed the case like they needed a bullet in the head. William Farwell told the FBI that's what he heard. Fanning's unit closed the file without a search warrant. Trooper Dunne says Fanning chose the unrecorded parking lot interview. Fanning later supervised the Norfolk CPAC unit through the Karen Read case, where jurors acquitted and a trooper was fired. Bob Motta on what a supervisor is for and what this one allegedly did with the job. Farwell is charged with killing Sandra and her unborn child. The defense says suicide. Trial continues in Boston.
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