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After the Matthew Farwell verdict, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me on True Crime Today to talk about the loyalty that surrounded Sandra Birchmore's killer, beginning with his twin brother. The former Stoughton police detective is guilty of killing Sandra and her unborn child.
William Farwell wore the same badge as his brother. He asked for immunity because he'd been with Sandra on duty, and he told the jury Sandra once texted him that she was fifteen when Matthew first got involved with her. William's reply to her was "Nice." A Stoughton dispatcher testified that when he told Matthew about a call from Sandra's friend, Matthew got angry and told him never to bring it up again.
Shavaun and I talk about the instinct to say "he'd never do that," how a man's own secrets shape his silence, and why staying out of it can feel safer than asking a hard question. We ask why people get angrier at whoever speaks up, and how you help someone report what she knows when she's afraid of what it will cost.
The conviction carries a mandatory life sentence, and Farwell is due back in court for sentencing in February.
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The Siders case out of Vinton County, Ohio, has four adults charged and four different mental-health rulings, and not one trial. Investigators say 16 children were found in a single 12-by-12-foot room, and none of the four parents and grandparents has gone before a jury.
The grandfather, Gary Siders Sr., had his case dismissed after he was found incompetent with no chance of being restored. The grandmother, Christina Siders, was sent to inpatient treatment to see if she can be restored. The father, Gary Siders Jr., has no hearing date. The mother, Elizabeth Siders, was ruled competent, and her lawyer wants a second exam to see whether she was legally insane at the time of the alleged crimes.
All four gave up their preliminary hearings, and a grand jury indicted them behind closed doors. Both search warrants executed at the house are still sealed, and a gag order bars officials from talking about Gary Jr.'s case, because his lawyer argued their early comments could sway potential jurors.
I lay out what each ruling does and doesn't decide, what an insanity verdict would lead to in Ohio, and what a juvenile court found about these same children years before anyone came to that house.
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Sandra Birchmore was still making plans with Matthew Farwell in her last weeks, and now that a federal jury has convicted him of killing her and her unborn child, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me on True Crime Today to talk about why.
Sandra grew up in the Stoughton police youth program and lost her mother and grandmother as a young woman. Prosecutors said Farwell's relationship with her began when she was fifteen. In her final weeks, she was asking a lawyer about putting his last name on the birth certificate, and texts in the case show the two of them fighting over what role he'd have once the baby came.
Shavaun and I talk about the pull an older man's attention has on a girl that age, how that kind of start can shape what a woman accepts later, and why being treated warmly one day and coldly the next can deepen the bond. We also get into realizing you've been used, and how to talk to a friend who keeps defending a man who's hurting her.
Farwell's sentencing is set for February, and he faces a mandatory life sentence.
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Sandra Birchmore's family gasped as the verdict was read: guilty on both counts for former Stoughton detective Matthew Farwell, convicted of killing Sandra and her unborn child. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me on True Crime Today to talk about how a man carries on after something like this.
The FBI says Farwell entered Sandra's Canton building in a hood and a medical mask the night she died, and that his wife delivered their third child within about 13 hours of that visit. Sandra was found dead three days after that night.
Shavaun and I talk through the inner script a man like this runs, whether real love for his own family can sit beside what he did to Sandra, and why an image can become more important than the truth. We ask what years without consequences do to a police officer, and how you'd tell genuine remorse from regret over getting caught.
The jury of eight men and four women deliberated over several days and at one point told the judge it was deadlocked. Farwell's sentencing is set for February, and the conviction carries a mandatory life sentence.
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Matthew Farwell's judge read the jury's deadlock note and told jurors they hadn't deliberated long enough. Bob Motta of Defense Diaries noted Judge Denise Casper hadn't given the instruction meant to push a stuck jury. Motta and retired FBI behavior chief Robin Dreeke take Tony through the whole Matthew Farwell trial: the prosecution's case built on Sandra Birchmore's texting habits, the defense's claim that she took her own life, and Farwell's decision to stay silent. Motta explains the two-part federal charge and why the second part is where trials like this get stuck. Dreeke warns that people outside the courtroom are reading testimony through filters, without the tone jurors heard. Tony asks whether a state case would expose Farwell to far more people than this one has.
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