True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Sandra Birchmore’s fractured hyoid bone is one of the most heavily contested details in Matthew Farwell’s federal murder trial. Prosecutors allege the former Stoughton police officer strangled Birchmore, who was pregnant, and staged the scene at her Canton apartment in February 2021. The defense says she died by suicide. Farwell has pleaded not guilty.
Outside forensic experts have argued the fracture and the way Birchmore’s body was positioned do not fit the hanging scenario. The defense challenges their conclusions and intends to offer an alternative interpretation of the physical evidence. Investigators also documented a strap that prosecutors call the murder weapon; a forensic scientist testified that Farwell’s DNA was found on it. What that finding establishes is part of the jury’s job.
Her messages provide another timeline. Days before her death, Birchmore told a friend that Farwell wanted a key and had been looking in her closet and bathroom. She reportedly described his behavior as odd. The prosecution sees those movements as significant. Under questioning, the friend acknowledged it was possible he was looking for another man.
The October 23 testimony focused on Birchmore’s mental health. Her therapist, Diala Alkhalil, said she had never observed suicidal thinking in their sessions and remembered Birchmore anticipating motherhood. The defense pointed to older expressions of distress and raised Zoloft’s warnings. The therapist also recounted Birchmore’s account of seeing her late mother standing at the foot of the bed.
DNA testing identified Jason Pickard as the unborn baby’s biological father, not Farwell, as Birchmore had believed. This combined episode follows the physical findings and the final-days testimony without treating any single fact as a verdict. Each detail is important because the two sides are asking jurors to draw radically different conclusions from the same record.
Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292

Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1

Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/

Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod

X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod

This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.
#SandraBirchmore #MatthewFarwell #TrueCrimeToday #HyoidBone #FarwellTrial #FederalCourt #StoughtonPolice #ForensicEvidence #TrueCrimeNews #Massachusetts

Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s history with Dee Dee Blanchard contains a warning that looks enormous in hindsight. Neurologist Bernardo Flasterstein examined Gypsy, questioned the serious diagnoses Dee Dee reported, and wrote that he believed Dee Dee had Munchausen by proxy. He later said he did not think he had enough information to report the case to child protection.
Dee Dee moved Gypsy’s care away from that doctor. The medical story continued through a wheelchair, a feeding tube, salivary-gland surgery, and other treatment while Dee Dee claimed older records had been destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The family also received major charitable support, including a Habitat for Humanity home and a Make-A-Wish trip. The fraud was not exposed through the medical system before Dee Dee’s 2015 death.
The second half turns to Ken Urker, the father of Gypsy’s daughter. He was found dead at his Raceland, Louisiana home on October 1, 2026. Deputies reported finding syringes, a spoon, a brown powdery substance, two shot glasses, and a holstered handgun. Authorities said the investigation remained open, and the coroner said toxicology was still pending.
Gypsy initially said she believed Ken overdosed but did not know whether it was intentional. Weeks later, she wrote in her Kenan’s Law petition that she was “100 percent” certain his death was not suicide. We trace the gap between those statements and the official findings available at the time. From a doctor’s written suspicion years ago to a new claim made before toxicology was public, this combined episode is about what the record says, what people say, and the space between them.
Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292

Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1

Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/

Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod

X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod

This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.
#GypsyRose #DeeDeeBlanchard #TrueCrimeToday #KenUrker #GypsyRoseBlanchard #MedicalFraud #MunchausenByProxy #KenansLaw #TrueCrimeNews #Louisiana

Prosecutors have rested in the Matthew Farwell trial, and police reports say he hit a pole head-on as the FBI investigated. On November 2, 2026, the Idaho Supreme Court hears the Lori Vallow appeal.
The crash, he told officers, happened because a deer ran beneath the truck's hood. Farwell has entered a not-guilty plea, and his lawyers say Sandra Birchmore took her own life after he ended things.
On October 26, 2026, the medical examiner who ruled Sandra's death a suicide testified she was never once asked if it was suspicious. If convicted, the former patrolmen's union president faces life without parole in federal prison.
Lori seeks a new trial, arguing the judge took away her right to the attorney she hired. Defense lawyer and onetime prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Robin Dreeke, a retired agent who ran the FBI counterintelligence behavioral program, to weigh what comes next.
Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292
Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1
Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod
X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod
This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.
#SandraBirchmore #LoriVallow #TrueCrimeToday #MatthewFarwell #ChadDaybell #FarwellTrial #IdahoSupremeCourt #EricFaddis #RobinDreeke #TrueCrime

Ronald "Butch" DeFeo Jr. shot his parents and four siblings in their beds at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, on November 13, 1974. His mother had warned the cleaning woman that something tragic was coming. His father had ignored a loaded shotgun misfire years earlier. At trial, DeFeo told the jury he killed them all in self-defense and that he was God with a gun in his hand. He spent forty-five years in prison changing the story — blaming his dead sister, inventing a wife, telling a new version with every visitor.
Thirteen months after the murders, George and Kathy Lutz moved three children into the house and left after twenty-eight days. The book said A True Story on the cover and sold millions. The movie earned eighty million dollars. Their own lawyer said they had created the story over wine. George trademarked the name and sued one of the children he had moved in. Two of them spoke. Missy, who was five, never has.
Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292
Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1
Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod
X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod
This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.
#Amityville #RonaldDeFeo #HiddenKillers #DeFeoMurders #AmityvilleHorror #GeorgeLutz #112OceanAvenue #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeDocumentary #ColdCase

The Idaho Supreme Court takes up the Lori Vallow appeal on November 2, 2026, with no deadline for a ruling. The main fight is over a judge removing Mark Means as her lawyer.
Means was being paid by Chad Daybell, who was charged alongside Lori in the murders, so the trial judge found Means couldn't represent both. Lori argues the removal violated her right to the attorney she chose, so she wants the case retried.
She also asks the court to throw out every Idaho charge over a speedy trial she says she demanded and never got. The state says the wait from her May 2021 charges to an April 2023 trial came from her mental hospital stay, the Boise move she requested, and the case's size. Former FBI counterintelligence behavioral chief Robin Dreeke and Eric Faddis, a prosecutor turned defense attorney, join me on where this goes next.
Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292
Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1
Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod
X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod
This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.
#LoriVallow #ChadDaybell #TrueCrimeToday #LoriVallowDaybell #IdahoSupremeCourt #LoriVallowAppeal #JJVallow #TyleeRyan #EricFaddis #RobinDreeke