Matthew Farwell: The Warning Stoughton Did WHAT With?!

A concerned friend called the Stoughton Police Department about Sandra Birchmore and Matthew Farwell. According to testimony at Farwell's federal murder trial, the dispatcher carried that concern directly to the detective. Matthew became visibly angry, told him never to talk about it again, and later sent a text describing the caller and Sandra as insane. The note of the call went into the trash. That is not a complicated procedural mystery. It is a question of what happened after someone tried to raise a warning. Tony Brueski and retired FBI behavioral expert Robin Dreeke connect this moment with the larger pattern prosecutors have presented. They allege Matthew Farwell repeatedly concealed his relationship with Sandra, told her to delete messages, and demanded that she regain his trust after learning she had been involved with his twin, William. Robin looks at what those demands suggest about the power imbalance, without pretending that a behavioral assessment can decide a murder charge. The institutional story stretches much further back. Stoughton Police had declined to hire William in 2011 after its chief cited troubling conduct. Six years later, William joined the department. Robert Devine's Police Explorers program put young participants in contact with the same adults who were supposed to mentor them. William would later testify under immunity about his own relationship with Sandra and what he knew of his brother's behavior. What did supervisors know? Which reports were formally recorded? How does a department respond when the person named in a complaint is one of its own? Those are questions listeners can evaluate against the testimony and the internal-investigation history. Matthew Farwell has pleaded not guilty to federal charges arising from Sandra's death. Prosecutors allege murder and a staged suicide; his lawyers deny he killed her. The live discussion keeps those allegations separate from established hiring records and sworn testimony, while asking why so many warnings failed to change the course of this story. 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 #HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #StoughtonPolice #WilliamFarwell #FarwellTrial #RobertDevine #TrueCrime #JusticeForSandra