SANDRA BIRCHMORE: MA vs. Matthew Farwell for 2021 murder and cover-up *TRIAL IN PROGRESS*

I used to start a fair amount of case threads but life has me not doing so in quite awhile. The title will likely need more info, date, etc. and an intro.

I don't know enough yet to have an opinion but keep running into this case. Of course it jump started due to being the same area as Karen Read with LE involvement and yet nothing about them is similar. Night and day different.

An issue I have with cases of suicides or drownings, some various things like that is when they rule such accidental or suicide when it cannot be known. Not saying they aren't right in a lot of cases but short of solid proof it is such, I think they should in many cases be ruled undetermined.

It seems this one is heating up and I think a thread should be started but a mod may have to tweak my title and intro.

 

[Guess Who]

I don’t think it matters who the father was, I think it matters who the defendant thought the father was.

Exactly. Motive.

 

[Kimster]

 

[Kimster]

Does anyone here think Sandra committed suicide?

 

[Guess Who]

Does anyone here think Sandra committed suicide?

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Does anyone here think Sandra committed suicide?

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Prosecution expert testifies Sandra Birchmore was strangled, crime scene was altered

Forensic Doctor William Smock, an expert witness for the prosecution, told jurors Tuesday, “Ms. Birchmore was the victim of a homicidal act.”

www.boston25news.com

Prosecution expert testifies Sandra Birchmore was strangled, crime scene was altered​

Forensic Doctor William Smock, an expert witness for the prosecution, told jurors Tuesday, “Ms. Birchmore was the victim of a homicidal act.”

Dr. Smock said Birchmore’s cause of death was asphyxia related to strangulation and her manner of death was homicide.

Birchmore was found dead in her Canton apartment, seated on the ground, with a duffel bag strap ligature around her neck that was attached to her bedroom closet door.

Doctor Smock came to the conclusion that, “This is an altered crime scene and that she was killed before the ligature was tied around the door.”

Part of Smock’s testimony focused on a bone in the neck, called a hyoid bone.

Smock said Birchmore’s hyoid bone was fractured inward and that fracture was on the right side, yet her neck was tilted to the left.

He said this is not consistent with a partial hanging.

“This is consistent with a strangulation where the bone is squeezed inward,” said Dr. Smock.

Birchmore was also found with a red imprint on her right upper chest.

Smock said that mark was made by a clasp on the ligature strap pressing on her, but also said the clasp was tied around the doorknob when she was found.

He said it tells him the injury occurred before it was tied up.

Smock said that Birchmore’s hair being in the ligature is also a major “red flag.”

 

[Kimster]

The prosecution has rested.

Matthew Farwell trial recap: Prosecution rests its case on Sandra Birchmore's death

A major turning point in the Matthew Farwell murder trial came as prosecutors rested their case Wednesday. The defense began making its own in the Sandra Birchmore case.

www.nbcboston.com