BOSTON (Court TV) — DNA test results show that a former Massachusetts police officer accused of killing his mistress after she told him she was pregnant did not father her unborn child.
This photo provided by the Stoughton, Mass., Police Department shows Matthew Farwell, a former police officer who pleaded not guilty Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024, to charges of killing a woman he is accused of sexually exploiting when she was underage and then trying to stage the death as a suicide after she told him she was pregnant. (Stoughton Police Department via AP)
The stunning turn of events was reported by the Boston Globe after two people spoke to the newspaper on condition of anonymity.
Matthew Farwell allegedly began having sex with Sandra Birchmore when she was 15 and he was 26. Birchmore was 23 when her body was found in her Canton apartment. Her death by strangulation was ruled a suicide. Farwell’s wife was in labor with the couple’s third child while he was allegedly killing Birchmore. Seven years later, prosecutors filed charges against Farwell, saying he staged her death to look like a suicide…