Ex-Police Deputy Chief Allegedly Contacted Victim on Day of Death | Banfield

Case Overview: Sandra Birchmore

• 📌 Sandra Birchmore, 23 and three months pregnant, was found dead in her apartment on February 1st, 2021, in Canton, Massachusetts.
• 💔 What initially appeared to be a suicide is now being investigated as a murder due to a decade of alleged exploitation, deceit, and corruption involving Stoughton police.

Allegations Against Police Personnel

• 👮 Matthew Farwell, a Stoughton cop and former mentor in the Young Explorers program, is charged with Sandra's murder.
• 👨‍👧‍👦 Sandra's family filed a lawsuit accusing Matthew Farwell, his brother William Farwell, and former Stoughton Police Deputy Chief Robert Divine of grooming and repeated sexual assaults over a decade.
• 🚫 Both Farwell brothers and Divine deny any wrongdoing, and only Matthew Farwell faces murder charges.

New Revelations in Disciplinary Hearing

• 📰 A secret disciplinary hearing for Robert Divine has yielded new information, as reported by the Boston Globe.
• 📞 Authorities now believe former Deputy Chief Divine contacted Sandra Birchmore on the same day she died, February 1st, 2021.
• ❓ The nature, content, and response to this alleged contact remain unclear.

Circumstances of Death

• 💥 Matthew Farwell is alleged to have strangled Birchmore on the evening of February 1st, 2021.
• 📹 Surveillance video shows Farwell entering and leaving her apartment building that day.
• 👶 Sandra believed Farwell was the father of her unborn child, but DNA tests reportedly proved otherwise.

Upcoming Developments

• 🗓️ Matthew Farwell's murder trial has not yet been scheduled.
• 🔊 Video recordings from Robert Divine's hearings are being prepared for public release, potentially revealing more details soon.