Matthew Farwell Went Home to a Newborn After Killing Sandra. What Was He Thinking?

Sandra Birchmore's family gasped as the verdict was read: guilty on both counts for former Stoughton detective Matthew Farwell, convicted of killing Sandra and her unborn child. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me on True Crime Today to talk about how a man carries on after something like this.

The FBI says Farwell entered Sandra's Canton building in a hood and a medical mask the night she died, and that his wife delivered their third child within about 13 hours of that visit. Sandra was found dead three days after that night.

Shavaun and I talk through the inner script a man like this runs, whether real love for his own family can sit beside what he did to Sandra, and why an image can become more important than the truth. We ask what years without consequences do to a police officer, and how you'd tell genuine remorse from regret over getting caught.

The jury of eight men and four women deliberated over several days and at one point told the judge it was deadlocked. Farwell's sentencing is set for February, and the conviction carries a mandatory life sentence.

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