Leo Hengstler drove the ambulance that responded to the Brookfield Boarding Kennels on February 16, 1981. He testified to something that appears in no book, no movie, and no dramatization of this case. He heard Read more…
Two of the biggest cases on the docket share a question about the police, and Eric Faddis joins me to work through both Sandra Birchmore and Alex Murdaugh. The FBI says a Stoughton police employee Read more…
Every year the Assemblies of God sends licensed ministers a form asking whether they’ve upheld the moral code. Timmy Gibson says not one pastor he personally knew answered honestly. On Homicide Happy Hour, Gibson explained Read more…
Alex Murdaugh’s lawyers asked for one thing the state didn’t want to give them, and on October 16 Judge Debra McCaslin gave it to them anyway. Eric Faddis joins me to weigh the ruling. The Read more…
David Glatzel was 11 years old when he described visions of Arne Johnson killing someone. Months before anyone died. Before February 16, 1981, when Johnson stabbed Alan Bono on the lawn of a Brookfield, Connecticut Read more…
Donna McNamara ordered the 2021 investigation that found three Stoughton officers had inappropriate relationships with Sandra Birchmore. Now McNamara is the one on leave, and Eric Faddis joins me to ask how. Her lawsuit says Read more…
Sarah Sproul had an affair with Matthew Farwell while she was friends with his wife. She testified that at parties, with his wife in the room, he’d come around a corner to kiss her. He Read more…
For more than three years, the official word was that Sandra Birchmore took her own life. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me to go through the five strongest signs, all from sworn testimony, that the Read more…
Sandra Birchmore’s death was ruled a suicide for more than three years. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me to break down why federal prosecutors now say it was murder, and the hurdles Matthew Farwell’s defense Read more…
Sandra Birchmore’s case didn’t involve one officer — it involved three, connected through one youth program, allegedly targeting one girl for over a decade. And the coverup is still happening. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines the Read more…
On Homicide Happy Hour, former thirty-year pastor Timmy Gibson looked into the camera and called JP Miller a cult leader. He confirmed the label with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott before the recording. Gibson says Miller’s sermons Read more…
Sandra Birchmore’s police chief refused to destroy an investigation into the officers — and paid for it. Chief Donna McNamara allegedly opened a second probe into the Stoughton department and says Town Manager Robin Calter Read more…
Suzanne Morphew sent her last confirmed text at 2:11 p.m. on May 9, 2020. Barry Morphew was home by 2:43. By the next morning, Suzanne’s phone was dark, her bicycle was found thrown down a Read more…
William Farwell knew Sandra Birchmore was pregnant with his twin brother Matthew’s baby. Prosecutors allege he participated anyway. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines what that decision reveals about the dynamic between officers who allegedly shared access Read more…
Matthew Farwell helped train Detective Daniel Barber in 2013 and shared the detective office with him on the four-to-midnight shift. Barber testified that in eight years, Farwell never once reached out off duty to ask Read more…
Matthew Farwell hated masks. Prosecutors say he put one on for the first time the night Sandra Birchmore died — the one night his face needed to be hidden. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines what happens Read more…
Sandra Birchmore wanted to have Matthew Farwell’s baby. She believed the officer who had access to her since childhood loved her. When DNA testing showed Farwell was not the biological father, what Sandra felt about Read more…
The trooper. The examiner. The supervisor. The brother. Sandra Birchmore’s death went through all four, and every one of them is now a reason the FBI had to start over. Trooper Dunne testified he never Read more…
When Caleb Flynn said “God is my judge” after his conviction, most people heard arrogance. Timmy Gibson heard something more specific. Gibson pastored evangelical churches for three decades before leaving. On Homicide Happy Hour, he Read more…
A three-minute phone call to the Stoughton Police Department on January 20th, 2021, should have ended Matthew Farwell’s career. Instead, prosecutors say, it ended Sandra Birchmore’s life. The caller reported Sandra’s relationship with Farwell. She Read more…
The first murder case against Barry Morphew collapsed in April 2022. The prosecution’s tranquilizer theory had no body to support it. Seventeen months later, Suzanne Morphew’s remains were recovered in Saguache County — roughly fifty Read more…
Sgt. John Fanning supervised the Massachusetts State Police unit that ruled Sandra Birchmore’s death a suicide. Prosecutors told the jury that when Fanning interviewed Matthew Farwell’s twin brother William on February 11th, 2021, he said Read more…
Sandra Birchmore’s doctor screened her for depression on January 21. She scored high. The last question asked whether she’d had any thoughts of hurting herself in the past seven days. Sandra scored a zero. Eight Read more…
Nicholas Guarino held Sandra Birchmore’s digital life in his hands. Her password was Matthew Farwell’s name. He got into her laptop with it. Then he searched Farwell’s phone for messages with Sandra, found zero, and Read more…
Trooper Matthew Dunne had one chance to get Matthew Farwell on the record about the night Sandra Birchmore died. He chose a school parking lot, no recorder, no notebook, and testified he did it so Read more…
One episode covers two cases and two courtrooms. Murdaugh’s defense surfaced unknown male DNA under both of Maggie’s fingernails and on the phone thrown from the car — evidence SLED left untested. A federal prisoner’s Read more…
A man who pastored for thirty years and left the faith entirely sat down for Homicide Happy Hour and said what insiders know but don’t say. Caleb Flynn led worship while carrying on a relationship Read more…
His personal phone was already with State Police. So Matthew Farwell went to his department-issued work phone. Eight days after Sandra Birchmore died, he searched whether consent can be revoked in Massachusetts and whether deleted Read more…
Barry Morphew left his Chaffee County home before dawn on Mother’s Day 2020 for a construction job in Broomfield — more than a hundred miles east. He told investigators Suzanne was asleep when he left. Read more…
These are not allegations from a witness. They are Matthew Farwell’s own words, preserved on his phone and read aloud in federal court. An FBI agent spoke Sandra Birchmore’s side. A prosecutor spoke his. He Read more…