Alan Bono was 40 years old. He managed a kennel in Brookfield, Connecticut. He was stabbed on his own lawn on February 16, 1981 — the town’s first homicide in 193 years. Three films, a Read more…
Federal prosecutors say Matthew Farwell’s DNA was found on a duffel bag strap recovered around Sandra Birchmore’s neck. The defense disputes the government’s account of her death. Tony Brueski and former prosecutor Eric Faddis unpack Read more…
Sandra Birchmore’s investigators chose an interview that left no recording and no notes. Trooper Matthew Dunne told a federal jury his supervisor, Sgt. John Fanning, made the tactical call to question Matthew Farwell in a Read more…
Maggie Murdaugh’s fingernails are back at the center of Alex Murdaugh’s murder case. At the October 16 hearing, defense lawyers said additional testing found unidentified male DNA beneath both hands, and they argued that a Read more…
A January 2021 complaint about Matthew Farwell reached Stoughton police. According to federal prosecutors, an employee then alerted Farwell himself. The indictment leaves that employee unnamed. Sandra Birchmore’s friend had tried to tell the department Read more…
Nicholas Guarino found a password containing Matthew Farwell’s name on Sandra Birchmore’s phone. He used it to access her MacBook. Then he searched Farwell’s iPhone for messages with Sandra, found none, and returned the phone Read more…
Arne Johnson has never said the devil made him do it. Not in any interview, not in any documentary, not in any recorded statement over more than four decades. What he told police the night Read more…
Matthew Farwell was questioned about Sandra Birchmore in a school parking lot. State Trooper Matthew Dunne told a federal jury the conversation was neither recorded nor documented in notes. Dunne said the approach was intended Read more…
Matthew Farwell’s defense attorney described Sandra Birchmore’s death as an impulsive act of despair. Federal prosecutors say DNA recovered from a strap at the scene ties the former Stoughton police officer to her death. The Read more…
Eight days after Sandra Birchmore’s death, an iPhone linked to Matthew Farwell was used to search whether consent could be revoked in Massachusetts. A second search asked whether Cellebrite could recover deleted messages. Prosecutors showed Read more…
Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s reported prison words about Ken Urker have resurfaced after his death, while a separate online campaign is challenging the accepted story of Dee Dee Blanchard’s treatment of her daughter. Recordings reported to Read more…
Sandra Birchmore’s family was told her death was self-inflicted. Years later, Matthew Farwell faced federal charges accusing him of killing her and staging the scene. A federal prosecution filing says a state lab found male Read more…
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…