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Matthew Farwell Murders Sandra Birchmore

Matthew Farwell is an accused killer from Massachusetts who has been charged with the murder of Sandra Birchmore

According to police reports Matthew Farwell is a former police officer at the Stoughton Police Department who began having an affair with Sandra Birchmore when she was just fifteen years old and he was twenty six years old. Reports are indicating that he groomed the teen and would have sex with her at multiple locations including while he was on duty

In 2021 Sandra Birchmore was found dead at her Canton home and the cause of death was listed as a suicide. However there was much speculation surrounding her death. Now it has been revealed that Sandra was pregnant at the time of her death and that Matthew Farwell allegedly killed her to cover up the affair and that he been sexually abusing the woman since she was fifteen years old

It is believed that Matthew Farwell used a duffel bag strap to strangle the woman

Matthew Farwell has been charged with murder and destroying evidence

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A former Massachusetts police officer is in custody and facing charges that he murdered his pregnant mistress to hide their affair — which started when she was underage.

Matthew Farwell, 38, was indicted on charges he killed Sandra Birchmore by strangling her inside her Canton home in 2021, to ensure that their affair stayed secret. Farwell, who resigned from the Stoughton Police Department in 2022, had been an officer with the department as well as an instructor at the Stoughton Police Explorers Academy, where he met the victim.

According to a federal indictment, investigators say that Farwell immediately began grooming Birchmore for a sexual relationship that began when he was 26 and she was 15 years old. At times, according to prosecutors, Farwell would meet Birchmore for sex acts while he was on the clock and supposed to be working as a police officer

Messages between Farwell and the victim refer to sexual violence, but Birchmore was allegedly eager to have a child. Farwell is accused of agreeing to father a child on the condition that Birchmore keep their relationship a secret. But once she was pregnant, Birchmore allegedly told her friends that Farwell became physically violent and described being pushed, shoved and placed in a chokehold.

Investigators say Farwell plotted his mistress’ death, even getting her to give him a key to her home. During a looming blizzard on Feb. 1, while his wife was in labor with their third child, prosecutors say that Farwell wore a mask, used his key to get into her home and strangled her to death with a duffle bag strap. Farwell is accused of then staging the scene to look like a suicide.

The prosecution has asked a judge to hold Farwell behind bars until trial: “There are no conditions of release that will protect the community from a defendant whose conduct reveals such an indifference to human life.”

The indictment also accuses Farwell of attempting to destroy evidence in the case, even instructing Birchmore to delete evidence of their sexual relationship from her phone before her death.

Birchmore’s family has separately filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Farwell and the Stoughton Police Department.

In a statement after the charges were announced, Stoughton Police Chief Donna McNamara said in a statement, “The day after Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her Canton apartment, I ordered a lengthy and aggressive internal affairs investigation, the instructions of which made it clear that no stone should be left unturned. The Stoughton Police Department has supported other agencies and worked with other agencies, including the FBI investigation that today resulted in a murder indictment that concluded that Sandra was killed. The alleged murder of Sandra is a horrific injustice. The allegations against the suspect, a former Stoughton Police Officer, represent the single worst act of not just professional misconduct but indeed human indecency that I have observed in a nearly three-decade career in law enforcement. It has been my life’s work over these past three years to ensure that justice was served. As I have stated previously, Sandra Birchmore received no justice during her life. It is imperative that justice be served in her death, and today’s actions appear to bring our society one step closer to justice.”

If convicted, Farwell faces a potential sentence of life in prison.

https://www.courttv.com/news/former-officer-accused-of-killing-sandra-birchmore-staging-suicide

Ryan Sweatt Murders Destini Decoff

Ryan Sweatt is an alleged killer from Massachusetts who is believed to be responsible for the death of Destini Decoff

According to police Destini Decoff would get out of a vehicle on a roadway in Hopkinton Massachusetts to confront Ryan Sweatt over his aggressive driving.

Ryan Sweatt would take off in his vehicle before pulling a U-turn where he intentionally struck Destini Decoff. The twenty six year old woman was thrown into the air and suffered catastrophic injuries

Ryan Sweatt would take off from the accident scene

Destini Decoff would be rushed to the hospital however days later she would die from her injuries

Ryan Sweatt would be arrested and was initially charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury, operating to endanger and a marked lanes violation. However with the death of Destini more charges are pending

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A Massachusetts woman who got out of her car to confront an angry driver was massacred in the road, succumbing to her injuries after three days on life support.

Destini Decoff, 26, had part of her skull removed to accommodate a brain bleed and was put on a respirator due to two collapsed lungs after she was mowed down in Hopkinton last Thursday, her mother wrote on Facebook.

With a broken rib, shoulder and tibia, along with facial disfigurement that required plastic surgery, Tracy Decoff wrote that her daughter was “literally injured from head to toe.”

Ryan Sweatt of Milford, 36, was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury, operating to endanger and a marked lanes violation after hitting Decoff with his Honda Civic on Route 85 in Hopkinton, the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office wrote in a Friday news release.

Prosecutors said a police officer saw Sweatt speed away from the scene after the 6:30 p.m. accident, CBS reported. When police caught up to him, his windshield was damaged – he allegedly got out of the car screaming, “They’re trying to kill me!”

Sweatt told police that Decoff pulled in front of him and slammed on her brakes as he drove home from work, according to court documents reviewed by the outlet. Then, he said, Decoff and four men got out of their vehicle and swarmed him to threaten him – Sweatt told police one man pulled out a knife.

The District Attorney’s Office did not specify whether Decoff had been driving before she was struck.

Following the District Attorney’s Office announcement, the elder Decoff wrote that Sweatt was “charged with everything he should’ve been.”

In the “apparent road rage incident,” Sweatt “made a U-turn at a high rate of speed and struck the victim in the roadway” after “some of the occupants of [Decoff’s] vehicle, including the victim, exited the car,” the office wrote.

Decoff’s mother wrote that the impact threw her daughter in the air, and that the driver fled the scene before Hopkinton Police caught up to him.

“She was in the car with friends when the car behind them was riding their bumper,” the mother said. “Car pulled over, they got out of the vehicle and that car tried to run them over.”

Brett Martin, a witness who saw the scene from nearby Cornell’s Irish Pub, told CBS that the impact ripped off Decoff’s clothes:

“I saw her midair kind of coming down toward the street,” Martin told CBS. “Her jacket must’ve been 20 feet away from her. However, she got hit, those clothes flew off.”

Martin said he ran over to the scene, grabbed Decoff’s jacket and covered the bloodied woman. He said Sweatt “turned around multiple times, and he could have just kept going” before hitting the woman, CBS reported.

“He chose to turn around,” Martin told the outlet. “He knew what he was doing when he went toward that girl.”

On Friday, a prosecutor said that surveillance footage confirmed Martin’s account, CBS reported.

Last Friday, Decoff’s mother wrote that she “hop[ed] that mf burns directly in hell” with “every ounce of [her] being.”

On Sunday, the grieving mother wrote that her “firstborn child [and] best friend” had passed away.

The Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office could not immediately be reached for comment on whether additional charges would be filed in light of the 26-year-old’s death.

Sweatt has entered a not-guilty plea, according to court records, and is scheduled to appear in Framingham District Court on April 10. His attorney could not immediately be reached for comment.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/massachusetts-road-rage-attack-ends-driver-making-u-turn-mow-down-woman-prosecutors

Ryan Sweatt Charged With Murder

A man accused of intentionally hitting a woman with his car during a road rage incident in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, is scheduled to be arraigned on a new charge Tuesday.

Ryan Sweatt, 36, of Milford, is now being charged with murder, the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office said Monday.

The incident occurred on April 4 on Hayden Rowe Street near Cornell’s Irish Pub, Hopkinton police said.

Destini Decoff, 26, died from her injuries two days later.

Sweatt was originally charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury, operating to endanger and a marked lanes violation in connection with the incident.

He reportedly told police a group of people in a car behind him got out at the intersection to Granite and Hayden Rowe streets and threatened to kill him, with one allegedly pulling out a knife.

The 36-year-old will be arriagned in Framingham District Court.

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/man-in-deadly-hopkinton-road-rage-incident-to-be-arraigned-on-murder-charge/3354219

Shane Curry Murders Neveah Goddard

Shane Curry is an accused killer from Massachusetts who has been charged with the murder of his seventeen year old girlfriend Neveah Goddard (Naveah Goddard)

According to police reports officers were performing a welfare check at a home in Stow Massachusetts and were refused entrance by Shane Curry

After two hours of negotiations Shane Curry would allow the officers into the home where they would find the body of seventeen year old Neveah Goddard (Naveah Goddard)

Apparently Shane Curry would strike Neveah Goddard (Naveah Goddard) with a sword shortly before her death

Shane Curry was taken into custody and so far has been charged with assault and battery on a household or family member and assault and battery causing serious bodily injury. Other charges are pending depending on the results of the autopsy

Shane Curry News

A man faces assault and battery charges after his girlfriend was found dead at a Stow home Friday afternoon, according to authorities.

Shane Curry, 20, was living with Neveah Goddard, his 17-year-old girlfriend at a Great Road home, police said, when officers responded to a wellness check around 4:30 p.m. Friday.

Answering the door, Curry tried to keep the officers from entering the house for about two hours, according to a statement by the Middlesex District Attorney.

Officers were able to eventually get inside the residence, finding Goddard dead.

Deeming the death to be suspicious, officers arrested Curry, charging him with assault and battery on a household or family member and assault and battery causing serious bodily injury.

He was transported to an area hospital for evaluation following the arrest, said the statement.

Curry was arraigned for the charges Monday at the Concord District Court, according to a spokesperson for the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office.

He was held without bail and will be back in court for a dangerousness hearing April 17, the spokesperson said.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will perform an autopsy on Goddard to determine the cause of death.

The Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, Stow police and Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the District Attorney’s Office are investigating.

https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/2024/04/07/stow-man-charged-with-assault-and-battery-in-teen-girlfriends-death/73235327007

Francisco Severo Torres Attempts To Open Plane Door

Francisco Severo Torres is in a whole lot of trouble after he attempted to open a plane door during a flight from Los Angeles to Boston and then attempted to stab a flight attendant multiple times. According to police reports Francisco Severo Torres was a passenger on a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Boston when mid flight he attempted to open up an emergency door.

When Francisco Severo Torres was confronted by a flight attendant he attempted to stab her three times in the neck with a broken spoon. Thankfully other passengers would be able to restrain Francisco Severo Torres and would be held until the flight landed at Boston Logan International Airport.

Francisco Severo Torres has been charged with one count of interference and attempted interference with flight crew members and attendants using a dangerous weapon

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A Massachusetts man was arrested for allegedly attempting to stab a flight attendant in the neck with a broken metal spoon three times during a flight from Los Angeles to Boston on Monday, after attempting to open an emergency exit door, according to the Justice Department.

Francisco Severo Torres, 33, faces one charge of interference and attempted interference with flight crew members and attendants using a dangerous weapon. Torres was arrested at Boston Logan International Airport Monday and will remain detained pending a hearing set for Thursday.

During a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Boston, the flight crew saw an alarm that a door in the plane had been disarmed and, after inspection, a flight attendant saw the door’s locking handle had been pushed out of the fully locked position and an emergency slide arming lever had been disarmed, according to the Justice Department.

A flight attendant who saw Torres near the door went to talk to Torres about the door, according to the department, who asked if there were cameras showing he had tampered with the door.

“According to court documents, the flight attendant then notified the captain that they believed Torres posed a threat to the aircraft and that the captain needed to land the aircraft as soon as possible,” the Justice Department said.

Soon after, Torres allegedly got out of his seat, mouthing something, before thrusting “towards one of the flight attendants in a stabbing motion with a broken metal spoon, hitting the flight attendant on the neck area three times,” the department said.

Torres was then tackled by other passengers on the flight and was immediately taken into custody after the flight landed.

According to a criminal complaint, Torres told investigators he broke a spoon in half a bathroom on the airplane to use as a weapon. He also told law enforcement that he tried to open the emergency door and “had gotten the idea” to jump out of the plane, according to the complaint.

Torres told investigators he was trying to defend himself and tried to stab the flight attendant because he believed they were trying to kill him, the complaint states.

The flight attendant felt the object Torres was holding in his hand “hit him on his shirt collar and tie three times,” according to the complaint.

United Airlines says it has banned Torres from flying on future flights following this incident.

“Thanks to the quick action of our crew and customers, one customer was restrained after becoming a security concern on United flight 2609 from Los Angeles to Boston,” United said in a statement.

United says the flight was able to land safely and without any reported injuries.

“We have zero tolerance for any type of violence on our flights, and this customer will be banned from flying on United pending an investigation. We are cooperating with law enforcement in their investigation,” the statement says.

Unruly passengers continue to be an issue on flights around the country, adding to a host of travel disruptions in recent days ranging from bird strikes, aircraft striking each other on the ground, and episodes of severe turbulence.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/06/us/boston-flight-exit-door-arrest/index.html

Teen Wilmary Mejia Charged In Fatal Boston Stabbing

Wilmary Mejia is a sixteen year old girl from Roxbury Massachusetts who has been charged with murder following a double stabbing in Boston. According to police reports Wilmary Mejia would fatally stab a twenty one year old woman and injure a seventeen year old girl in Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Officers are attempting to figure out the motive behind the double stabbing. This alleged teen killer was arrested and faces a variety of charges including murder.

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A 16-year-old girl is scheduled to face multiple charges, including murder, in connection with a stabbing in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood that left a woman dead and another teenager injured, according to authorities.

Wilmary Mejia, of Roxbury, is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Boston Municipal Court. Under Massachusetts law, arraignments of juveniles ages 14 to 17 who have been charged with homicide will take place in regular session instead of juvenile session.

Police responded 5 p.m. Saturday to 5 Woodside Ave. in Jamaica Plain, on a report of a person stabbed. Before officers arrived, two people suffering from multiple stab wounds ran to the District 13 police station at 3347 Washington St.

Both victims were transported to separate Boston hospitals. One of the victims, a 21-year-old woman, died of her injuries, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office. The DA’s Office said the second victim, a 17-year-old girl, was seriously wounded in the attack but Boston police said she is expected to survive her injuries.

Police said officers apprehended a juvenile female in the area of Glen Road immediately after the incident. She was taken to an area hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries and was later arrested.

The Boston Police Department is investigating the stabbings. Anyone with information is asked to call homicide detectives at 617-343-4470. Those who wish to remain anonymous can call the Crime Stoppers Tip Line at 1-800-494-8477 or by texting the word “TIP” to 27463.

Police also encouraged people to call the Boston Neighborhood Trauma Team at 617-431-0125 if they need emotional support or wish to talk about the distressing events. The NTT provides free, private support 24/7.

https://www.wcvb.com/article/jamaica-plain-fatal-stabbing-16-year-old-girl-charged-february-13/42854321#