BOSTON — A Massachusetts cop allegedly “lulled” Sandra Birchmore into a false sense of safety before killing her to cover up their affair, a prosecutor claimed as a jury was shown her final text messages.
When an ecstatic Birchmore, 23, texted her then-Stoughton cop beau Matthew Farwell she was pregnant, he viciously responded, “You are truly the worst person on the face of Earth,” prosecutor Torey Cummings alleged during opening statements at the start of Farwell’s federal trial Friday.
But a married Farwell — who allegedly began sexually abusing Birchmore when she was just 15 — made “a complete 180” in the days leading up to Birchmore’s Feb. 1, 2021, murder, no longer acting angry toward her, the prosecutor claimed.
“He lulled her into feeling safe so that he could kill her,” Cummings said.
Farwell, wearing a grey suit, sat in court looking straight ahead.
Farwell also asked Birchmore for a key to her apartment and even scoped out her closet and bathroom — a moment which Birchmore texted a friend on Jan. 24, 2021, was “weird” — nine days before the killing, the prosecutor told the jury.
Then the evening of the alleged murder, Farwell texted Birchmore at 9:07, “Are you still up. Ok to come by for a second.”
“Yeah you can come say hi. You ok? Doors open when you get here,” Birchmore responded at 9:10 p.m.
Farwell, moments later at 9:14 p.m., was seen on surveillance cameras entering Birchmore’s Canton apartment building wearing a blue mask — despite being outspokenly...
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