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Both sides in the Matthew Farwell federal trial want the same witness: the Massachusetts medical examiner who ruled Sandra Birchmore's death a suicide in 2021, then withdrew it in April 2026. Prosecutors say she'll testify to a fractured hyoid bone and bleeding in a neck muscle, injuries more common in homicides, and explain why she wrote suicide anyway. Still, a second-opin...

The strongest thing Matthew Farwell has going for him is five years of the state of Massachusetts agreeing with him. The medical examiner ruled Sandra Birchmore's death a suicide in May 2021. She changed it to undetermined on April 30, 2026, after federal prosecutors charged Farwell with strangling Sandra in her Canton apartment and staging the scene. Her neck is the fight: ...

Weeks before Ken Urker died, claims circulated online that he was done with Gypsy Rose Blanchard and about to fight for full custody of their daughter Aurora. On October 1, 2026, his 34th birthday, Gypsy's half-brother and sister-in-law went to his Raceland home after he missed work and stopped answering. According to the incident report, a man with them climbed in through a...

Sandra Birchmore’s paternity evidence does not fit neatly into either side’s story. DNA testing excludes Matthew Farwell as the biological father of her unborn child, yet prosecutors say Birchmore told him the baby was his and that messages from the period show he believed her. That distinction is now central to the government’s motive theory.

Farwell, a former Stought...

Christa Pike’s failed execution now has one detail that is almost impossible to separate from the rest of the story: according to her attorneys, Pike tried to help the IV team find a usable vein while Tennessee was attempting to carry out her death sentence. Two doses of pentobarbital followed, but Pike remained alive and was transported to a hospital.

Her legal team s...