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The system around Sandra Birchmore was broken long before she was found hanged in her Canton apartment. In the fourth installment of our five-part series on the death of Sandra Birchmore, Katie pulls back the curtain on the Stoughton Police Explorers program, which first brought Sandra in at 12 years-old. Stoughton Deputy Chief Robert Devine ran it while blurring boundaries with teen girls, and twins Matthew and William Farwell were shaped from “model” cadets to officers who later used their power to exploit Sandra. As Katie connects years of red flags, missed complaints, and a department that kept promoting the same men around vulnerable kids, she ties that culture directly to Sandra’s death…and to the moment it finally snapped into focus, when internal affairs blew the lid off the case and former Officer Matthew Farwell landed in handcuffs.

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A summer night of drinking in small-town Kentucky ended with 38-year-old Amber Spradlin sitting dead on a basement couch, her throat slashed, blood scrubbed from sinks and drains, and the home’s security system mysteriously destroyed, leaving a dentist, his son, and their friend now facing charges in a case built on missing footage and slow-moving DNA results. Hours and states away, Katie investigates a late-night first date in Houston that ended just as brutally, when a Porsche took a dark curve too fast and sent 33-year-old Joe McMullins flying thirty feet outside a donut shop. His killer was found to have four times the legal limit of alcohol in her system. Kristina Chambers said her Christian Louboutin heels caused her to lose control, but did the jury buy it?

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After Sandra Birchmore’s death was stamped “suicide” and pushed aside, a very different story had already started to surface. In Part 3 of our five-part special series, Katie digs into Chief Donna McNamara’s internal probe, where recovered phone data and more than 32,000 text messages exposed years of grooming and statutory SA by Officer Matthew Farwell, his twin brother William, and their mentor Robert Devine, even as all three quietly resigned. Katie then follows how Sandra’s family’s lawsuit, a growing “Justice for Sandra” movement, and a parallel federal investigation kept the pressure on. Now, Farwell has been handed a new charge alongside murdering a witness or victim: causing the death of an unborn child.

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A phone was dead; a delivery driver was lost; a town official reached for a gun. Today’s first case follows 24-year-old DoorDash driver Alpha Barry, a recent immigrant from Guinea whose late-night delivery run to a quiet New York cul-de-sac ended with a highway superintendent striding out of his house, firing warning shots, and then shooting Alpha in the back as he tried to drive away. The encounter was captured on a Ring camera, nearly erased, and is now at the center of an attempted-murder case. Then, Katie looks into a case coming from Northern Ireland, where knighted politician Sir Jeffrey Donaldson once walked the marble halls of power, only to be dragged into court decades later on allegations of rape and indecent assault, while his wife stands accused of helping him.

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In Part 2 of our five-part investigation into Sandra Birchmore’s death, Katie stays in the same Massachusetts town shaken by the Karen Read saga, revisiting the night 23-year-old, pregnant Sandra was found hanged in her Canton apartment and quickly ruled a suicide. Did police miss crucial evidence? Katie digs into tips about a Stoughton officer who “didn’t want the baby,” the hooded man caught on camera entering Sandra’s building minutes before she likely died, and the broken flamingo necklace her family later found on the bedroom floor. As she retraces how State Police brushed off red flags, dropped a DNA warrant, and accepted former Officer Matthew Farwell’s shifting story, Katie also uncovers a wider pattern of alleged abuse inside the department, and how Sandra’s family’s fight for answers ended with Farwell in federal custody, now charged with her murder.

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Katie unpacks two cases that expose the cracks in America’s justice system. First, a heartbreaking story from Wisconsin: 29-year-old Lauren Spors, long battling severe mental illness, is accused of murdering her mother after years of pleas for help went unanswered. Her family’s decade-long struggle to get her treatment reveals how systemic failures can turn tragedy into horror. Then, Katie dives into the decades-old Georgia case of former police officer Michael Chapel, convicted of a 1993 murder he swears he didn’t commit. Now, new evidence and a shocking witness confession could finally set him free after thirty years behind bars.

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In the same Massachusetts town rocked by the Karen Read case, 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore was found hanged in her Canton apartment in 2021. Sandra was pregnant and alone, and her death was quickly ruled a suicide, despite her family’s belief that she’d been groomed for years by Stoughton officer Matthew Farwell, who first “mentored” her in a police youth program when she was just 12. In this episode, Katie unpacks Sandra’s troubled childhood, her secret relationship with Farwell, and the threatening messages that preceded her death, revealing a darker picture of small-town policing: alleged statutory rape, buried complaints, and a department accused of closing ranks around one of its own. With Farwell in federal custody, Katie revisits the night she died, the evidence that never added up, and how her family, a podcast, and viral social posts dragged her “suicide” back into the spotlight… and onto the FBI’s radar.

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In rural Kentucky, 10-year-old Jayden Spicer was reported missing from his bed and his mother tearfully begged for his safe return, until two YouTubers, livestreaming their search in the woods, uncovered a bag of a little boy’s clothes hidden under plastic, forcing a shattering confession that Jayden was dead and buried miles away. Then, Katie covers a case in Nebraska, where 42-year-old Jesserae Beck slipped out one night to talk with her ex and never came home. The next morning police found only blood and hair in his house. Jesserae woke up in a strange home, beaten, barely able to move, as Christopher Collins waved a knife, opened a gas line, and talked about killing them both. With a neighborhood one spark away from disaster, SWAT had seconds to decide how to breach the house and whether this standoff would end in a rescue…or an explosion.

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This week on True Crime This Week, host Vanessa Richardson explores the twisted lives of two of history’s most notorious prisoners. First, the story of Charles Manson, the manipulative cult leader whose “Family” turned peace and love into terror. From failed musician to prophet of “Helter Skelter,” Manson’s descent into madness culminated in one of the most chilling murder sprees in American history. Then, meet Robert Stroud, the “Birdman of Alcatraz.” Though immortalized as a gentle animal lover, the real Stroud was a violent killer who spent more than 40 years in solitary confinement. His obsession with canaries and his unlikely fame reveal the strange line between redemption and myth. Two men. Two cells. One shared legacy of infamy.

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With Netflix’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story soaring into the global Top 10, the chilling case that inspired it is back in the headlines. But behind the streaming sensation lies the real tragedy of Bernice Worden, a small-town hardware store owner whose 1957 murder exposed one of history’s most horrifying killers. Tonight, Katie revisits the investigation that began with a missing person report and ended inside Ed Gein’s “house of horrors,” telling the story of multiple women whose lives and legacies were lost in the shadow of his crimes.

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