Victim died by murder, says pathologist

STOUGHTON – A prominent pathologist hired by Sandra Birchmore’s family said her death was a homicide, rejecting a state medical examiner’s conclusion that she died by suicide.

Dr. Michael Baden, a former chief medical examiner in New York City, wrote a letter to an attorney for Birchmore’s estate making that argument, according to the Boston Globe. The Enterprise has not independently reviewed the letter.

Birchmore, then 23, was found dead in her Canton apartment on February 4, 2021. She was three months pregnant. Birchmore said the father was Matthew Farwell, one of the Stoughton police officers accused of grooming her for sex starting at age 13.