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For years, Sandra Birchmore’s family held vigils outside buildings that didn’t want them there. They held signs at the Stoughton Police Department. They demanded answers from a system that had already decided Sandra did this to herself. Then the FBI came.
On August 28, 2024, agents arrested Matthew Farwell and charged him with killing Sandra to prevent her from exposing his crimes. A superseding indictment added a charge under the Unborn Victims of Violence Act for the death of her unborn baby boy. Farwell has pleaded not guilty. His trial begins October 5, 2026 in Boston federal court.
The defense has tried everything. They moved to dismiss the charges. Denied. They moved to relocate the trial. Denied. They sought bail, presenting Farwell as a war hero. Prosecutors responded with new DNA evidence: Farwell’s genetic material on the strap used to strangle Sandra, his sperm cells in her underwear contradicting his statements. Their filing also revealed that months after Sandra’s death, Farwell allegedly bought a drink for a woman at a bar who woke up naked while he searched her room for his keys.
All three officers connected to Sandra’s exploitation have been permanently barred from law enforcement. The DA who oversaw the initial investigation won’t seek reelection. Sandra’s family has endorsed his potential replacement. The political fallout has been seismic.
Sandra Birchmore was born in 1997. She lost her mother, grandmother, and aunt before turning twenty-three. She worked with children. She was studying nursing. She wanted to be a police officer. She wanted to be a mother. Everything taken from her began with trust. The trial begins in October.
This is Part 5 of a five-part series on the Sandra Birchmore case.
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Eric Faddis — criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor — joins Hidden Killers for an extended session covering three major cases demanding attention. 
In the Kohberger case, defense-retained forensic scientist Brent Turvey is publicly alleging chain of custody deficiencies with the knife sheath — the sole piece of physical evidence carrying Kohberger's DNA — that he says could have been challenged at trial. A new book by former FBI agent Christopher Whitcomb surfaces untested crime scene evidence the FBI lab confirmed wasn't Kohberger's. The defense team has responded by attacking Turvey for speaking while simultaneously preparing a paid conference presentation about the case. Kohberger pled guilty on July 2, 2025, to four counts of first-degree murder and waived all appeal rights. None of the evidence questions can be relitigated. 
In the Reiner case, Nick Reiner's preliminary hearing was pushed to September 15 after the court confirmed autopsy reports on Rob and Michele Reiner remain incomplete over four months after their deaths. Nick faces two counts of first-degree murder with death penalty eligibility. His public defender Kimberly Greene has entered a not guilty plea but has not addressed whether a mental health defense is forthcoming despite Nick's documented history of schizoaffective disorder and a prior conservatorship. 
And in the Tupac Shakur case, Mopreme Shakur filed a wrongful death lawsuit naming Keffe D and John Does 1 through 100, alleging a conspiracy that goes beyond the individuals in the white Cadillac. The lawsuit is built around civil discovery — the power to compel testimony and documents from individuals who have never been subpoenaed. Keffe D's criminal trial is set for August 10, 2026. The complaint cites grand jury transcripts and the Netflix documentary "Sean Combs: The Reckoning." Faddis analyzes the legal implications, the strategic decisions, and the family impact across all three cases.
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This episode is about the machinery. The subpoenas, the indictment, the pretrial legal battles, and the courtroom moments that shaped this case before a single juror was seated.
The prosecution subpoenaed the FBI Lab at Quantico, the Ohio BCI, Apple, Verizon, WhatsApp, Meta, Google, Microsoft, social media platforms, financial institutions, and software companies. They filed motions to compel compliance from tech giants that resisted or delayed. An expert report arrived on April 11  --  its contents undisclosed  --  and triggered a four-day trial continuance that the defense fought hard to block.
On the defense side: a gag order motion filed, then abruptly withdrawn at the hearing without explanation. A conflict of interest with the judge's new staff attorney, waived by both sides. A motion for jurors to physically walk through 932 Cunningham Court and assess entry points for themselves. And the refusal of the prosecution's plea offer  --  which was no negotiation at all: plead guilty as charged, all 11 counts.
Part 4 of our pre-trial series. On May 4, a jury will be asked to weigh everything the prosecution has spent two months building. This is what they'll walk into.
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Mopreme Shakur filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of the estate of Mutulu Shakur, naming Keffe D and up to one hundred unnamed John Doe co-conspirators in the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur. The complaint alleges a conspiracy that extends far beyond the occupants of the white Cadillac that pulled alongside Tupac's car near the Las Vegas Strip on September 7, 1996. 
Keffe D — the only person ever criminally charged in connection with the murder — has spent years putting himself at the scene in interviews, a published memoir, and recorded proffer sessions with law enforcement. He now claims he fabricated those accounts and maintains his innocence. His criminal trial is set for August 10, 2026. The civil suit operates on a separate track with a lower burden of proof, and its real power lies in discovery — the ability to subpoena testimony and documents from individuals who have never been compelled to provide either. 
The lawsuit specifically references grand jury transcripts and the Netflix documentary "Sean Combs: The Reckoning" as sources of evidence pointing to a wider conspiracy, though Sean Combs is not named as a defendant. The John Doe designations leave that door open. The family's previous wrongful death suit, filed by Afeni Shakur against alleged triggerman Orlando Anderson in 1997, was dismissed after Anderson's death. The family now argues that the new evidence makes this a fundamentally different case. 
Eric Faddis analyzes the legal architecture of the suit, the credibility problems created by Keffe D's shifting accounts, and the legal exposure civil discovery creates for anyone whose name has circled this case for decades without ever facing a courtroom.
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His daughter says she carried the lye. His wife's re-autopsy reportedly revealed a possible defensive wound. And an alleged accomplice has reportedly broken years of silence. The case of Donald Dean Studey and Green Hollow keeps getting harder to ignore. 
Lucy Studey-McKiddy alleges her father killed dozens of women over decades in the remote hills near Thurman, Iowa — Fremont County, about forty miles from Omaha — and disposed of them in wells on the family property. The alleged victims were reportedly vulnerable women from bus stops and truck stops near Omaha, women who vanished without anyone coming to look for them. 
Studey had a documented criminal history that included domestic violence and threats to kill family members. His own sister reportedly wrote a hundred-and-sixty-eight-page journal describing alleged killings and said her brother had no human compassion. His wife Charlotte reportedly died from a gunshot wound to the head in 1984 in Omaha. She was five-two. She'd reportedly left him after an argument. The death was ruled self-inflicted for nearly four decades — until a 2023 re-autopsy found stippling on her right arm suggesting a possible defensive wound, reclassified the shot from point-blank to indeterminate range, and changed her manner of death to undetermined. The original crime scene photos and autopsy images are missing from Omaha police files. 
His first wife reportedly died by hanging in 1970 — and Lucy says her father allegedly admitted for decades that he didn't mean to kill her, that he choked her too hard or too long. In 2022, cadaver dogs alerted at four locations across Green Hollow. The FBI drilled a well and left after three days. Lucy says they got the wrong one. 
The Paramount+ documentary My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders reportedly features an alleged accomplice and new witnesses. Green Hollow still has secrets.
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