A former Massachusetts police detective is being tried on charges that he killed a pregnant woman to hide that he had begun sexually abusing her when she was 15. Matthew Farwell is accused of strangling Sandra Birchmore in 2021. An initial police investigation quickly concluded that Birchmore's death was a suicide. But the FBI began looking into the case two years later. Security camera footage places Farwell at Birchmore's home the night she died. Investigators recovered 40,000 texts between the two. Farwell's lawyers acknowledge that the married detective had an affair with Birchmore but say he did not kill her.
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People gather at a memorial in Erie, Pa., Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026, outside the home where authorities say a gunman killed several people before killing himself on Oct. 9. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
Georgia police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide in a rural home that left five people dead, including the shooter. Officials say the victims were adult family members of the shooter, who died by suicide. The incident occurred late Friday night on the outskirts of Douglas, a small city southeast of Atlanta. Douglas Police Chief Brannen Pruette confirmed the details during a Saturday news conference. Officers responded to an emergency call made by one of the victims shortly after 11 p.m. A woman was found alive but later died at the hospital, raising the death toll to five. Police have not released further information.
FILE - Kristin Bride, right, mother of 16-year-old Carson Bride, who died by suicide after being cyber-bullied on an anonymous app on Snapchat, is joined by Amy Neville, left, mother of 14-year-old Alexander Neville, who died from fentanyl poisoning after being deceived by a drug dealer operating on Snapchat, during a Social Media Victims Remembrance Day memorial on Capitol Hill, June 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)
Two people are dead after an apparent murder-suicide in Somerset County.
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