BREAKING NEWS 🚨 🚨 🚨; On August 24th, 2024, Brian Tully and Nick Guarino's State Police Unit "lost" the entire server upon which Sandra Birchmore's laptop data was located within the Norfolk DA's SPDU unit. That "data loss" occured just four days before Farwell's arrest on federal charges. A motion from Farwell's lawyers, related to Nick Guarino admitting to that data loss during a 2026 interview with the FBI, is expected to hit the docket before Monday, October 5th, 2026. Farwell, also, for the first time, consented to a full search of his phone for all data related to Sandra's death. John Fanning, another state trooper working for Tully's unit, told the FBI during formal interrogation that Fanning "told Guarino Farwell only consented to a search of his phone for messages between Sandra and Farwell, and thar they were all deleted," however, now, Fanning tells the FBI Fanning "may have been mistaken." As a result, Farwell's lawyers then provided the US DOJ consent to search Farwell's entire phone, following a question on the record in open court from Chief Judge Denise J. Casper. Judge Casper expects jury selection to begin Tuesday, October 6th, 2026, and opening statements are expected on Friday October 9, 2026. Each side will have 40 minutes for openings. Farwell, alleges the DOJ , killed Sandra on February 1, 2021, and then, over the course of that year, covered up the crime with the help of Tully, Fanning and the rest of Norfolk DA's Michael Morrissey's men. That was until August of 2023, through August of 2024, at which point the FBI exposed the cover up and, on August 28th, 2024, Farwell was federally indicted for Sandra's murder. In the fall of 2025, a new law signed by President Trump (@POTUS) was also used by the DOJ to indict Farwell for the death of Sandra's unborn 8-10 week old baby boy. Farwell was under the impression he was the father of Sandra's baby, at the time, but new DNA testing confirmed the actual father is Jason Pickard (a U.S. Army recruiter from Quincy who knew Matthew Farwell and his brother William). Despite all of that evidence, at the time of Sandra's death both the Canton PD and Tully's state police unit pressured the Massachusetts Medical Examiner's office to determine Sandra died by self harm within 24 hours of Sandra's death (and before the OCME even performed an autopsy). Days later, Fanning --who previously worked as a cop in Stoughton before going on to work for Tully's state police unit-- told Fanning there "were no suspects," there was no "crime," and "this investigation is the last thing [Tully's unit] needed."