What is going on true crime fans? I'm your host Heath and I'm your host Daphne.

And you're listening to Going West. Hello everybody.

Hope you're doing well today. Big shout out and thank you to Danielle, Becky, Megan, and

Caitlin, who all recommended this case for very good reason. Yeah, this is one of those cases that is

going to piss every single one of you guys off.

It is a ton of corruption, a ton of scandal, and it spans for years.

I mean, it is truly heartbreaking and severely angering.

Very well said.

So true.

So without further ado, let's just dive right into this one because we have so much to get into.

And like you just said, Heath, it is infuriating.

All right, guys, this is episode 474 of going west. So let's get into it. The

The Sandra Birchmore's death happened three years ago.

Again, it was ruled a suicide at the time.

Now, a former police officer arrested disturbing allegations against him.

How did we get here? Her own family,

they took it upon themselves to hire a private pathologist who took another look at her death

and decided that no, there were signs that this was a homicide and not a suicide as it was

originally ruled. We know that there was an investigation to sexual misconduct, that they had believed that

this officer, plus some other officers than that Stam Stoughton, the police department, had been

involved sexually with this young woman and during the time that she was a minor.

In February of 2021, a 23-year-old aspiring police officer in Massachusetts was found dead in her apartment under suspicious circumstances.

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