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The Norfolk District Attorney’s Office just released a statement following Matthew Farwell’s conviction for killing Sandra Birchmore and her unborn child. Part of the statement reads: “Its ability to prosecute was constrained by the finding of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner that the manner of death was suicide.” It is important to add context. During opening statements in Farwell’s trial, Assistant U.S. Attorney Torey Cummings told the jury that Massachusetts State Police troopers assigned to the Norfolk DA’s Office: “very quickly told others, including the medical examiner, that this was definitively a suicide and there was no foul play. They told the medical examiner, no need to treat this death as suspicious.”