Dispatcher who told Matthew Farwell about call related to Sandra Birchmore to take stand
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The Stoughton police dispatcher who told Matthew Farwell that Sandra Birchmore’s friend had called the department reporting their sexual relations is expected to take the witness stand Tuesday in Farwell’s trial in federal court. James Fitton, who still works for the town but in a different department, is listed among a number of potential witnesses Tuesday including an expert who would testify about how Farwell allegedly began grooming Birchmore, when she was a teenager in a poice Explorers youth program. Meanwhile, an FBI agent who investigated Birchmore’s death remained on the stand for the third day in a row, facing lengthy cross examination Tuesday morning about her jarring testimony. Special Agent Heidi Kelsch has spent hours in court reading aloud text exchanges between Birchmore and Farwell including discussions about a child, her threats to expose their relationship to his wife, and recollections of sexual encounters that began when Birchmore was too young to give consent. Farwell, 40, is on trial on charges that he killed Birchmore and her unborn baby, and staged Birchmore’s death to look like a suicide.
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