It had been a fairly slow summer for the most compelling homicide case in modern Masshole history.
Sure, there had been a few updates.
But that motion was denied.
Which might be interesting in that a civil trial might compel testimony we’d otherwise not get to hear.
But Read is still facing a criminal retrial in January, so her 5th amendment rights are still intact.
So nothing much to talk about there.
I mean, I know the broad strokes.
But Minihane has forgotten more on the subject than I’ll ever know.
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William Farwell was also having sex, investigators say, with Birchmore while on duty.
Matthew Farwells encounter with Birchmore also occurred while he was on duty.
If you’ve spent much time in Massachusetts, the answer is obvious.
Stoughton and Canton are bordering towns.
They’re both in Norfolk County.
Meaning these two investigations were conducted by some of the same people in the Mass.
And overseen by the same District Attorney, Michael Morrissey.
The feds found them.
All 30,709 of them.
And they’re just as grotesque as you’d imagine.
Then testified the technical data she Googled it at 2:27am was “incorrect.”
By someone much bigger, who overpowered her.
Not at the police station.
Not that “Downtown” where they always threaten to take Persons of Interest on cop shows.
Not in the interview room down at the precinct.
But in the parking lot of a school:
You know, just to make it official.
Anyway, all this points to why Massholes were so endlessly fascinated by the Read investigation and subsequent trial.
Because it was all so suspect from the very beginning.
Because at the very least, the people in the public trust were grossly incompetent.
But it seems much more likely they were corrupt and using their official powers to cover for their own.
If that’s you, I disagree with you, but we can interpret the evidence differently.
Because what we’ve all seen with Matthew and William Farwell, Robert Devine, and Joshua Heal isexactlythat.
RIP to Sandra Birchmore and Boston Police officer John O’Keefe.
