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Name: Theresa Corley

Location & Date: Franklin / Bellingham, MA | December 1978
Status: Unsolved Homicide
Summary: On the night of December 8, 1978, 19-year-old college student Theresa Corley was seen leaving the Train Stop bar and later visited the Presidential Arms Apartments in Franklin. She was last spotted walking along Route 140 toward her home in Bellingham. Three days later, her body was found in a ravine off Interstate 495. The investigation into her sexual assault and strangulation remains open nearly five decades later as advocates push for advanced DNA analysis.

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Location & Date: Canton, MA | February 2021
Status: Active Federal Prosecution
Summary: Twenty-three-year-old Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her Canton apartment on February 4, 2021. Though local authorities initially classified her death as a suicide, an independent review and a subsequent federal probe revealed she had been groomed from age 12 through the Stoughton Police Explorers program. In 2024, federal prosecutors indicted former police officer Matthew Farwell for her murder, alleging he strangled the pregnant 23-year-old and staged the scene.

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Location & Date: Canton, MA | January 2022
Status: Unresolved
Summary: During a blizzard on the morning of January 29, 2022, 16-year Boston Police veteran John O'Keefe was discovered unresponsive outside the Fairview Road home of a fellow officer, having suffered blunt force head trauma and severe hypothermia. State prosecutors charged his girlfriend, Karen Read, alleging she struck him with her SUV and fled. Read’s defense maintains she was framed in a law enforcement cover-up, leading to a deadlocked mistrial and ongoing legal battles in Norfolk County.