It's really great that Sandra Birchmore got justice today when Matthew Farwell was convicted of murdering her. But the bigger story is that these law enforcement officials all actively provided cover for him and allowed the predator to roam free for 3.5 years. In any other line of work they would all be fired and never work again. Never let them forget the stain of Sandra Birchmore. Wherever they go, remind them. Point them out, and let the world know that these are the men who provided cover for a convicted child raping murderer, simply because he was a cop. Cops are allowed to murder in Norfolk County.
Nobody ever talks about this, but the reason you have to go to college is A, because Griggs v. Duke Power Company made it illegal for presumptive employers to IQ test, and B, inner city High-Schools basically aren't allowed to fail a student as long as they physically show up.
So you end up in this trap where a High-School diploma that you worked very hard for means nothing, because a kid who did coloring books and addition and subtraction got a paper saying he has the same qualification. Ok, then just give me an intelligence test, oh wait you cant, thats also illegal because it causes "disparate impact". So now the only proxy for basically literacy and ~105~ IQ is a 4 year meaningless degree that costs 10s of thousands of dollars.
But wait, now they hand those out to anyone, (1/4 of 4yr grads have an IQ of or below 95), so now you need a Master's, or specialty training, or a million other bullshit things. So you get them, but wait, a diploma mill in Hyderabad cranked out 100M guys who also have a Master's on paper, and will work for 1/3 the price, so now you dont have a job. Ok, ill work construction, but wait, you dont live in a State with strong Unions, so any non-specialized construction work is done by slaves from Guatemala, so you decide to stay home and take Percocet instead.
Awesome system we've built.
Sadly, I woke up to some heartbreaking news this morning here in Baton Rouge , Louisiana. Someone broke into my van overnight, shattered two windows, stole a lawnmower, and ransacked everything inside. Itโs honestly heartbreaking and deflating, especially when youโre simply trying to do good and make a difference. I canโt understand why someone would do something like this. Iโve contacted the police, and Iโm currently waiting for them to arrive and process the van for fingerprints. Unfortunately, this means I wonโt be able to attend the Louisiana Book Festival today as planned. I was really looking forward to meeting everyone and sharing my books, but right now, Iโm just trying to process everything that happened.
AUSTIN WOMAN with 30 criminal cases drove through two fences to escape police, then a week later evaded again and crashed into a car at MLK, putting the other driver in the hospital.
It was her third police chase in five weeks. Three months earlier, DA Jose Garza's office had rejected or dismissed most of her felony theft cases and gave her 70 days in county jail. She was stealing again 16 days later.
Bodesha Garner has 30 criminal cases in Travis County. 27 of them are felonies.
In May 2025, an officer found her stalled in a left-turn lane on William Cannon with a flat tire. She told him she'd taken a hit of crack 30 minutes earlier, then pulled the glass pipe out of her pocket to show him. She failed the sobriety test, but County Attorney Delia Garza declined to prosecute the DWI.
Last fall she picked up four felony theft cases. This spring police say she was stealing purses at The Domain, which added three more felony thefts, two of them for $2,500 or more. One came with a court order to stay 200 yards away from Neiman Marcus.
On July 17, DA Jose Garza's office cleared most of it at once. It rejected all three 2026 theft cases and dismissed one from 2025. It rolled three more into a single guilty plea that was punished as a misdemeanor, with 70 days in county jail. A few weeks later it dismissed a stolen-car case and a crack possession case.
16 days after the plea deal, police say she was stealing again. She now faces five new felony thefts, two for organized retail theft, plus another DWI.
In September, officers tried to pull her over and she took off. In October they found her near a North Austin hotel, and she drove through two fences to get away. A week later she ran again, and this time she hit someone.
She has nine open felonies. None has been indicted. In more than a decade, her longest sentence has been 70 days.