The bone in Sandra Birchmore’s neck came out of a jar in 2024, after the FBI took over her case, and on November 2nd Matthew Farwell’s lawyers called a woman who studies that bone for a living. Dr. Heather Garvin is a forensic anthropologist from Iowa who saw Sandra’s hyoid only in photographs. She told the jury what a broken hyoid can and can’t show, and the prosecution asked her to find one case like Sandra’s in her own studies. Before her, Dr. William Ralston, Kentucky’s chief medical examiner, described the government’s expert, Dr. William Smock, as someone whose only autopsy work for his office was in the 1980s, as a tech. After her, a forensic science professor from Maine said the photo of the mark on Sandra’s chest was taken with a lens not suited to forensic work. Closings are Friday, November 6th. Farwell faces life if convicted.

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