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Nov 17, 2023 · Charles Stuart claimed he and his pregnant wife were shot by a Black man in 1989, sparking a manhunt that targeted Black men in Boston. His brother revealed he helped him stage the crime for insurance money, and he later killed himself.
- Elisabeth Ford
- By 1989, the year Carol was killed, the Stuarts had been married for four years. They lived comfortably in Reading, a suburb outside of Boston, acc...
- On October 23, 1989, Charles cried to a Massachusetts State Police dispatcher: “My wife’s been shot. I’ve been shot,’’ according to Boston.com, cit...
- As the manhunt for Carol's killer took root in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, police arrested Alan Swanson, a Black homeless man squattin...
- Aside from his criminal history, Bennett matched Charles' description of his wife's alleged killer, being roughly the same age and height, along wi...
- The same night his brother told police the truth about what happened to his wife, Charles drove his car to the Tobin Bridge, where he jumped from a...
Nov 13, 2009 · Charles Stuart claimed he and his pregnant wife were shot by a Black man in 1989 Boston, but his brother exposed his plot. Learn how Stuart planned the killing, how police arrested an innocent man, and how Stuart committed suicide.
Carol Ann Stuart (née DiMaiti; March 26, 1959 - October 23, 1989) was murdered by her husband, Charles Michael "Chuck" Stuart Jr. (December 18, 1959 – January 4, 1990). Charles Stuart claimed that a black man had carjacked their car in Boston and shot both his pregnant wife and himself.
Dec 4, 2023 · The series explores the 1989 murder of Carol Stuart and the false accusation of a Black man, William Bennett, by her husband Charles, who then committed suicide. It examines the role of race, media, and justice in the aftermath of the notorious crime.
Dec 5, 2023 · Here's what happened to Charles Stuart after he called in about his wife's murder and framed Willie Bennett.
Carol DiMaiti Stuart, 30, was shot in the head in Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood shortly after she and her husband of four years, Charles Stuart, left a birthing class on Oct. 23, 1989.
Jan 18, 2024 · From the author of Above Suspicion comes Deadly Greed, the horrifying true story of the Stuart murder case. Joe Sharkey tells the terrible story of how Charles Stuart murdered his wife own and unborn child—and framed a Black man in 1980s Boston.
