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As the docuseries details, on Oct. 23, 1989, Charles Stuart called 911 and said that he and his pregnant wife Carol had been shot after attending a childbirth class at Boston’s Brigham and...
The hunt lasted until Charles' younger brother, Matthew, confessed that Carol was killed by Charles to collect her life insurance payout. Soon afterward, Charles committed suicide. The shooting occurred in Boston's predominantly black Mission Hill neighborhood.
Oct 23, 2019 · Hours after his brother went to police, in January 1990, Charles Stuart committed suicide. He leaped to his death from the Tobin Bridge in Chelsea. Massachusetts' most notorious crimes. The...
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Nov 17, 2023 · In the early hours of October 24, Carol succumbed to her injuries. Her baby was delivered via Cesarean section, but didn’t make it passed day 17 of his life. Her husband’s claim that an unidentified Black man attacked them was the start of a furious manhunt to find the suspect.
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- 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...
Dec 4, 2023 · Courtesy of HBO. On Oct. 23, 1989, a man named Charles Stuart called 911 and told a dispatcher that he and his pregnant wife, Carol, had been carjacked, robbed, and shot in the Mission Hill ...
Dec 22, 2023 · Charles Stuart committed suicide by jumping off the Tobin Bridge. Wu formally issued an apology to Alan Swanson and Willie Bennett, two Black men who were wrongfully implicated in connection...
How we made the “Murder in Boston” podcast. In the new podcast, ‘Murder in Boston: The untold story of the Charles and Carol Stuart shooting,’ host and columnist Adrian Walker, along with a team of award-winning reporters, uncover explosive new findings and reveal a conspiracy that was bigger than anyone knew. Go behind the scenes to ...
