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Carol Ann Stuart (née DiMaiti; March 26, 1959 – October 24, 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.
Nov 17, 2023 · A young and affluent Boston couple were just about to welcome their first child in 1989 when the pregnant woman was shot, killing the mom-to-be and eventually, her baby. The murder of Carol DiMaiti Stuart sparked a months-long investigation in which Black men across the city fell under suspicion after a lie told by her husband.
- 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...
Dec 5, 2023 · Charles “Chuck” Stuart died by suicide on January 4, 1990. His suicide note did not have a confession to the murders. Charles Stuart’s brother Matthew confessed to authorities that Charles...
Dec 4, 2023 · 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 neighborhood of...
Nov 13, 2009 · The killing of Carol Stuart, who was pregnant at the time, on October 23, 1989, had touched off a national outrage when Charles Stuart told authorities that the couple had been robbed and...
Dec 22, 2023 · Boston Mayor Michelle Wu formally apologized Wednesday to the families of two black men wrongly implicated decades ago in the death of Carol Stuart and acknowledged the harm caused to the...
Dec 4, 2023 · "Murder in Boston" chronicles how, on the night of Oct. 23, 1989, Charles "Chuck" Stuart falsely claimed that a Black man shot him and killed his pregnant wife Carol in a violent carjacking — leading to an intense manhunt targeting young Black men all over the city.
