Episode Five | Carol & Christopher Di Maiti Stuart: The Boston Murder Hoax, Boston Massachusetts

On the evening of October 23, 1989, Boston was rocked by one of the most notorious and damaging crimes in the city's history. The murder of Carol Stuart was tragic and shocking. She was 7 1/2 months pregnant with her first baby; she was murdered after leaving a birthing class at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. The case was highly-publicized, emotionally-charged, and sensationalized by Boston media and across the country. The crime was captured on an early version of reality television. It scarred the city for life. The police tore through Boston's neighborhoods looking for a "Black man with a raspy voice wearing a black tracksuit". The man they were looking for didn't exist. It was all a hoax. Marky Mark even wrote a song about it....

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch - Wildside, he raps about the Stuart case

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SOURCES

Charles Stuart: Boston Murder Hoax

Time Magazine, Presumed Innocent http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,153650,00.html

Legacy of Racist Policing

https://medium.com/houstonmarshall/bostons-legacy-of-racist-policing-media-coverage-of-crime-30-years-after-chuck-stuart-b64ebfd7928

Civil Suit Is Filed in Boston Murder Case : Courts: Carol Stuart’s family wants to bar her husband’s heirs from inheriting any of her estate. They claim ‘public policy’ prevents profiting from her death https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-10-vw-11239-story.html

WBUR Delores Handy on 20th anniversary of Carol Stuart’s murder

https://www.wbur.org/news/2009/10/23/charles-stuart-anniversary

Chicago Tribune: A Glimpse into the Stuart Murder Hoax

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-01-21-9001060419-story.html

New York Times: A Boston Tragedy - The Stuart Case, A Special Case: Motive Remains a Mystery In Deaths That Haunt a City

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/15/us/boston-tragedy-stuart-case-special-case-motive-remains-mystery-deaths-that-haunt.html

The Stuart Family Knew it Was a Hoax

https://apnews.com/article/264c388da32bab45d3896001f7eaddb8

Theories and Insurance Policies

https://www.wbur.org/news/2009/10/23/charles-stuart-anniversary

Carol DiMaiti’s BC Degree

https://newspapers.bc.edu/?a=d&d=bcbiweekly19900315-01.2.5&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------

Charles Stuart https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/stuart-charles.htm

Mass Transit

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2019/09/26/new-census-data-suggests-growing-transit-use-statewide-but-not-in-boston-and-cambridge/

Boston Today

https://www.boston.gov/sites/default/files/file/document_files/2017/03/go_boston_2030_-_3_boston_today_spreads.pdf

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Boston Crime Stats

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/massachusetts/articles/2020-01-01/homicides-and-other-violent-crimes-down-in-boston-in-2019#:~:text=There%20were%2038%20homicides%20in,from%20251%20the%20previous%20year.

WCVB TV 5 - Stuart Report

https://www.wcvb.com/article/notorious-boston-charles-stuart-murder-case/29563533#

Commonwealth magazine - Carol Di Maiti

https://commonwealthmagazine.org/tag/carol-dimati/

New York Times - A Boston Tragedy: The Stuart Case - A Special Case; Motive Remains A Mystery In Deaths That Haunt A City

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/15/us/boston-tragedy-stuart-case-special-case-motive-remains-mystery-deaths-that-haunt.html

Harvard. Edu - Forgotten victim

https://archive.vn/20020704134400/http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/~perspy/old/issues/2000/retro/forgotten_victim.html

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Seattle Times - `If There Was A Fault To Carol, It Was That She Was Gullible'

https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19900126&slug=1052732

Union Leader = The Murder and Hoax That Made Boston’s Black Community A Target

https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/the-murder-and-hoax-that-made-bostons-black-community-a-target-30-years-ago/article_82fd5c1f-af04-5337-a3dc-55a5aa8a056f.html

Carol Di Maiti Stuart Foundation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1990/01/31/beauty-from-the-boston-tragedy/81a76c4e-4682-43f7-8b0f-65d2429f799e/

Lynn Item - Stuart Case, 30 Years Later

https://www.itemlive.com/2019/10/25/the-pain-remains-30-years-after-the-carol-dimaiti-stuart-murder-copy/

Evelyn DiMaiti died in 2006

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=evelyn-f-dimaiti&pid=16382215&fhid=4333

AP News - Carol Stuart: A ‘Little Cinderella’ Who Met Her Dark Prince

https://apnews.com/article/772968700956f75f1cb2509c88ee1fd5

Rescue 911

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkkzScZgzzQ

Crossfire on CNN - Embarrassing display of white Boston

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lafPBnWQFBM

Washington Post - Black community reacts to Stuart shooting

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/01/04/they-were-treated-like-animals-murder-hoax-that-made-bostons-black-community-target/

Charles Stuart Funeral

https://apnews.com/article/ec31a0b42374a80b9e9bdf9da0a21a3a

*people still love their family, despite being a killer

Wiki page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stuart_(murderer)

Murder In Boston By Ken Englade

https://archive.org/details/murderinboston00engl/mode/2up

Boston.com - Racist Boston

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2014/10/22/the-charles-stuart-murders-and-the-racist-branding-boston-just-cant-seem-to-shake

Murderpedia

https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/stuart-charles.htm

Marky Mark - Wildside

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2q_b5rhvo

Legacy of Racist Policing

https://medium.com/houstonmarshall/bostons-legacy-of-racist-policing-media-coverage-of-crime-30-years-after-chuck-stuart-b64ebfd7928

New York Times - Gun in Stuart Murder Found

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/10/us/gun-that-may-be-stuart-s-is-found.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

Nashua Telegraph - Suicide note

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19930201&id=u2dKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=35MMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3691,36049

Washington Post - Victim to Suspect

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/01/05/victim-to-suspect-to-suicide/d8cb73bd-b43c-4d29-a1c3-6dfacb1820d6/

Chicago Trib Insurance records sought

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-01-07-9001020457-story.html

Gun Found linked to Stuart case

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-01-10-9001030209-story.html#:~:text=38%2Dcalib

er%20snub%2Dnose%20revolver,as%20long%20as%2010%20years.

New York Times - Matthew Stuart indicted

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/27/us/charles-stuart-s-brother-indicted-in-murder-case.html

Christopher Stuart

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/11/10/Baby-of-couple-shot-by-robber-dies/7127626677200/