Episode Five | Carol & Christopher Di Maiti Stuart: The Boston Murder Hoax, Boston Massachusetts
- Anngelle Wood
- Nov 25, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 10, 2024
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
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
Chicago Tribune: A Glimpse into the Stuart Murder Hoax
New York Times: A Boston Tragedy - The Stuart Case, A Special Case: Motive Remains a Mystery In Deaths That Haunt a City
The Stuart Family Knew it Was a Hoax
Theories and Insurance Policies
Carol DiMaiti’s BC Degree
Charles Stuart https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/stuart-charles.htm
Mass Transit
Boston Today
Boston Crime Stats https://www.bu.edu/library/files/2011/05/Boston-Crime-Statistics1.pdf
Boston Crime Stats
WCVB TV 5 - Stuart Report
Commonwealth magazine - Carol Di Maiti
New York Times - A Boston Tragedy: The Stuart Case - A Special Case; Motive Remains A Mystery In Deaths That Haunt A City
Harvard. Edu - Forgotten victim
Charles Stuart Case Bibliography After the Boston Killing https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/13419/CharlesStuartBib.pdf?sequence=5&isAllowed=y
Seattle Times - `If There Was A Fault To Carol, It Was That She Was Gullible'
Union Leader = The Murder and Hoax That Made Boston’s Black Community A Target
Carol Di Maiti Stuart Foundation
Lynn Item - Stuart Case, 30 Years Later
Evelyn DiMaiti died in 2006
AP News - Carol Stuart: A ‘Little Cinderella’ Who Met Her Dark Prince
https://apnews.com/article/772968700956f75f1cb2509c88ee1fd5
Rescue 911
Crossfire on CNN - Embarrassing display of white Boston
Washington Post - Black community reacts to Stuart shooting
Charles Stuart Funeral
*people still love their family, despite being a killer
Wiki page
Murder In Boston By Ken Englade
Boston.com - Racist Boston
Murderpedia
Marky Mark - Wildside
Legacy of Racist Policing
New York Times - Gun in Stuart Murder Found
Nashua Telegraph - Suicide note
Washington Post - Victim to Suspect
Chicago Trib Insurance records sought
Gun Found linked to Stuart case
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New York Times - Matthew Stuart indicted
Christopher Stuart
