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
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
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
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
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
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'
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19900126&slug=1052732
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
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
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
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
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
Washington Post - Victim to Suspect
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/