Boston mayor apologizes to Black men wrongly accused of killing pregnant woman in 1989
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued an apology to two Black men who were wrongly accused of killing a pregnant white woman nearly 35 years ago.
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued an apology to two Black men who were wrongly accused of killing a pregnant white woman nearly 35 years ago.
BOSTON (AP) - Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued a formal apology Wednesday to two Black men who were wrongly acc...
Alan Swanson and Willie Bennett were wrongly named as suspects in the Oct. 23, 1989, death of Carol Stuart, whose husband, Charles Stuart, had orchestrated her killing
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued a formal apology Wednesday to two Black men who were wrongly accused in a 1989 murder of a white woman, a case that coarsened divisions in a city long split along racial lines and renewed suspicion and anger directed at the police department by the city's Black community.
When the Globe's "Nightmare in Mission Hill" series was released earlier this month, we asked readers to tell us what they remember about the shooting and its aftermath in hopes of better understanding the collective memory of Boston during this time.