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In 1989 Charles Stuart killed his wife in what he claimed was a carjacking by a Black man. A series about that murder and the police investigation that followed is more than another true-crime story.
This is the insidious nature of racism. It corroded the essence of those of us who think of ourselves as good people but who nonetheless unwittingly bought into the Stuart narrative.
Get transcripts, show notes, and more from episode 3 of "Murder in Boston."
Boston Globe columnist and associate editor Adrian Walker has spent the last two years revisiting the 34-year-old Stuart family murder case that exploded out of Boston’s newsrooms late in the evening of Oct. 23,1989 and kept many among the region’s populace intrigued until its dramatic denouement two months later atop a bridge over the Mystic River and in the waters below.
By revisiting a 1989 homicide, director Jason Hehir tackles the city's racism