Carol DiMaiti Stuart, 30, was shot in the head in Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood shortly after she and her husband of four years, Charles Stuart, left a birthing class on Oct. 23, 1989.

and left Charles for dead after a robbery. The ensuing manhunt for Carol's killer put Boston's Black community in public's and the police's crosshairs. Meanwhile, Stuart's family and friends ...

In the intervening months, a manhunt had resulted in the police stopping, searching and harassing large numbers of Black men in Boston, one of whom they even arrested. Charles Stuart identified ...

Boston police commissioner Michael Cox ... open image in gallery Matthew Stuart, brother of Charles Stuart, gestures toward members of the media outside his family's home in Revere, Mass., ...

The story made national news at the time, with Carol, a pregnant newlywed, seemingly attacked while in the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury, while out with her husband, Charles "Chuck" Stuart.

Carol’s husband, Charles Stuart, told police that he and his wife were robbed in Boston’s Mission Hill neighborhood as they were leaving a birthing class, according to The Boston Globe.

In 1989, Boston police officers received a 911 call from Charles “Chuck” Stuart, informing police that he and his wife, Carol, who was pregnant at the time, had been shot during an attempted ...

When Charles Stuart lied and said a Black man killed his pregnant wife in October 1989, Ray Flynn believed him. So did virtually every white person in Greater Boston. That was a mistake.

More than 34 years after Charles Stuart’s murderous hoax blaming the shooting death of his pregnant wife on a Black man triggered a massive manhunt in Boston’s Black community, Mayor Michelle ...