The mayor's news lands with a community still trying to make peace with this case; a surprise figure appeared, a man the globe team had been chasing for a long time.

Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning

Long Overdure

On October 23, 1989, Charles Stuart places a frantic 911 call reporting that he and his pregnant wife, a white couple, have been shot by a Black man; exploring the toll the case has on the families involved and on Boston race relations.

Thirty-four years later, many reporters continue to drag the sins of their Stuart coverage around in one form or another.

More than 30 years later, Boston Globe investigative reporters unearth secret grand jury files and never-before-released recordings.

Everything is flipped on its head when one morning a man walks to the edge of the Tobin Bridge and steps off.

The Stuarts are pretty, popular and on the cusp of starting a family.

The never-released police interrogation tapes and meeting the suspect known as Wild Bill.

Two months after the murder, Chuck commits suicide and revelations emerge from his brother; troubling errors in the police investigation also come to light and the Black community responds in anger.

Reckoning

After evidence against their first suspect falls apart, the Boston Police Department target a second suspect and hold him on an unrelated charge; newspapers vie to tell Chuck's story as media and police ignore issues in his version of events.

Rampage

The shooting of a white couple at the hands of an alleged Black assailant makes headlines and Boston's facade as a progressive city begins to slip as its unsavory legacy of racial violence and segregation again comes to the fore; tensions escalate as police descend upon the Black community, arresting their first suspect - a Black man in Mission Hill whose possession of an Adidas tracksuit puts him in their crosshairs.

Roots

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