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From the beginning there were questions about his story, but few would have believed that Stuart would shoot his wife in the head at point-blank range, then turn the gun on himself. The tape recording of his anguished ten-minute call to 911 from his Toyota Cressida, as his wife lay dying beside him, etched the crime in Boston's consciousness. "My wife's been shot. I've been shot," Stuart cried as a police dispatcher tried to keep him on the line long enough to determine his location. But Stuart gave no clues. He moaned...
...police finally found Stuart by following the sound of squad-car sirens audible over his open phone line. They arrived too late to save Carol Stuart, 30. Her son Christopher was delivered by Cesarean section but lived for only 17 days. Hospitalized for more than a month, Stuart did not attend his wife's funeral. Instead, he wrote a farewell letter to her that was read at the service: "I will never again know the feeling of your hand in mine, but I will always feel you. I miss you, and I love...
According to Stuart, the prosperous couple -- he managed a fashionable fur store, she was a lawyer -- were accosted as they left the hospital by a black man armed with a .38-cal. snub-nosed revolver. The robber, Stuart claimed, ordered him to drive to an isolated section of the racially mixed Mission Hill district, where he shot and robbed them. Police mounted an intense search for the killer in Mission Hill and the predominantly black Roxbury neighborhood. Black community leaders in Mission Hill complained that police were indiscriminately stopping and frisking 200 black men a day. With little evidence...
Then last week Stuart's younger brother Matthew, 23, told police that the day before the murder, Charles arranged to meet him after the childbirth class. When Matthew arrived for the rendezvous, Charles tossed a bag through his open car window to his brother and sped off. Later Matthew went out to the Pines River in Revere, outside Boston, and tossed the bag into the water. Last week divers recovered Carol Stuart's Gucci bag, wallet and makeup kit from the river. Matthew also turned over to the police Carol's diamond engagement ring, which supposedly had been stolen...
...case. The Rev. Charles Stith, a prominent leader in the black community, accused local news media of "overkill" that whipped up racial tensions with biased accounts of "the worst of what black people are supposed to be." Elisa demanded an apology from Mayor Raymond Flynn, who had earlier called Stuart a hero. The mayor had already visited Bennett's mother to deliver an apology. Said he: "I've been on this earth 50 years, and I've read a lot of suspense stories, but I've not heard anything as bizarre and troubling as this...