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...Boston press has already come under much criticism for its coverage of the burning murder of Evelyn Wagler and the stabbing death of Ludivico Barba. Banner headlines reading "Woman Torched to Death" and "Man Stoned to Death by Youths" on successive days were sensational, especially when compared with the actual circumstances...
...gasoline murder of Wagler on October 2 was a vicious, senseless act, but when police discovered Barba's body near the predominantly black Columbia Point housing project the following day, newspapers jumped the gun in assuming it was another "roving gang" slaying...
...coverage which followed Barba's death threatened to tip the precarious balance in the Roxbury and Dorchester areas. Although on the following day most papers reported that Barba had died of stab wounds, they continued to play up any incidents of interracial conflict which occurred and returned to the Wagler incident for more "in-depth" coverage. Saturday's papers was a battle of one-ups-manship to see which paper could offer the most colorful background story of the Wagler death, including a simulation of Wagler's one block run to the liquor store--minus the flames but with...
...first victim was Evelyn Wagler, 24, a Swiss divorcee who had moved to Boston only five days earlier and was living in a small commune in the city's Roxbury ghetto with another white and four black women. While she was on her way home from a job-hunting trip, her car ran out of gasoline in the center of Roxbury's business district. Returning to it with a two-gallon refill can from a service station, the young woman was forced into a trash-filled backyard along Blue Hill Avenue by six black teenagers, beaten and ordered...
Boston Mayor Kevin White offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the capture of Mrs. Wagler's murderers, and police soon arrested two suspects, aged 15 and 16, in the Barba killing. The mayor made a point of keeping all Boston schools open on Friday, claiming that despite the week's double horror his city "is still the most livable, walkable, decent city in America." But many parents-both white and black-kept their children out of school, fearing that the savage eruption of violence might not yet have run its course...