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Reveal. I'm Al Ledson. Today,
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we're starting the show by going back
1:21
a few decades to a notorious crime
1:23
that holds lessons for today. Lessons
1:26
about race, class, crime, and
1:28
punishment. It's
1:30
October 23, 1989 in Boston, and
1:34
Charles Stewart makes a 911 call
1:36
from his car phone. Chuck
1:49
and Carol Stewart started the night at
1:51
a birthing class. Carol is
1:53
seven months pregnant. Chuck tells
1:56
the dispatcher there was a man with a
1:58
gun, and he forced him to do it. drive
2:00
to an abandoned area in Mission Hill.
2:03
It's not far from the birthing class,
2:05
but it's across an important dividing
2:07
line between white Boston
2:09
and everyone else. Mission
2:12
Hill is a mixed-race neighborhood that
2:14
people from the suburbs avoid. The
2:23
details are fuzzy. The dispatcher needs to
2:25
know exactly where they are, and he
2:27
tries to keep Chuck talking. Chuck
2:30
says it's too dark, no one's around.
2:32
He insists he can't see anything. Police
2:58
fan out to comb the neighborhood. One
3:00
of the first emergency vehicles to arrive is
3:03
carrying a film crew from an old reality
3:05
show called Rescue 911. A newspaper
3:08
photographer finds the scene too,
3:11
almost immediately. This gruesome footage
3:13
is all over the national
3:15
news. After Chuck's stretcher is
3:17
loaded into the ambulance, a police officer
3:19
leans over and speaks with him. It's
3:21
hard to make out, but the
3:31
officer asks, who did this? Chuck
3:34
says, black man. Chuck,
3:38
who is white, tells the cop the shooter was
3:41
wearing a tracksuit with
3:52
stripes on it. He doesn't offer
3:54
much else, but it's enough to cement the
3:56
image of the main suspect. I
4:00
believe he's in San Alfonso's blackmail.
4:03
30 years of age, black running
4:05
suit with a white stripe. Chuck
4:08
and Carol Stewart are rushed to
4:10
the hospital. And right away, the
4:12
city's mayor is treating the shooting
4:14
like a citywide emergency. I've
4:16
asked the commissioner, just I was talking
4:18
a little while ago, I've asked him
4:20
to put every single available detective in
4:23
the city of Austin on this case
4:25
to find out who the people are,
4:27
the person who was responsible for this,
4:29
probably, senseless tragedy. The
4:35
Stewards are not the only people shot in
4:37
Boston that night. But their story
4:39
is the one that captures the attention of
4:42
the police force and the nation for weeks.
4:45
And the two words from Chuck, black man,
4:47
trigger a police dragnet in a
4:49
case that will alter the image
4:51
of Boston forever. It's
4:55
been more than 30 years since the
4:57
Steward shooting and the narrative Boston told
4:59
itself about this case was largely unchanged.
5:02
That is until the Boston Globe
5:04
began investigating. This week,
5:06
we're partnering with the Murder in Boston
5:09
podcast to bring you a story that
5:11
exposed truths about race and crime that
5:13
few white people in power wanted to
5:16
confront. A note that
5:18
this week's show contains descriptions of
5:20
violence and suicide and may not
5:22
be appropriate for all listeners. Adrian
5:25
Walker, a columnist at the Boston Globe
5:27
and host of the Murder in Boston
5:29
podcast, takes it from here. It
5:33
was the ultimate urban nightmare. An
5:36
innocent white couple with a baby on the
5:38
way, shot in the heart
5:41
of the city. I
5:43
was here when this happened. I saw it on the
5:45
11 o'clock news that night. People were
5:47
talking about race wars, martial law, the
5:49
death penalty, all kinds of crazy stuff.
5:53
They called the shooter an animal. As
5:56
A transplant from Miami, I'd already been told
5:59
that my experience. From Boston would
6:01
be different because I'm black
6:03
back and colleagues warned me
6:05
to be careful going into certain
6:07
neighborhoods like South Boston. I
6:09
covered crime in the city
6:11
already. Buses was. On
6:18
a note of the shooting in late
6:20
October, Nineteen Eighty Nine, Boston was seized
6:22
by Planet and Rates. The
6:25
police presence on the streets,
6:27
iraq sprites and I was
6:29
perhaps unprecedented From awesome sight
6:31
have a nightmare of a
6:33
random crime and while under
6:35
seal american neighbors were they
6:37
lived accountable. For two dogs and
6:40
a baby on the way. Carol Store
6:42
was a lawyer for Publishing Company a
6:44
New and was loved by everyone who
6:47
knew her. The Boston Herald call them
6:49
the Camelot Couple a direct reference to
6:51
Jackie Oh and Jfk arguably Massachusetts most
6:53
beloved duel. Next
6:56
too many of those Kim What Headlines was a
6:58
picture from their wedding day. Is
7:00
a portrait of happiness. Carol who's
7:02
made Me was to Midi is
7:05
all green, blue eye shadow and
7:07
pink lipstick. Her head crowned by
7:09
why feel sorry he's prim and
7:12
proper Black tux, white bow tie
7:14
in piercing blue eyes. The.
7:16
Media ran with this image. And.
7:19
The Chamois couple title to. The
7:22
night of the shooting, doctors worked on Carol
7:24
for hours, but they couldn't save her. She
7:27
died just hours after her baby
7:29
Christopher was delivered by C Section.
7:32
He was immediately put on my support. Charles
7:35
Friend barber Williamson said known her
7:38
for years. I had was is.
7:41
Carol. Sewer. Says
7:44
that. She's
7:46
been shown. And
7:49
I am in to saying that may have
7:51
goose. Bumps on. I
7:54
was stunned. When.
7:58
She was murdered Charles pregnant. became
8:00
part of a headline. But while
8:02
she was alive, it had been intimate and
8:04
beautiful. And the fact that she
8:06
was pregnant made her death that much harder to comprehend.
8:10
I mean having a child is a
8:12
life changing undertaking and
8:14
feeling something growing inside of you, something
8:17
that's part of you but isn't you.
8:20
There's a sacredness about it as
8:22
well. Chuck,
8:25
meanwhile, was lucky to be alive. He
8:28
had a gaping wound in his lower back. The
8:31
bullet had traveled upwards and diagonally
8:33
and torn through his liver and
8:35
intestines. It missed his aorta by a
8:38
fraction of an inch. After six
8:40
hours in surgery, he made it to
8:42
the ICU. In
8:44
the morning, the full horror of the crime was
8:46
on display on the front page of the Boston
8:48
Herald. Chuck and Carol in the
8:50
front car seats, covered in blood. Carol
8:53
in the process of dying. Even
8:56
by tabloid standards, the picture is
8:59
extraordinarily graphic. The
9:01
emotional toll the rash of violence is taking
9:03
on our residents, our communities, and
9:05
on our city. I have a lump
9:08
in my throat and tears, a roll up in my
9:10
eyes. It just really hits
9:12
home something that can happen to
9:14
you anytime and I think it
9:17
causes terror. Soon
9:19
police will knock down doors and
9:22
strip search young men. They'll
9:24
lead a massive manhunt. With
9:27
Chuck's description, virtually every black male
9:29
in Mission Hill is a suspect. I was
9:33
afraid at night, that night, heard a lot
9:35
of sirens, police going on early tonight. On
9:38
the night Chuck and Carol Stewart were shot, Don
9:41
Juan Moses was 11 years old. Just
9:43
a kid in Mission Hill. It was
9:46
one of the white cops running in each building. I'm
9:49
an observant, I'm living outside because I see all the lights
9:51
and everything going crazy. My mom was like, mind your business,
9:53
get away from the window. I got nothing to
9:55
turn to you. Don Juan
9:57
Was at home with his mom, grandma, and older.
10:00
I'm a grown up for playing spades.
10:02
I'm watching a game, learning the game,
10:04
understanding over his shoulder, watching like trying
10:06
to learn the game, and like all
10:08
mans on account the books they had
10:10
no idea about the shooting nearby. But
10:13
then. There was this noise in the
10:15
hallway. His mom said it was
10:17
nothing. She pay no mind to
10:20
entertain to i door at google boom.
10:22
Boom boom boom boom the as Fast
10:24
enough Boom boom boom I would the
10:27
hills That and it was. You can
10:29
even as a look at Peak Oil.
10:31
Front door is the Boston Police and
10:33
they were looking for Don Juans cousin
10:35
a t Russian in like she was
10:37
like a key witness out a key
10:39
person today case. Looking around the
10:41
house every base freaking out yelling like was
10:43
going on and it is. Grandma has an.
10:46
They grabbed him. To. His face to
10:48
the table he struggling like what are you
10:50
doing Done A.as you know, bone take them,
10:53
slam against a sign, a wall, Buses.
10:55
Face up on a wall stats him up.
10:57
He saw my mom call his mom a
11:00
total costs on M A C drag him
11:02
down three flights of stairs, His
11:04
cousin wasn't something. It's quite simply,
11:07
he said the discretion of Chuck
11:09
and Sarah starts. Black
11:11
male. Those two
11:14
simple words described tens of
11:16
thousands of people in this
11:18
and they launched a manhunt
11:20
throughout Black Boston and ensnared
11:22
hundreds including diamonds cause. The
11:26
police didn't charge done once cousin with
11:28
anything. And he was back home the
11:30
next day. Answer assistance
11:32
could seem small in the grand
11:35
scheme of things, but not to.want
11:37
it since his understanding of the
11:39
world. And his place in if. He's
11:42
in his forties now and he still
11:44
doesn't trust the police. I got a
11:46
camera my car oh my when show
11:48
because I'm feared of what can happen
11:50
if anything was of and to me
11:52
I'm good enough for technology where that
11:54
since my my my hard drive. to
11:57
centipede wet the be aware what happened to me
11:59
laugh You know, I can't trust
12:01
their word over mine. Ever.
12:06
The police response in late 1989, which
12:08
shaped the way an entire generation of
12:10
black men would look at law enforcement.
12:13
I feel like when they first heard this case,
12:16
one, two, three, they just knew that you was
12:18
near the projects, you said a black man did
12:20
it. That's all we need to know. Read
12:22
the project, flood the projects. That's all they was
12:24
in mindset for. Let somebody to the case.
12:30
Chuck had described the shooter as a grown man, but
12:33
it seemed like the police had a liberal view of that. I
12:36
was a 13, 14
12:38
year old, skinny, tall,
12:42
goofy kid. The first time Tito
12:44
Jackson was stopped by the cops, he had just
12:46
finished playing a game of basketball. It wasn't a
12:48
large group. It was like, you know, three or
12:50
four of us. And
12:52
we weren't, you know, wild, whatever.
12:56
Today, Tito was a successful entrepreneur
12:58
and local politician. But
13:00
in 1989, he was this gangly
13:03
teenager with a crush on a girl he
13:05
was desperate to impress. She
13:07
was also out on the streets that day. And
13:11
we were approached
13:13
by two officers,
13:16
got out of a squad car and
13:20
told us to face defense,
13:23
put our hands up against the
13:25
fence. So there he
13:27
is in front of this girl. He's
13:29
scared, but he doesn't want to show it. Get
13:32
up against the fence. We're
13:34
facing the fence and
13:36
they patter this down and
13:39
now drop them. And
13:41
we knew what that meant. This
13:44
was a situation where you
13:47
know it's life or death. It
13:49
is very, very apparent that
13:51
if you do the wrong thing,
13:54
there are real consequences. So
13:56
right there in the middle of
13:58
the sidewalk on Tremont Street. Tito
14:00
drops his sweatpants. He
14:03
stood there with his hands on the
14:05
fence and his underwear. And
14:09
at the time, the thing I
14:11
was most worried about was not being dehumanized.
14:13
I was a kid, so I
14:15
was worried that the girl who was
14:18
there that I had a crush on saw
14:20
that I did not put lotion on my kneecaps. And
14:23
so I was, they were making fun
14:25
of me because
14:27
I had to drop my pants and my
14:30
knees had a lot of dry skin. They were
14:33
actually. The burn that I had was
14:35
anger at the police officers, but it was mostly
14:38
because they embarrassed me. He
14:40
can't say how long it lasted.
14:43
Considering that the young lady was laughing at
14:45
me, it felt like an eternity. And
14:48
then, you know, they left. And
14:51
we went on. Tito will
14:53
be stopped four or five more times in the
14:55
weeks that followed. And by the way, we weren't
14:57
special. They were doing this to everybody.
15:03
To this day, the police defend their
15:05
tactics and still deny that the mass
15:07
strip searches ever happened. We
15:09
wanted to get a full picture of exactly what
15:11
the police did in Mission Hill in the days
15:13
and weeks following the Stewart shooting. We
15:16
reached out to almost all of the cops involved
15:18
in the investigation. Most of
15:20
them declined to talk. So that
15:22
leaves us with old police records, TV
15:24
news footage, newspaper clips,
15:27
and the memories of Mission Hill residents. When
15:30
you compare those things with what the police say, they
15:33
don't match up. The
15:37
mistreatment of the black community by
15:39
those in power in Boston started long
15:42
before the investigation into Chuck and Carol's
15:44
shooting. Fifteen
15:46
years earlier, race had ripped the city
15:48
apart. When the buses arrived,
15:50
the black students ran into the school under a hail of verbal
15:52
abuse. The
15:55
violence, of course, came in the afternoon when
15:57
the buses were stoned and black children injured.
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Letzen. Years
18:36
before the shooting of Chuck and
18:38
Carol Stewart had exposed the simmering
18:40
racial tensions in Boston, another
18:42
incident made them boil over. Everybody's
18:45
heard of Brown versus Board of Education,
18:48
the 1954 Supreme
18:50
Court decision that deemed
18:52
segregated schools unconstitutional. The
18:55
concept of separate but equal was now
18:57
illegal. But Boston just
19:00
didn't bother to desegregate. In
19:02
1974, when a federal judge
19:05
ordered the city start busing black kids
19:07
to white schools and white kids to
19:09
black schools, white parents
19:11
revolted. This
19:16
was a white protest with white Americans
19:18
clinging to their patriotism. The
19:20
speaker is set up with the judges that has
19:22
sold America down the river. Adrian
19:26
Walker of the Boston Globe brings us
19:28
back to the busing conflict that laid
19:30
the groundwork for the Chuck and Carol
19:32
Stewart case. When
19:35
I came to Boston in the 80s, there were two things
19:37
I knew about the city. Birthplace
19:40
of the American Revolution and
19:42
busing. Why Boston of all
19:44
places? Why did the greatest
19:46
resistance to school busing happen in the city
19:48
that is the epitome of liberty, justice, and
19:51
equality of man? In my Globe
19:53
columns, I've called it Boston Civil War. Screaming
19:55
crowds of white adults with rocks at
19:58
school buses full of black children. There
20:00
were stabbings and shootings and marches on
20:02
City Hall. A lot of
20:05
parents, white and black, stopped sending their
20:07
kids to school altogether. The
20:09
TV footage of the conflict changed how America
20:12
thought about Boston. Nowhere is
20:14
bushing far harder than in the Catholic
20:16
neighborhoods of Boston. When the
20:18
buses arrived, the black students ran into the
20:20
school under a hail of verbal abuse. The
20:23
violence, of course, came in the afternoon
20:25
when the buses were stoned and black
20:27
children injured. They don't act like
20:29
the one done tried to hit people with them. In
20:32
white school there was someone who was laughing
20:34
at black people who little kids. Bussing
20:39
was a slap in the face to every black person. Howard
20:42
Bryant is a journalist and author born
20:44
and raised in Boston. The
20:46
modern history of Boston really begins with
20:49
busing. Those images of
20:52
those white parents, that's
20:55
where it really starts. I mean
20:57
Boston was Boston before that in a lot
20:59
of ways, but my uncles and my
21:01
parents used to say all the time, we never knew how
21:04
much they hated us until then. The
21:07
violence spread through the city and
21:09
this went on for years. The
21:11
scars of busing were barely healing when Mayor
21:14
Ray Flynn was elected in 1983 and he
21:17
promised new days were ahead. Flynn
21:20
had opposed busing just a few years earlier. He
21:23
thought of himself as someone who could bridge the divide.
21:26
Flynn's top deputy, Neil Sullivan, remembers
21:28
the pressure to heal the wounds created
21:31
by busing. I'd seen
21:33
Mayor Flynn in
21:35
his political brilliance move
21:38
quickly to hold people
21:42
across racial lines to
21:45
preempt what
21:48
had begun to feel like the Boston virus
21:50
of racial conflict. Every
21:52
time there was an
21:54
incident of racial violence, the mayor
21:57
and I were both informed. And
22:00
Ray Flynn went to the scene to
22:03
denounce racial violence. He did it over
22:05
and over and over again. And that
22:07
was as much to tell everybody this
22:09
is what we're doing until this settles
22:12
down. Neal says it was
22:14
starting to work. This history was
22:16
going to show Flynn and his team were
22:18
making things better until the
22:20
night Carol Stewart was killed.
22:23
Oh my goodness, this is going to allow our
22:26
political opposition to organize the
22:29
good church-going people
22:31
of Boston's neighborhoods
22:34
along racial lines. Here
22:36
we go again. Immediately,
22:40
Mayor Flynn is taking a different approach.
22:43
He's pressing the police to find the
22:45
shooter fast. People call
22:47
for blood. And inside
22:49
an interrogation room, police
22:51
are pressuring witnesses. Today
22:53
is November 3rd of Friday.
22:58
You're at the homicide unit, which
23:00
is Old District 6 in South
23:02
Boston. That was certain code in
23:05
there. My name is Eric Whitney, W-H-I-G-N-E-Y.
23:10
Detective Peter O'Malley is known as a closer.
23:13
He solves cases. He's
23:15
almost a cliché of an old school detective. White,
23:19
Irish, thick busted accent,
23:21
a bit of a punch. He's
23:23
interviewing Eric Whitney about the day after the murder.
23:26
Eric says a bunch of teenagers get
23:28
together regularly at a house to get
23:30
high, clink, and plain Nintendo. It
23:33
was turned out, it was
23:35
looking bomb, as we
23:37
were saying, Bong, B-O-N-G,
23:40
which is marijuana. Okay. These
23:43
recordings of O'Malley's interviews haven't been
23:45
heard widely before. We helped
23:47
locate them in the basement of a retired judge. Some
23:50
of the tape is hard to hear, and the homicide
23:52
unit was right next to the airport, so you
23:54
can hear the planes flying overhead real
23:57
low. But
24:01
if you listen closely, you can hear the
24:03
story detectives were after. Eric
24:05
wasn't even at the house that day, but
24:07
he's telling police what he says he heard
24:09
from his pal Derek Jackson, who goes by
24:11
D. And Derek had details
24:14
about the shooter, a skinny black man
24:16
in a tracksuit. What did he tell you?
24:18
He told me that he knew
24:21
who the dog was. Police
24:24
have already arrested one guy, a homeless man
24:26
with a drug problem, squatting in an air,
24:28
who happened to have a tracksuit soaking in
24:30
the sink. He spent 10
24:32
days in jail as the prime suspect, and
24:34
then police quietly let him go. Now
24:37
Eric is saying, there's a
24:39
different skinny black man in a tracksuit out
24:41
there, and he's bragging about what he did.
24:44
Derek say that he says,
24:46
he's in the car, he got
24:49
out the car, got into the store, and he's
24:52
caught. So, he's going
24:54
to get money when he was. So he's in
24:56
the washroom. He just got. He got out. He
24:58
saw the dope man reach for
25:01
whatever. He got his
25:03
five-o. Eric
25:06
says Derek told him the suspect got into the
25:08
Stewart's car, robbed him, and then ran
25:10
when he thought Chuck was a police officer. Five-o.
25:14
How does Eric know all this? Well,
25:17
two heads, that's what was Derek. And
25:19
then D. and the attorney told
25:21
me. Right? And the attorney,
25:24
D. and B. I told my mom. D.
25:26
and B. I told my mother. It
25:28
was a game of telephone. But
25:31
what matters to the police is that these
25:33
teenagers are pointing the finger at Willie Bennett,
25:36
a well-known name to just about every cop
25:38
in Boston. He had
25:40
legendary status in the toughest corners of
25:42
Mission Hill. Around
25:44
the time of the Stewart shooting, Willie had recently
25:46
gotten out of prison for a shootout with the
25:48
cops. In fact, Willie's name
25:50
shows up, along with dozens of others,
25:53
on police tip sheets collected from hotline calls
25:55
from the public in the days after the
25:57
killing. We found those tip
25:59
sheets. One red word on
26:01
the street is, then it did it. But
26:04
it's not going to be that clean. Even
26:07
though a lot of people are talking about Willie,
26:10
the best evidence the cops have comes from Eric
26:12
Whitney and his friend Derek, who gave his own
26:14
statement to police that night. But
26:16
a day later, Eric comes back and says the story
26:19
he told about Willie, it wasn't true.
26:22
Here's Eric. My
26:30
booty, it gave me 20 years
26:32
of awful. I slipped out. I
26:35
was scared. I can't say
26:37
anything. So what you're telling me
26:39
now, or that was never sent to you? I was never sent
26:41
to you. But where
26:43
did you get that story? I
26:47
made that story up. Why
26:49
were you lying to me in a murder
26:51
investigation? Tell the machine that? I
26:56
told you that. I was trying
26:58
to get my booty off. No, no,
27:00
no, no, no, no, no. You tell
27:03
the machine very slowly why you lied
27:05
to me. And you know,
27:07
this is a murder investigation of the
27:09
woman that got shot. It was made
27:12
very, very clear to you that
27:15
you tell that machine why
27:18
you lied to me in this homicide
27:20
case. Really
27:23
doing a lot of shit because I
27:27
knew I had them two warrants out. Eric
27:29
knew he had unrelated warrants out for his
27:31
arrest and he wanted to see him
27:33
cooperative. So I started playing by. I
27:37
was asking him questions. I
27:39
was adding them on to try to make it
27:41
look good for me. So
27:43
when they asked him questions, he
27:46
said what he thought they wanted
27:48
to hear. And I could get out this
27:50
building the same day I came in. The
27:52
longer the interrogation goes, the
27:55
more O'Malley presses. That mean
27:57
you're nervous or the answers wasn't? You
28:00
can do the skate. You scared? I
28:02
look like I'm gonna beat you up. No.
28:05
Huh? No. Where you skate at? Wrong
28:08
jail. Derek tried
28:11
to recant the same night as Eric. But
28:13
the cops didn't believe their second version. Good
28:16
evening. I'm Mark Weill, and welcome to this News 7
28:18
Late Update. Topping News 7 tonight, Boston
28:20
police remain tight-blipped about what could be
28:22
a major break in the investigation into
28:25
the shootings of Chuck and Carol Stewart.
28:28
Police make their move on Willie. Search
28:30
warrant in hand. They've raised
28:32
three different homes where he's laid his head. What
28:35
happened here last night, Ms. Smith? What
28:37
happened? They told my house all the time. How
28:40
do you feel when you see that newspaper story
28:42
this morning saying your son is the number one
28:44
suspect in Stewart case? All the white fields. But
28:48
I said I know he didn't do it. Prosecutors
28:50
kept Willie jailed on other unrelated charges
28:52
while they continued to build their murder
28:55
case. But the police are
28:57
confident. They've got those statements from Derek
28:59
and Eric. They've got Willie, a skinny
29:01
black man with a hell of a record,
29:03
in jail. All they need
29:05
is a positive ID. That
29:07
happens about seven weeks later on December 28.
29:12
By now, the Stewart's infant son, Christopher,
29:14
has died. And Chuck Stewart is recovering
29:16
after a six-week hospital stay. Chuck
29:19
walks into a little room in police headquarters
29:21
with a big one-way mirror. My
29:23
leg is shaking. My app was pounding. Although
29:27
it's my attorney, Jack Darlin, I
29:30
think I'll tell him that the individuals that I had
29:32
identified, I was 99% sure. And
29:35
over my words, that was the man. The
29:38
tape's a little tough on the years. But in it,
29:41
Chuck says he's 99% sure that
29:44
person number three in the lineup is the skinny
29:46
black man who was in his car that night,
29:49
the man who murdered his wife and child. Chuck
29:52
points to Willie Bennett. The
29:55
case appears soft. Willie
29:57
Bennett is in jail, and the Boston police
29:59
are. working toward a murder charge. But
30:02
Chuck Stewart's next move is about to upend the case
30:05
and everything the people of Boston had been willing
30:07
to believe. It's
30:10
January 4th, 1990. Chuck
30:13
Stewart stops his car on the lower deck of the
30:15
Tobin Bridge. He leaves a
30:17
handwritten note on the front passenger seat and
30:19
steps out. The engine is
30:22
still running. TV
30:24
reporter Jack Harper was sent to the scene that
30:26
day. I remember it was cold. And
30:29
I was sent down to the dock because
30:32
there was a report of a man who jumped in the
30:35
water. And
30:37
I'll never forget it. It was the
30:39
first assistant district attorney, Leary, was
30:42
there. And I remember
30:44
standing there with him. And I said, oh
30:46
my god, this poor guy, how much worse can it get?
30:49
What a terrible ending. He just couldn't take it
30:52
anymore. I understand. And
30:54
he said, you have no idea. You
30:56
don't know what happened. It's not what
30:58
you think. He killed
31:00
her. He set
31:02
this up. He just committed
31:05
suicide. Everything
31:08
stopped. The
31:11
police theories, the media narratives, the
31:13
citizen outrage, it's all wrong. When
31:19
Chuck Stewart killed himself, the truth came
31:22
out. It was the husband
31:24
all along. I was just
31:26
kicking myself. We all were kicking ourselves.
31:28
How could we not have figured this out? How
31:30
could we not have known? But
31:33
there were people who did know. That's
31:35
next on Reveal. This
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PRX, this is Reveal. I'm
32:36
Al Legend. In
32:39
the fall of 1989, the Boston
32:41
Police Department put every available detective
32:43
on the hunt for the person
32:46
who shot Chuck Stewart and killed
32:48
his pregnant wife, Carol. When
32:50
Chuck picks a black man with a long
32:53
rap sheet out of a lineup, police think
32:55
they've got their shooter. Days
32:57
later, Chuck Stewart dies by suicide
32:59
and the truth comes out. He
33:02
was behind Carol's murder. It
33:05
seems like he duped everyone. But
33:07
the Boston Globe found out there were clues
33:09
all along if anyone had
33:11
been looking for them. Here's
33:14
Adrian Walker. It
33:17
only took two words from Chuck as he lay bleeding
33:20
on a stretcher. Black man.
33:23
And all this machinery, the police,
33:25
the press, the politicians, kicked
33:28
into gear. These institutions did
33:30
what they always did, what
33:32
they always had done. Find
33:34
the black man. Carol's
33:38
friend, Barbara Williamson, remembers riding
33:40
waves of disbelief and guilt.
33:43
I had to rewrite the story in
33:45
my head. I had to recapitulate the
33:48
whole experience through a completely different
33:50
lens. And
33:52
I was just so full of shame for
33:55
what happened to the African American
33:58
people in Boston. feeling
34:00
like I was a part of it. I was
34:02
complicit. No, I
34:05
didn't pull the trigger. No, I didn't point the finger at the
34:07
wrong guy. But I'm white. And
34:10
I'm enmeshed in this.
34:14
Miss. Black
34:18
men in Boston have spent the last two
34:20
and a half months walking around
34:22
with this constant helpless fear of
34:24
being targeted as suspects. And
34:27
now all that pinto anger
34:29
just poured out. The black
34:31
and Hispanic community has once
34:34
again been the
34:36
victim of a Ku
34:38
Klux Klan type of knife-riding and
34:40
a sensational rape of this community
34:43
by public officials and by the
34:45
media in particular. Reverend
34:47
Grayland Ellis Hagler was one of the most
34:50
prominent voices in Boston back then. He
34:53
ran a church in Mission Hill and had
34:55
witnessed firsthand police violating the civil
34:57
rights of young males in the neighborhood. This
35:00
time, however, the knife-riding
35:02
was not the action of
35:04
white-roofed bigots, but instead the
35:06
actions of a man, Mayor
35:09
Raymond Flynn, who so quickly jumped
35:11
to conclusions. Boston's
35:14
black community felt betrayed. I
35:17
have had enough. This community
35:19
has had enough. Except
35:27
when it happens in the black community.
35:32
But the biggest impact was on the
35:34
prime suspect, Willie Bennett, and his
35:36
family. The Bennets had spent
35:38
weeks telling anybody who would listen that Willie
35:40
was innocent, but nobody believed them.
35:43
All the time, my son didn't have nothing to do with
35:45
it. And we were innocent all
35:47
the time. But I know one thing,
35:49
I'm just glad that it was over. My
35:52
brother was the one that did it, and I'm glad they
35:54
found out that he was the one that killed his
35:56
own wife. I
35:58
remember. feeling a
36:00
certain sense of immediate
36:04
relief. That it
36:06
wasn't the black guy after all. And then I remember feeling
36:08
an immediate sense of anger that it was never the black
36:10
guy. Journalist Howard Bryant. I
36:13
don't think Charles Stewart had to consume a whole lot of
36:15
media to believe that it's ingrained. Blame
36:18
the black guy. It's really
36:20
easy because it works. This
36:23
was once again the fear of black people.
36:28
The lack of regard for black people.
36:31
And the lack of regard for Carol
36:33
Stewart. Because getting the black guy was
36:35
more important than getting her killer. Carol
36:40
was a victim of domestic violence. She was murdered
36:42
by her husband. And that
36:46
fact is sometimes obscured or lost in the
36:48
insanity of the story. The
36:52
leading cause of death for pregnant women in America is homicide. That's
36:56
according to a 2022 study by
36:59
Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
37:01
Yeah, you heard that
37:03
right. A pregnant woman in this country is more
37:05
likely to be killed by the father of her
37:08
child than she is to
37:10
die from anything related to her pregnancy.
37:13
We asked Carol's family if they wanted to
37:15
speak for this project. They said no. They
37:18
have spent years talking about
37:20
Carol. Participating in documentaries and TV specials.
37:23
And they told us they had nothing
37:26
more to say. But before we go any further,
37:28
I want to play you this tape of Carol's dad
37:30
speaking in 1990 about losing his daughter. Of
37:34
all the many hours of interviews
37:37
we've listened to, this one stands out. Because
37:40
in justo de made his voice,
37:42
all you hear is his love for his daughter.
37:45
Me at words
37:48
cannot express the terrible emptiness we feel
37:50
or how much we miss her now.
37:54
And we'll miss her for the rest of our lives. All
37:58
she ever wanted was to be a child. was to be
38:00
a good daughter, wife, mother,
38:04
and be happy in her life. She
38:08
was not given this opportunity to fulfill
38:10
all those wishes, but as far as
38:12
we are concerned, she exceeded in every
38:15
voice possible as a pure and loving
38:17
human being. We
38:20
pray that God has taken her and
38:22
our beloved grandson, Christopher, into
38:24
his embrace in heaven where
38:26
they will be saved and happy. Until
38:30
the time we will join her. Thank
38:32
you. It's
38:40
been more than 30 years since the Stuart shooting in
38:42
Mission Hill. The gist is
38:44
always this. Chuck was a
38:47
psychopathic manipulator. He planned
38:49
the near perfect crime. He
38:51
fooled everyone, including the police. This
38:54
mythology that everyone was duped has
38:56
been seemingly set in stone. But
38:59
our team of investigative reporters at the Globe, we
39:02
had the sense that there was more to this story. So
39:05
we spent two years digging. We
39:07
learned that plenty of people knew about Chuck's involvement.
39:10
And there were even Boston police detectives who
39:12
had suspicions from the very beginning. My
39:15
name is Robert F. Behrns, the Louis
39:17
T. Lee, RN, Boston Police Detective assigned
39:19
to the homicide unit. Present
39:21
is Robert T. Tinlin, T-I-N-L-I-N.
39:25
He's also a Boston Police Detective assigned to the
39:27
homicide unit. Robert Ahern and
39:30
Robert Tinlin worked hundreds of murder cases
39:32
together. They were detectives to
39:34
the Corps. They even had
39:36
an autographed picture of Colombo, the famous
39:38
TV gumshoe, hanging in their office. Ahern
39:41
and Tinlin were inseparable, Bob
39:44
and Bob. Colleagues called
39:46
them the two Bobbies. My
39:48
father was, he was considered
39:50
by people like to be more on the
39:52
quiet side. And
39:54
Robert Ahern was definitely more the
39:57
outgoing type and kind of
39:59
a hot ticket. That's Matt
40:01
Tinland, Bob Tinland's son. The
40:03
two Bobbies died years ago. Erharn
40:06
and Tinland were working together on the night of the
40:08
shooting. They were next on the
40:10
homicide rotation, meaning that this was
40:12
their call, their case. Almost
40:16
immediately, the two Bobbies had questions for
40:18
Chuck, and when they talked to
40:20
him, they found him too calm. We
40:23
know what the pair were thinking because we
40:25
got our hands on Erharn's grand jury
40:28
testimony. He wasn't acting as a
40:30
person that just got shot and saw his wife
40:32
get shot. The U.S. Attorney's
40:34
Office convened a grand jury to investigate
40:36
Boston police's handling of the case a
40:39
couple years later. You're
40:41
hearing my colleague reading the statements Erharn
40:43
made under Othe. Erharn
40:45
described a Columbo moment they had when
40:48
they left Chuck's room. I
40:50
asked Bob, I said, does he remind
40:52
you of anybody? And Bob says, yeah,
40:54
and we both said at the same
40:56
time, John Jenks. John Jenks
40:58
was a cop who had staged his own shooting in 1983 after
41:00
he robbed and killed a
41:03
man in Boston's red light district. Jenks
41:06
shot himself to cover up the crime, but
41:08
he was caught anyway. Tinland
41:10
talked about it with his son. I
41:13
do remember him saying
41:15
something to the effect like he was fully
41:17
**** talking
41:20
about Stewart. The story did not jive with him
41:22
from the beginning. There
41:26
were other parts of Chuck's story that didn't line up. Just
41:29
as a reminder, Chuck called
41:31
911 at 8 43 p.m. on a
41:33
Monday night in late October. He
41:36
said that he was lost in Mission Hill, that
41:38
it was pitch dark and that there was no
41:40
one around. But Bob
41:42
and Bob wondered, how is Chuck so lost?
41:45
He had just left the hospital and was only
41:47
a couple blocks away. Why didn't
41:50
he just drive back in that direction? And
41:52
how was there no one around to ask for help? On
41:56
three different nights, a heron took his own car
41:58
out to Mission Hill, Drove the city.
42:00
the around and play the nine One One recording
42:02
on his death. He
42:04
found that sucks. Details were asked,
42:06
there were people regularly out on
42:08
the streets of an hour and
42:11
a wasn't as dark outside the
42:13
church and described the story. Didn't
42:15
add up but police brass had
42:17
already witnessed such as a suspect
42:19
say it's settled on the black
42:21
man and a tracksuit. And
42:23
that's when the to Bobby's got big foot
42:26
of and police officials put another detective on
42:28
a kiss. Yeah. Peter
42:30
A Rally or reject the route.
42:32
I gotta remember Detective Peter Malik
42:35
interrogating teenagers Eric and Death. Or
42:38
Malley took over the case from the
42:40
to Bob's He became the lead detective
42:42
and that's when the investigation when in
42:45
a different direction. And. Bobby
42:47
Tim was son says the outcome of haunted
42:49
his father for the rest of his life.
42:51
They will and I'm an image amount of
42:53
stay Allow them to do it. none of
42:55
this would happen. So.
42:58
This all begs the question. What? Would
43:00
have happened if till in in a
43:02
hurry up or soon south as a
43:04
suspect. If they're skepticism for of the
43:06
investigation what would they have found? Well
43:09
plenty. First off they would
43:11
have found that much of such life was
43:13
a facade. The biggest fiction said pretending to
43:15
be and excited dared to be it. Turns
43:18
out he didn't want to be a father and didn't
43:20
want tell the stay home with the baby. Even
43:23
before their first birth in class,
43:25
he was plotting favoured silt. David
43:27
Maclean was one accepts oldest friends.
43:29
About a month and a half
43:31
before Charles murders the to pals
43:33
had a conversation in a restaurant
43:36
parking lot. Is David recounting it
43:38
to police after such suicide? He
43:40
said that he had argued with his
43:42
wife when she first became pregnant for
43:44
a few weeks and at the sauce
43:46
up in a new that he never
43:48
saw before. Was
43:50
an editor where she had the upper hand
43:52
in a relationship. And.
43:57
Says when he told me that he wanted to kill his
43:59
wife. He was hoping that I
44:01
knew somebody or that I
44:03
could help have it arranged. David
44:06
told Chuck he couldn't help him. But
44:08
after Carol's death and long before Chuck's
44:10
suicide, David told his brother, who told
44:12
a friend, who called state trooper
44:15
Dan Grabowski to pass on the tip. Grabowski
44:18
was one of the emergency dispatchers who took
44:20
Chuck's 911 call on the night
44:22
of the shooting. He got his
44:24
tip that Chuck was behind it all. And
44:27
Grabowski appears to have done little to nothing with
44:29
that tip. We wanted to
44:31
ask Grabowski about it, but it became
44:33
pretty clear that he wasn't taking questions. You're
44:36
a disgrace. I'm sorry that I had
44:38
to relay this like a, but it
44:40
just infuriates me because I know where
44:42
you're after. I know what's
44:44
going to happen. You're going to make Willie Bennett
44:47
a hero just like they made George Floyd a
44:49
hero. Grabowski wasn't
44:51
the only one who got this tip. A
44:53
herd got it too after he'd already
44:55
been taken off the case. If
44:58
the police department acted on it, this could have
45:00
changed the whole case. Could
45:02
have changed history. That
45:04
tip came in while officers were ripping through Mission
45:06
Hill, risking scores of black
45:08
and some Latino men. And
45:11
before police zeroed in on Willie Bennett,
45:13
that's the prime suspect. After
45:17
Chuck struck out with his best friend, he
45:19
turned to his little brother, Matthew Stewart. At
45:22
the time of the shooting, Chuck's youngest brother
45:24
was 23, living with his parents,
45:27
juggling small jobs. This
45:30
is the tape of Matthew's actual police
45:32
interrogation, tape that's never been
45:34
released publicly. Do you have a story you'd
45:36
like to tell us, Matt? On the
45:38
night before Chuck's suicide, Matthew told
45:40
the cops Chuck was planning an insurance scam.
45:43
The brothers were going to fake a robbery. He
45:46
wanted to do his thing in town where all I had to
45:48
do was drive up to him and he'd throw me a bag.
45:50
And I'd just drive her up. This
45:53
is how Matthew described it. He'd
45:55
get rid of Carol's jewelry. Chuck
45:57
would file a claim and Matthew could make up to
45:59
10,000 dollars. $1,000 from the payout He
46:02
says Chuck told him exactly where to be He
46:05
borrowed a friend's car and waited until
46:07
he saw the blue cresseta Chuck and Carol's
46:09
car as it came around the corner
46:11
toward him Matthew said he saw something
46:13
in the car a pile of something
46:16
on the seat next to Chuck That's
46:18
how Matthew described his dying sister-in-law
46:23
And pulled up to the car He
46:25
said Matt wait a second and
46:27
I'm in my driver's seat. He's in his
46:29
driver's seat He said wait
46:31
a second and he pulled up He
46:34
goes all right get out of here drive slow
46:36
and he taught he gave a toss with his
46:38
left hand like that We'll be open to the
46:40
open window When he
46:42
got home Matthew told police he
46:44
found Carol's wallet and ID her
46:47
engagement ring a Gucci purse Chuck's
46:49
watch and a gun He
46:52
says he and his childhood friend went down to the river
46:55
and tossed it and They kept
46:57
this secret from police for two and a
46:59
half months But
47:01
it was hardly a secret Matthew
47:03
started telling people the day after the shooting
47:06
and they told other people By
47:08
New Year's Day 1990 word had spread from
47:11
Matthew to some of his siblings about Chuck's
47:13
role in the murder This
47:19
extraordinary moment is captured on tape
47:21
because Chuck's brother Michael a Firefighter
47:24
talked to their sister Shelley from
47:26
the firehouse on a recorded line
47:34
What's gonna happen They Want
47:48
to tell their parents that they know Chuck was
47:50
involved they just don't want to
47:52
say that he killed Carol I'll
48:00
get out of here. All right. I'm
48:02
here once in a little toad. It's a battalion
48:04
of comms. You guys better be here. I don't
48:06
know. All right. Michael, in 10 minutes. All right.
48:08
All right. Bye. Bye. Michael
48:12
heard everything about the shooting from
48:14
Matthew, but it wouldn't have come
48:17
as a surprise because guess this,
48:20
Chuck had asked Michael to help him kill Carol too,
48:23
just a few weeks before she turned up dead.
48:26
And yet Michael said nothing
48:28
to detectives. Michael
48:31
would later claim that he didn't fully
48:33
understand what Chuck was proposing. By
48:37
this point, our reporting shows that at least 33
48:39
people, 33
48:42
knew in some way or another that
48:44
there was no black man and that
48:46
Chuck was responsible for Carol's death. But
48:49
it took Matthew's confession to staging a
48:52
robbery and disposing of what might've
48:54
been the murder weapon for the police to
48:56
focus on Chuck. About
49:00
a week after Chuck's death, the
49:02
store siblings, save from Matthew, held a
49:04
press conference. They sat
49:06
in chairs in a stuffy looking law office lined
49:08
with books. Their lawyer said
49:11
most of the siblings had no clue
49:13
about Chuck's deceit. In
49:15
this family, Rumi wants
49:17
it to be known that
49:20
they had no information as
49:23
to anything that their deceased brother Charles
49:25
may have done. In any
49:27
way, whatsoever,
49:30
the appearance that has evolved
49:32
in my judgment is
49:35
that some type of
49:37
conspiratorial scenario existed by and
49:39
between all these family members
49:42
sitting around talking about
49:44
keeping something hidden. That
49:46
is not true. They
49:49
want you, the world to know. They
49:52
love Carol Domani. They,
49:56
to use their words, In
50:05
1992, Matthew Stewart pleaded guilty to
50:07
insurance fraud and weapons charges and
50:10
served two and a half years in prison. But
50:12
was that the whole story? A
50:15
grand jury spent more than a year considering
50:18
charges against Matthew. He was
50:20
never charged with firing a shot. But
50:23
our team pulled to medical records, police
50:25
forensic reports, FBI lab notes, and
50:27
a whole lot more. Eventually,
50:29
we determined there's strong evidence that
50:32
someone else was there that night
50:34
helping Chuck. And that
50:36
person may have even pulled the trigger. Three
50:39
separate witnesses told police they saw a
50:41
third person in or next to Chuck's
50:43
car. Though it's inconclusive,
50:46
some medical experts don't think Chuck's
50:48
gunshot wound could have been
50:50
self-inflicted. To
50:52
this day, Matthew's former attorney steadfastly denies
50:55
he played any significant role in the
50:57
shooting and says he was duped by
50:59
his older brother. We
51:01
can't talk to Matthew. He struggled
51:03
with drugs following his prison stint, and
51:06
he died in a homeless shelter in But
51:09
we talked to a lot of people who grew up in Mission
51:11
Hill. There is a whole
51:13
generation of black men who were shaped by these
51:16
few weeks in late 1989. Listen
51:19
to their voices. Well,
51:22
after October 23, me and a couple
51:24
of friends was walking down Parker Street.
51:27
A couple of unmarked police cars pulled up
51:29
on us, searched us, then
51:32
pulled me to the side and asked me
51:34
to take down my pants. I felt like
51:36
my heart dropped out of my
51:38
chest. I'm like, what the **** did I do?
51:40
I wasn't doing anything but going to work. I
51:43
lived in Roxbury, and I was walking home. And
51:46
they just rolled up on me and threw me against the
51:48
wall and started searching. I refused to
51:50
take down my pants. They was
51:52
like, well, if you don't want to
51:54
take down your pants here, we'll arrest you. I
51:56
was like, well, pick the handcuffs on me. the
52:00
morning, it's gonna be a fight. Driving
52:03
home one day, I saw a whole bunch of young
52:06
men with their pants and under way down around
52:08
their ankles on
52:10
Dudley Street, hands against the wall.
52:13
The cop got his gun out. And
52:16
they're searching the kids and they're laughing. The cop's
52:18
laughing. Everyone walked
52:20
around in fear. Now,
52:22
how does all of this make you feel?
52:25
Well, it makes me feel
52:28
uncomfortable. What do you mean by uncomfortable?
52:31
Uncomfortable that my rights have been violated, that
52:34
this is a free land to
52:36
walk on. To me, it doesn't
52:38
seem like a free land. Thanks
52:44
to Adrian Walker for bringing us this
52:47
story. To hear more
52:49
of the Boston Globes investigation, listen
52:51
to the 10-part podcast, Murder in
52:53
Boston, the HBO documentary
52:55
series, Murder in Boston, Roots, Rampage,
52:58
and Reckoning is also available to
53:00
stream on Max. This
53:07
story was reported by Evan Allen, Elizabeth
53:10
Ko, Andrew Ryan, and Adrian Walker. The
53:13
project was led by Brendan McCarthy. Kate
53:15
Howard and Kristen Nelson edited the show. Matt
53:17
Mahoney and Nicky Frick were our fact checkers.
53:20
Victoria Baranetsky is our general counsel. Our
53:23
production managers are Stephen Raskone and Zulema
53:25
Cobb. Our show was mixed by Reza
53:27
Dayan. Scored and sound designed
53:29
by the dynamic duo, Jay Breezy, Mr.
53:31
Jim Briggs, and Fernando, my man, Yo
53:33
Arruda. Our interim executive producers are Taki
53:35
Telenides and Brett Myers. Our theme
53:38
music is by Kamarato Lightly. Support
53:40
for Reveal is provided by the Reva
53:42
and David Logan Foundation, the Ford Foundation,
53:45
the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
53:47
Foundation, the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, the
53:49
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Park Foundation,
53:51
and the Hellman Foundation. Reveal
53:53
is a co-production of the Center for Investigative Reporting
53:56
and PRX. I'm Al Lenson, and remember, there is
53:58
always a place for you to be. more into
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the story.
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