![]() He never rolled down the window or opened to door to shout for help. But during the call he never mentioned his dying wife’s name, spoke directly to her, tried to comfort her or tell the 911 dispatcher that his wife was pregnant. Stuart described the supposed assailant as an African American in a black Adidas tracksuit and with a raspy voice. Then Stuart called 911 and claimed that a Black man had jumped into their blue Toyota Cressida, shooting Carol in the head and Stuart in the abdomen. They attended birthing class at Brigham and Women’s hospital in Mission Hill on 23 October 1989. After the crime, the media dubbed them the “ Camelot couple”. ![]() He was the general manager of a furrier and making more than $100,000 a year she was a lawyer and worked at a publishing company in Newton. “It wasn’t a far leap for him to take, being a sociopathic maniac, to say, you know what? I’ll just blame a Black man for this and in the city of Boston, all the attention is immediately going to be diverted from me to this phantom Black man that a lot of the city seems to be afraid of.”Ĭhuck and Carol Stuart were from two blue-collar suburbs of Boston and seemed to be getting ahead. Hehir continues: “If you’re a guy like Chuck Stuart, you grew up in that era and now you’re reading the news about the crack epidemic taking hold of inner-city Boston and you’re reading about the police stopping and frisking just about any young Black male that they could find because they had permission to do so. School desegregation bussing in Boston in the mid-1970s was met with mass protests and violent resistance. It was very easy to tell what neighbourhood you were in by the demographics in Boston, more so than in other cities. There is bigotry in every city and there is segregation demographically, but in Boston it seems more pronounced and the edge between those neighbourhoods are a lot sharper. But then there’s this underbelly that we’re not so proud of: there’s been years, if not decades, if not centuries, of racial injustice and bigotry in that city. It is a hub of technology, a hub of innovation and a hub of education and Bostonians are very proud of that. “We are known as a bastion of liberal and progressive ideas and ‘the hub’ – Boston has that nickname for a reason. Hehir, who grew up in the suburb of Newton, looks at the big picture and finds a city riddled with paradoxes: liberal politics and world-leading universities offset by racial tensions that had been simmering for decades. “I am intrigued by anything where you can tell a larger story through a smaller one, so examining Boston’s racial history through the lens of this case was something that always appealed to me, and finally got the opportunity to do so with HBO a couple of years ago.” Hehir, 47, whose credits include The Last Dance and Andre The Giant, says via Zoom from Brooklyn, New York: “I’ve never done true crime before, and I never had much of an interest in doing just a story about a murder just for the sake of sensationalism or for the lurid aspect of it. The Stuart case, and the ways in which it enflamed decades-old racial tensions in Boston, is explored in Hehir’s docuseries Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning, the first episode of which aired on HBO on Monday. When he was finally exposed, Stuart killed himself by jumping off a bridge into the Mystic River. Stuart had killed his own wife and child and spun a fantasy that led police to terrorise the Black community and arrest innocent men. ![]() and Mrs.But the murder investigation was built on a lie – a lie that the police, mayor and media wanted to believe. “I hope some people are like, ‘This is better than the original,’ and some people are like, ‘This is far worse.’” What Is ‘Mr. So, if everybody’s like, ‘Eh,’ we didn’t do a good job,” he said. “I just know how much people love the other one. While Glover might not be a die-hard fan of the 2005 flick, he acknowledged that the new show has big shoes to fill. I just wanted it to be something that spoke to people right now because in a time of abundance, why do we feel lonely?” “Let’s make a show dealing with relationships, but from this point of view, centering more on really what a marriage is and trust and teamwork and loneliness and all that stuff. “Why do people even get married anymore? Half of it ends in divorce - what’s the purpose?” Glover said. Smith when he first watched the film, and he wanted the show to take a deeper look at the institution of marriage. The actor admitted that he didn’t “understand” Mr. Glover noted during a November 2023 interview with Entertainment Weekly that the forthcoming series “gives you a different feeling” than the original movie. Maya Erskine, Donald Glover David Lee/Prime Video
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