Nightmare in Mission Hill: Act I
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** NIGHTMARE IN MISSION HILL
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** ACT I : THE SHOOTING
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Charles Stuart dials 911 from his car phone.
He’s lost somewhere in Boston and bleeding out.
His pregnant wife, Carol, is in the seat next to him, with a gunshot wound to the head.
This white couple from the suburbs was just carjacked upon leaving a birthing class at a hospital and drawn deep into Mission Hill.
They are the epitome of the urban nightmare of the late 1980s. And their terror is captured on tape.
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The shocking Stuart shooting incites a massive dragnet for a Black man in a striped track suit.
Armed with “stop and frisk” powers, police tear through the Mission Hill neighborhood.
Virtually every young Black male is a suspect. Boston is gripped by fear.
Race, class, crime and punishment – the city's raw nerves are laid bare.
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The shooting hits at the heart of Boston’s most bitter divisions and reopens a wound around race relations that was just beginning to heal.
In 1974, the city was thrown into turmoil when a judge ordered the desegregation of Boston schools. Some parents revolted and attacked school buses carrying Black children.
The Stuart shooting aftermath reignites unresolved anger and revives an ugly chapter of Boston's history.
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Explore more audio, documents and photos from the Globe’s two-year investigation into the Charles Stuart case.
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** FRONT PAGES
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GLOBE: OCT 25, 1989 ([link removed])
HERALD: OCT 30, 1989 ([link removed])
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** THE 911 CALL
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** DOCUMENTS
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TRANSCRIPT: 911 CALL ([link removed])
POLICE REPORT: CHARLES' DESCRIPTION ([link removed])
NIGHTMARE IN MISSION HILL ([link removed]) was reported by Adrian Walker, Evan Allen, Elizabeth Koh and Andrew Ryan, and edited by Brendan McCarthy, Kristin Nelson and Mark Morrow.
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