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451 // A Murder in Boston w/Adrian Walker

Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

Crawlspace Media

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this new episode of Crawlspace, Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna are joined by renowned Boston journalist Adrain Walker. Adrain was one of the first reporters to cover the murder of Carol Stuart by her husband Charles on October 23rd, 1989. His unique perspective as a black journalist in Boston, during the murder's subsequent racial unrest, makes for a fascinating conversation. Listen to the Murder In Boston podcast, an HBO/Boston Globe production featuring Adrian: https://apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/investigations/2023/12/charles-stuart/murder-in-boston-charles-stuart-podcast/ https://www.bostonglobe.com/about/staff-list/columnist/adrian-walker/ https://twitter.com/adrian_walker?lang=en Check out our Subscription Service where we have a bundled our bonus material from Missing, Crawlspace and Dark Valley shows! Ad-free episodes and more at https://missing.supportingcast.fm/ Follow us: IG: https://www.instagram.com/crawlspacepodcast/. TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast. YT: https://www.youtube.com/crawlspace. Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrawlspacePod. FB: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast/. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/58cll3enTW2SNmbJUuLsrt. The music for Crawlspace was produced by David Flajnik. Listen to his music here: https://www.pond5.com/artist/bigdsound. Check out the entire Crawlspace Media Network at http://crawlspace-media.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Welcome to Crawl space. I'm Tim here today with Lance. How are you today?

0:32.4

I'm doing fantastic today, Tim.

0:34.0

This is a conversation that has been sitting in the hopper for a while now.

0:38.0

We are finally releasing it and I couldn't be more thrilled because the gentleman we're speaking with today is a total professional

0:45.2

He brings to our attention and he brings to our listener's attention the inner workings of one of the most notorious crimes in Boston history, the ramifications, people are still

0:55.8

feeling them today.

0:57.6

And it's fascinating, but what I am more fascinated about in this very moment is how you are.

1:03.0

Thanks a lot for asking. I'm doing great.

1:05.0

And yeah, very excited to introduce this conversation that we had with Boston Globe columnist

1:11.0

Adrian Walker, who was the producer producer or one of the producers on this

1:16.0

fantastic podcast that was done by the Boston Globe it's called Murder in

1:20.5

Boston the untold story of the Charles and Carol Stewart shooting.

1:25.8

This podcast goes really deep and there's 10 episodes and it also had a documentary by the same title that aired on Max and we asked Adrian about that briefly

1:37.7

but I don't think there was too much crossover between the two projects despite the topic and the title being the same.

1:45.0

And she was murdered by her husband, Charles, on October 23, 1989,

1:50.0

and that, like we said, just set off this series of of events it really pulled back the curtain on this racial tension that had been

1:56.9

Coming to a boil for many many years in Boston to hear it from Adrian's perspective, a black man working for one of the two major

2:06.5

newspapers in Boston is again truly truly fascinating and riveting and

2:10.9

And despite all of the tragedy I just want to direct the listeners to the

2:14.8

Carol Damotti Stewart Foundation and that's D I M A I T I Stewart Foundation

2:21.4

this was formed by Carol's family to

2:24.3

provide scholarship to Mission Hill residents and Malden High School

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