Charles Stuart- The American dream was not enough, a cruel racial hoax set a firestorm ablaze

Boston Confidential Beantown's True Crime Podcast

Barry J. Maguire

Drama, Whitey, Boston, Boston True Crime, True Crime, South Boston, Charlestown, Fiction, Roxbury, Dorchester

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Send us a text In 1989 Chuck Stuart went from making four dollars an hour to over one hundred thousand annually in the space of a few years. His beautiful wife, carrying his first son. A suburban Boston home, what more could any man desire? Apparently, he wanted to open a restaurant and he murdered his wife and baby for the insurance money. He forged an elaborate lie that sent race relations in Boston back fifty years. Who else was involved and would justice ever be served in this...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Boston Confidential, Bean Towns, True Crime Podcast.
0:11.8	Boston is a great city, but there's more to it than the Freedom Trail in Fenway Park.
0:17.2	There's a start on your underbelly to the city, and Boston Confidential will take you on a guided tour of the dark side of the Athens of America, Boston, Massachusetts.
0:27.6	Hey, everybody, welcome back to Boston Confidential. My name's Barry McGuire, and I'm your host. I'm a 20-year private investigator on the streets of Boston, and I help run a company called Impact Due Diligence Investigations.
0:41.7	If you need anything in terms of investigative services,
0:45.1	feel free to contact me at Impact.
0:47.5	If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.
0:52.5	All right, guys, let's get to it.
0:55.6	You're going to have to jump back into the way back machine with me again here today, all the way
1:00.8	back to 1989, the latter half of 1989.
1:05.1	This case is the case of Charles Stewart, but maybe it should be entitled Carol D'Amady Stewart because she was the actual
1:12.9	victim here, and so was her son, Christopher. But this case almost destroyed the city of Boston
1:19.4	in terms of racial relations. But I'll get to all that, guys. Let me tell you a little bit about
1:26.2	Carol D'Amity Stewart. She was born in Medford, Massachusetts, which is a working class, blue collar suburb of Boston, just north of Boston by about 10, 15 miles or so.
1:39.3	And she went to Catholic school, St. James School. And she was a great student at St. James.
1:47.2	She was such a great student that she was admitted to Boston College. And she graduated from
1:52.7	BC in 1981. So Carol had to have been a terrific student to get into Boston College. Very difficult. She graduated in 81,
2:03.7	like I said, and then went on to law school at Suffolk Law, located in downtown Boston.
2:09.4	She graduated from Suffolk in 1986. So Carol D'Amady was a high achiever, even from a young age,
2:17.4	to go from a working class Italian family in Medford to Boston College and then on to Suffolk law means she's at the top of her game.
2:29.1	And after graduation from Suffolk, she went on to be a tax attorney for a publishing house called,
2:36.9	I know I'm going to mispronounce this, Connors, C-A-H-N-E-R-S, publishing. And they're a publishing
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