Ep. - 848 - MURDER IN BOSTON: ROOTS, RAMPAGE AND RECKONING
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.7 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Jodi Weber joins Kate to discuss the HBO original docuseries Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage and Reckoning. The three-part series follows the Murder of Carol Stuart, and the investigation that followed, igniting racial tensions and targeting.
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| 0:24.0 | Welcome back for another episode of reality life with K Casey. |
| 0:28.0 | This episode is all about an HBO original three-part documentary series called Murder in Boston, Roots, Rampage, and Reckoning. |
| 0:38.1 | On October 23rd, 1989, Charles Chuck Stewart places a frantic 911 call and he's reporting that he and his pregnant |
| 0:47.1 | wife Carol, a white couple, had been shot by a black man in Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood. The ensuing investigation proved to be a |
| 0:55.8 | lightning rod for the city, igniting decades old racial tensions and brutal targeting |
| 1:01.5 | amidst a media firestorm. |
| 1:03.4 | After Carol succumbed to her injuries that night, |
| 1:06.5 | Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn declared a citywide manhunt for the killer. |
| 1:10.8 | When Carol and Chuck's baby also died just days after being |
| 1:14.8 | born, the homicides were thrust further into the spotlight as the mostly black |
| 1:20.2 | and Latino residents of Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood suffered aggressive raids, |
| 1:25.6 | stop and frisk searches, and some questionable police tactics, the already fraught relationship |
| 1:31.8 | between the residents and Boston police disintegrated. |
| 1:35.0 | Fan by the media uproar and simmering tensions and with skepticism from the black community and some members of the press about the veracity of Chuck Stewart's story, |
| 1:45.2 | the police faced increasing pressure to solve the case and Boston was |
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