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Note: This episode contains descriptions of violence and suicide and may not be appropriate for all listeners.\\xa0

In 1989, Chuck Stuart called 911 on his car phone to report a shooting.\\xa0

He said he and his wife were leaving a birthing class at a Boston hospital when a man forced him to drive into the mixed-race Mission Hill neighborhood and shot them both. Stuart\\u2019s wife, Carol, was seven months pregnant. She would die that night, hours after her son was delivered by cesarean section, and days later, her son would die, too.

Stuart said he saw the man who did it: a Black man in a tracksuit.\\xa0

Within hours, the killing had the city in a panic, and Boston police were tearing through Mission Hill looking for a suspect. \\xa0

For a whole generation of Black men in Mission Hill who were subjected to frisks and strip searches, this investigation shaped their relationship with police. And it changed the way Boston viewed itself when the story took a dramatic turn and the true killer was revealed.

This week on Reveal, in partnership with columnist Adrian Walker of The Boston Globe and the \\u201cMurder in Boston\\u201d podcast, we bring you the untold story of the Stuart murder: one that exposed truths about race and crime that few White people in power wanted to confront. \\xa0

To hear more of The Boston Globe\\u2019s investigation, listen to the 10-part podcast \\u201cMurder in Boston.\\u201d The HBO documentary series \\u201cMurder in Boston: Roots, Rampage, and Reckoning\\u201d is available to stream on Max.\\xa0

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