True Crime Stories

It has been over twenty-five years since this case turned the city of Boston Massachusetts upside down and sadly it seems like they learned nothing.  This case initially brought disruption to the city for one reason but in the end the disruption it caused was for another reason and the ramifications have never seemed to go away. On the night of October 23, 1989 Charles Stuart and his wife, Carol, who was seven months pregnant with their first child, had just left a birthing class when initially according to Charles they had gotten lost.  He would then say that while sitting at a light in what was considered to be a "seedy" side of town a black man had carjacked them, forced them to drive away, robbed them and then shot them.  Carol had been struck in the head while Charles was shot in the stomach.  Still wounded Charles would say he drove away when the perpetrator left and he called 9-1-1 from his car phone.  Yes, 1989 and he car phone, a rarity in those days ...

To date I have published 186 blogs and while I have referenced Susan Smith several times I have never been able to bring myself to do this case.  I believe that is for a variety of reasons.  For one, cases that involve children are often difficult for me to sit and research and compile together but that has not stopped me as I have told several stories involving children here, and nearly all of them are heartbreaking stories in their own way.  I could say that I have not done this one because the story just angers me so much, but I have to say that the one case that spurred my anger the most was the Casey Anthony case and yet I have told that story here.  No, I believe the reason that I have never been able to tell this case is because of the impact it made on me when it occurred in 1994.  At the time I was 22 years old, just one year younger than Susan Smith. I was married with two young boys.  While Susan's sons were three years old and 14 months at the t...