On October 23, 1989, Charles Stuart places a frantic 911 call reporting that he and his pregnant wife — a white couple — have been shot by a Black man. The ensuing investigation ignites decades-old tensions and brutal racial profiling amidst a media firestorm and skepticism about Stuart's story. The three-part docuseries Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning chronicles the complex history of race-based hostilities in the city and how the rush to justice brutalized a community.
Murder In Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning, an HBO Original Documentary Series in association with The Boston Globe, explores the enduring, painful toll the 1989 Stuart case had on those involved, Boston race relations, and how a community can be affected in a rush to justice.
