MURDER IN BOSTON. The True Story of a Dream Marriage that Ended in Nightmare

Paperback. Boston, October 1989, Charles Stuart's call for help made to police on his car phone, was the beginning of a murder investigation that would stun a nation. His beautiful wife, 7 months pregnant, lay dying beside him, Stuart himself was seriously wounded. Stuart's story of an unknown assailant shooting the couple led to an outpouring of grief and sympathy from every quarter - the whole of America was incensed by the apparently gratuitous act of violence. But it was a deadly hoax. Three months after Carol's death, Stuart found that the police were about to arrest him for murder. That night he apparently leapt to his death in the Mystic River. He left a family in agony and a city in racial conflict. But what kind of monster hid behind the charming smile of Charles Stuart? Why have the police and the press been so unwilling to release vital information about the double murder or Stuart's alleged suicide? The first book on this notorious case. Illus. 269pp. mass market p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned pp. + faded sp. and partially faded fr. cover, but appears unread with absolutely no creasing. Vg+