He had identified a suspect in a lineup; he had involved his own brothers in his coverup; he failed to confess his guilt even in his suicide note. (“Shoddy,” says then-Boston Herald reporter Michelle Caruso , still penitent about her own failure to crack what she regards as an obvious case.) (Mr. Severino and TV reporter Jack Harper help reconstruct the search for Stuart’s car, which was accomplished by triangulating emergency sirens over police radios; it is electrifying.) Stuart claimed the killer fled into the nearby Mission Hill housing project. From that moment, says activist and Mission Hill resident Ron Bell , “it was open season on black people.”

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