Learn about Boston’s 1990 Charles Stuart murder case, and the accusations of racial profiling by investigators and public officials who targeted Boston’s Mission Hill neighborhood, in this video composed of archival news footage from GBH records. Activist ministers Don Muhammad and Graylan Hagler express their anger at police investigators and public officials, whom they think ignored vital information in the investigation. Muhammad and Hagler extend blame to media reporters, whom the leaders say were too easily taken in by “the dreadful hoax” perpetrated by the actual killer, the murdered woman’s husband.

This video is primary source footage and is presented as originally recorded.