This podcast is insanely good and also unbelievably awful. Trigger warning for some grim stuff about child sexual abuse and murder.
Oh, and if you're a fan of Harry Connick Jr. you might not love what we learn about his daddy. (Probably mostly not news to many.)
The Boston Globe produced this excellent podcast in 2023. The murder of Carol Stuart in 1989 is an inflection point in American history and those who were adults at the time remember it well. But I fear it is all too forgotten today.
The podcast is superb--as good as the podcasts we regularly name here as the best, like Bear Brook and Cold. For those who don't know the story, let's avoid spoilers. On the Boston Globe website, in addition to the audio podcast, there's also a collection of relevant photos.
As the podcast points out in the first episode, the context of this crime is important: >!the crack epidemic, the Central Park jogger case, and a history in Boston of deep racial violence - with white people throwing rocks and smashing windows of school buses full of Black children. Think about that. !<