Crime & Safety
Boston Pays $150,000 Settlement To Men Wrongfully Suspected In 1989 Stuart Murder
"It haunts me everywhere I go," Swanson told WBZ-TV, adding that he was left homeless as a result of being wrongly connected to the crime.
September 24, 2025
Boston is paying a total of $150,000 to two men who were wrongly suspected in the 1989 Charles and Carol Stuart case.
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Willie Bennett was paid $100,000, while Alan Swanson received $50,000. In Dec. 2023, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu formally apologized to both men.
Charles Stuart had claimed that a Black man shot him and his pregnant wife as they left a birthing class at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Carol and her unborn child were killed, but Stuart survived a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
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Swanson was arrested and jailed for three weeks in the murder of Carol Stuart after Charles Stuart said a Black man shot and killed her/CBS Boston
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