The City of Boston has paid a total of $150,000 to two men who were wrongfully accused in the high-profile murder of Carol Stuart — a case that shocked the nation and fanned racial tensions across the city.
Mayor Michelle Wu’s office authorized payments of $100,000 to Willie Bennett and $50,000 to Alan Swanson, documents obtained by Boston 25 News show.
Carol Stuart, a 29-year-old pregnant white woman, was shot and killed in what her husband, Charles “Chuck” Stuart, claimed was a carjacking by an armed Black man who forced his way into their car as the couple left a birthing class at a city hospital on Oct. 23, 1989…