‘Murder in Boston’ Filmmaker: Infamous 1989 Murder Was Fueled by City’s ‘Fraught Racial History’

With “Murder in Boston,” Jason Hehir examines how the 1989 murder of Carol Stuart — a pregnant white woman whose wounded husband falsely claimed that a Black man had shot them both — played out in a city that had seen violent clashes between white and Black communities. Hehir’s previous HBO docuseries work includes the Emmy-winning Michael Jordan doc, “The Last Dance.”

While some detectives and reporters doubted Chuck Stuart’s story at the time, the police and the media focused their...