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Stuart was also protected by the enormity of his crime. Statistics show that almost a third of all women who are murdered are killed by their husbands or boyfriends. Yet the mind recoils from the notion, from the all but inhuman possibility, that a man would slaughter his pregnant wife and unborn child, whose birth he had been preparing for in childbirth class only minutes earlier...
...emerged. Carol once confided to Maureen Vadjic, who sometimes jogged with her on Saturday mornings, that she objected to Charles' staying out late on Friday nights. Says Vadjic: "She'd tell me, 'He came home late last night. I yelled at him, why do you go out? I'm pregnant. Don't you have any concern...
Because he was white and affluent, Charles Stuart nearly got away with killing his pregnant wife. -- Why the press canonizes certain victims. -- The racial hysteria Stuart ignited fuels black fears that whites are plotting genocide...
...newscasts. But journalists rarely restrict their accounts to the sordid, unadorned facts. If the victims of such incidents are sufficiently wealthy, virtuous or beautiful, they are often turned into martyred saints in the epic battle between good and bad. Thus the spectacle of a wounded husband, with a dying pregnant wife at his side, desperately calling for help in a reputedly dangerous Boston neighborhood, inevitably set editors' pulses racing...
...standard for journalistic hagiography was set in 1932 with the kidnaping and later killing of Charles Lindbergh's infant son. Lindbergh was already a bona fide hero, so the media concentrated on canonizing his family: the faithful and pregnant wife; the child who was "a golden-haired replica of his famous father"; Lindbergh's "visibly distraught" mother, who, despite her suffering, persisted in teaching chemistry at a high school in Detroit...