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but his intestines were so badly damaged that he was in intensive care for 5 five weeks and had a colostomy bag for the foreseeable future.
When he was well enough to speak with police, Chuck provided quite a detailed description considering the circumstances. He said the man
was brown-skinned, brown eyed between twenty-eight and thirty-four years old, five feet ten inches tall, and thin, weighing only 150 to 160 pounds… high cheekbones, a bony jaw and was covered with a patchy beard, a “medium Nubian” nose, and he wore his hair in a short afro.355
He further divulged that the man’s voice was quite distinguishing and he was “wearing a dark shirt covered by a black sweatsuit. The sweatsuit jacket had two or three red stripes on the sleeve… a black baseball-style hat and black driving gloves with the knuckles cut out.”356
Only days later, Carol Stuart died of her injuries. Chuck, still in intensive care, penned a eulogy to his slain wife, that made even the clergy cry. Fifteen days after the death of his mother, baby Christopher dies. Shortly thereafter, a suspect was arrested in the murders of Carol and Christopher Stuart, and the shooting of Chuck Stuart. Although he was identified by Chuck Stuart as looking most like the person who did the robbery and shootings, Willie Bennett, was not arrested for the killings/shootings, but oddly only for a video store robbery.357 Witnesses, by this time, were communicating to police that Chuck and one of his brothers were involved in the case. As the pieces of the puzzle begin to unfold, Chuck’s brother
355 Ken Englade, Murder in Boston, St. Martins Paperbacks, New York, 1990.
356 Ibid.
357 Bennett had reportedly bragged to relatives that he had robbed the Stuarts. Gary Alan Fine and Patricia A. Turner, Whispers on the Color Line, Rumor and Race in America, University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 2001.
Object Description
| Title | An argument for the criminal hoax |
| Author | Pellegrini, Laura A. |
| Author email | user1963@yahoo.com; teachpolsci@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Political Science |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-08-20 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-10-13 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Renteln, Alison Dundes |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Wong, Janelle S. Newland, Chester A. |
| Abstract | Hoaxes are part of the fabric of history. While many provide humor and lighthearted joy, the criminal hoax does not. To date, researchers have included aspects of the criminal hoax in larger academic works. This is an original typology that sets forth the criminal hoax as a distinct part of the larger field of law and public policy. This work provides newly created definitions including four distinct categories of hoaxes: the monetary hoax, the attention getter hoax, the hate crime hoax and the racial hoax. It further illustrates these types with actual detailed accounts of hoaxes and provides insights to each one. It makes policy recommendations concerning the four categories of needs: 1. legislative action, 2. a nationwide statistical database of hoax events, 3. media involvement, and 4. law enforcement training and action to deal with criminal hoaxes. Finally, it recommends further research to identify the causes and motivations of vipers. The ultimate goal of this project is to find ways to eliminate criminal hoaxes. |
| Keyword | criminal hoax; hoax categories |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1659 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Pellegrini, Laura A. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Pellegrini-2397 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Pellegrini-2397.pdf |
Description
| Title | Page 130 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 124 but his intestines were so badly damaged that he was in intensive care for 5 five weeks and had a colostomy bag for the foreseeable future. When he was well enough to speak with police, Chuck provided quite a detailed description considering the circumstances. He said the man was brown-skinned, brown eyed between twenty-eight and thirty-four years old, five feet ten inches tall, and thin, weighing only 150 to 160 pounds… high cheekbones, a bony jaw and was covered with a patchy beard, a “medium Nubian” nose, and he wore his hair in a short afro.355 He further divulged that the man’s voice was quite distinguishing and he was “wearing a dark shirt covered by a black sweatsuit. The sweatsuit jacket had two or three red stripes on the sleeve… a black baseball-style hat and black driving gloves with the knuckles cut out.”356 Only days later, Carol Stuart died of her injuries. Chuck, still in intensive care, penned a eulogy to his slain wife, that made even the clergy cry. Fifteen days after the death of his mother, baby Christopher dies. Shortly thereafter, a suspect was arrested in the murders of Carol and Christopher Stuart, and the shooting of Chuck Stuart. Although he was identified by Chuck Stuart as looking most like the person who did the robbery and shootings, Willie Bennett, was not arrested for the killings/shootings, but oddly only for a video store robbery.357 Witnesses, by this time, were communicating to police that Chuck and one of his brothers were involved in the case. As the pieces of the puzzle begin to unfold, Chuck’s brother 355 Ken Englade, Murder in Boston, St. Martins Paperbacks, New York, 1990. 356 Ibid. 357 Bennett had reportedly bragged to relatives that he had robbed the Stuarts. Gary Alan Fine and Patricia A. Turner, Whispers on the Color Line, Rumor and Race in America, University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 2001. |
