Nazish Noorani. slain. and the chuck stuart case.

[Lady Cop]

A 26-year-old East Boston man and his lover stand accused of hatching a heartless scheme to kill the man’s wife, wound him and claim the shocking shooting was racially-charged — a horrific murder-for-hire plot that calls to mind the notorious Charles Stuart case. (which i will never forget. )

NJ still has the death penalty, however, it has not had an execution since 1976.




Kashif Parvaiz



Antionette Stephen



murdered: Nazish with her two sons, aged five and three. The youngest witnessed the horror.



In court: Antoinette Stephen stands behind a partition during her arraignment on a fugitive from justice charge.




Mourners carry a casket with the body of Nazish Noorani toward a hearse during her funeral services.



Mourning: Lubana Tanbeer, left, is comforted by her relative Razia Zaib while attending a candlelight vigil for Tanbeer's sister Nazish Noorani








The husband of a young Muslim woman killed in New Jersey while out walking with him and their three-year-old son planned her murder in a series of chilling text messages, it has been claimed.

Kashif Parvaiz, 26, who has been charged after admitting he was involved in the killing of his wife Nazish Noorani, also 26, sent a series of messages to his alleged lover and gunwoman, Antoinette Stephen, which chart their movements in the hours before the attack.


Mrs Moorani was killed just three blocks from her sister's house in the heavily Pakistani area of Boonton on Tuesday evening. The shooting left Parvaiz with four superficial gunshot wounds but he survived. The young boy, who was found covered in his parents' blood, was unhurt.

[JsMom]

What a sick man. His wife was beautiful.

What is with the girlfriend?

[Lady Cop]

This time, police see perfect picture of evil

By Peter Gelzinis August 20, 2011 Boston Herald

We had seen this evil before.

It hardly matters that Kashif Parvaiz was just 4 years old when Chuck Stuart decided to end his marriage by firing a bullet through the head of his pregnant wife, Carol, shooting himself in the abdomen . . . while blaming all on a “black man.”

Since that September night on Mission Hill in 1989, Stuart’s epic malevolence has become a tragic part of our cultural landscape.

Kashif Parvaiz’s alleged plot to get out of his marriage by having his wife, Nazish Noorani, murdered Tuesday night in a New Jersey suburb during an orchestrated attack in which he was also wounded, looks like an eerie piece of deja vu.

Indeed, there would appear to be a lot of Chuck Stuart in Kashif Parvaiz. Like Stuart, Parvaiz also told the cops that a “black man” was among the attackers who killed his wife and shot him.

And, yes, the police in Boonton, N.J., immediately launched a search for these phantom murderers, just as Boston police tore through Mission Hill in the aftermath of Chuck’s heinous lie.

But fortunately, here is where the similarity between Kashif Parvaiz and Chuck Stuart ends. Unlike what happened in Boston, it took only a couple of days for Morris County prosecutor Robert A. Bianchi to issue the following statement:

“After considerable investigative analysis, law enforcement quickly concluded that this was not a bias crime.

“This was sadly the alleged handiwork of the victim’s husband, who allegedly did the unthinkable and plotted to murder his wife . . .”

Two days.

Newman Flanagan, who was Suffolk DA at the time of the Stuart case, didn’t arrive at that conclusion until months later, when Stuart threw himself off the Tobin Bridge.

And trust me when I tell you, Flanagan still couldn’t believe it.

Not until Stuart killed himself was this city ready to let go of the “Camelot couple” myth that adorned the doomed Stuart marriage.

We wanted so much to buy the notion that a handsome young fur salesman and his devoted, expectant wife were set upon by a mayhem-minded thug after taking a wrong turn into a “bad” neighborhood.

We would learn that the only evil person in Mission Hill that night was Chuck Stuart, who staged the murder, and his dim-witted brother, Matthew, who disposed of the gun Chuck used on Carol and himself.

A key part of Chuck Stuart’s diabolical scheme was to exploit Boston’s raw nerve of race. The soothing that came to this city was delivered by the proud grieving and graceful family of Carol DiMaiti Stuart. They converted their heartache into scholarships for Mission Hill children.

But that is only part of the legacy of the Stuart case. When one half of a picture-perfect couple meets with sudden violence and death, cops, mindful of his deception, are no longer quick to rule out the husband.

Those cops in New Jersey did not make a ghastly situation worse by up-ending an innocent neighborhood.

In that, they perhaps unknowingly borrowed something good from the twisted saga of Chuck Stuart.


chuck and 9-month pregnant Carol. the baby lived a couple days. :(

[Lady Cop]

Kashif Pervaiz had told his wife Nazish that he was moving to Boston to get a doctorate from Harvard. But records show he lived in East Boston, and never attended Harvard.



NYDaily News

He had her at hello.

Doomed mom Nazish Noorani met her future husband - and now accused killer - Kashif Parvaiz at a Pakistani festival in Brooklyn six years ago, a grieving cousin told the Daily News Friday.

"It was love at first sight for her," the cousin said of Noorani, who was buried Friday. "She seemed so happy. This guy began showering her with all these gifts. Gold bracelets. New cars. She thought it was a fairy tale."

Noorani's relatives were suspicious.

"We are all so protective of each other," said the cousin, who asked not to be identified. So the family met with Parvaiz at a Dunkin' Donuts near their homes in Boonton, N.J.

"We asked him what he does, where he has lived, how he is going to provide for my cousin," the cousin said.

An "evasive" Parvaiz told them he attended NYU, but couldn't produce an ID. "We knew he was full of it," the cousin said.

The next day, the cousin said, Parvaiz emailed them a photograph of his purported NYU identification card. It was a fake.

The cousin said he told Noorani Parvaiz was a fraud, but she refused to listen.

"She said, 'I'm going to marry him come hell or high water,'" the cousin said. "We found out later [they were] already married."

Noorani's family insisted on a proper ceremony at the Knights of Columbus hall across from her parents' house in Boonton - near where she was gunned down Tuesday night.

When Parvaiz moved to Boston last year - he said he was getting a doctorate from Harvard - Noorani stayed in Flatbush to raise their two young sons.

Noorani found out Parvaiz was cheating on her three months ago, when she found a MySpace photo of him with another woman, the cousin said.

"Kashif told her that he lived in a dorm room at Harvard," the cousin said. Parvaiz was really living in East Boston; there's no record he attended the Ivy League school.

[Lady Cop]

OMG. i just was remembering the chuck stuart case in this thread recently, and now this. he couldn't live with the guilt anymore i think. he took part in Carol's murder (thinking it was just an insurance robbery scam) , and then turned his brother in. sad sad sad all around. the chuck stuart case will never be forgotten in Boston. see post #3. i wonder if this Noorani case triggered something in him.




Boston Herald 9/3/11
Matthew F. Stuart, the lone survivor of one of the most infamous domestic murder mysteries in the city’s history, is dead at age 45, authorities confirmed this morning.

Stuart’s body was discovered at 2 a.m. yesterday at Heading Home, a sober emergency shelter in Cambridge. It was unclear how long he had been staying there. The cause of his death was pending an autopsy.

Stuart was a key player in covering up the Oct. 23, 1989, slayings of his pregnant sister-in-law attorney Carol DiMaiti Stuart and her unborn son Christopher at the hands of his big brother Charles “Chuck” Stuart, who on Jan. 4, 1990, fell to his death from the Tobin Bridge after Matthew turned himself into the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office. Charles Stuart was 30 years old.

Dan Riviello, a spokesman for the Cambridge Police Department, confirmed Stuart was dead, that his family had been notified and that the Office of the Medical Examiner has custody of the body.

Cara O’Brien, a spokeswoman for the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, said investigators were called to the shelter at 2 a.m. yesterday, where the body of a 45-year-old man had been found. O’Brien did not refer to Stuart by name.

“It doesn’t appear to be suspicious or involve foul play,” she said.

Wendy Jacobs, Heading Home’s deputy executive director, said of Stuart’s passing, “It’s absolutely tragic.”

Jacobs said the shelter, whose mission is to end homelessness, houses up to 21 people per night in a dormitory style “small, home-like environment” and would have provided Stuart breakfast and dinner. For him to even be staying there, she said, required him to be an active participant in getting back on his feet.

“Our staff would have been helping him develop a plan to overcome barriers to end his homelessness and help facilitate the process,” she said. “I don’t know where he was in that plan.”

Stuart served nearly three years in prison after pleading guilty in 1992 to obstruction of justice and conspiracy to commit insurance fraud for disposing of the handgun Charles Stuart used to shoot his wife in the head on Mission Hill after the Reading couple left a birthing class at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Charles Stuart, a manager for Kakas Furs on Newbury Street, suffered a life-threatening gunshot to the gut as part of the ruse, blaming the shootings on a black robber, nearly igniting a race war in Boston as police tried to track down the phantom man who’d destroyed a white, suburban family.

In fact, Matthew Stuart had thrown the murder weapon and his sister-in-laws wedding ring into the Pines River in Revere, where he and his brother grew up. The gun and valuables were later recovered.

Stuart was on probation when, in 1997, he was arrested in Revere on suspicion of dealing cocaine. The charge was later dropped for lack of evidence.

[Lady Cop]

the terrible destruction of a family.

Boston Globe 9/3/11



CAMBRIDGE - Matthew Stuart, who confessed to helping his brother, Charles, cover up the fatal shooting of his pregnant wife in one of Boston’s most notorious crimes, was found dead early yesterday morning in a Central Square homeless shelter.

Stuart, 45, was found dead shortly after 1 a.m. at the Heading Home shelter on School Street, according to two law enforcement officials with knowledge of the case, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.

Stuart was the younger brother of Charles Stuart, whose infamous killing of his wife, Carol DiMaiti Stuart, in their car on Mission Hill more than two decades ago, roiled Boston and inflamed racial tensions.

A spokeswoman for Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone confirmed that a 45-year-old man was found dead at the shelter, but declined to release his name because the death was not being investigated as suspicious.

“It does not appear to be suspicious or involve foul play,’’ said Cara O’Brien, a spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office.

O’Brien would not elaborate, saying the office does not provide names or additional details on cases of nonsuspicious deaths.

The law enforcement officials also did not say how Stuart died. An autopsy will be conducted by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

According to one of the law enforcement officials, Stuart was found unresponsive in a bathroom at the shelter and declared dead at the scene.

His body was taken away by officials from the medical examiner’s office.

A sister from Revere was notified as Stuart’s next of kin, according to one of the officials. No one answered at an address in Revere.

At an address for another relative in Marblehead, a man who answered the door refused to comment.

At the shelter yesterday, a house unmarked by a sign, two employees declined to comment, citing residents’ privacy.

“We have no comment,’’ said one worker.

“We respect the privacy of our residents.’’

Heading Home provides emergency shelter, housing, and supportive services to more than 2,000 homeless and low-income people in multiple locations yearly, according to its website.

It was unclear how long Stuart, who had experienced drug problems, had been staying in the shelter or why he was there.

Matthew Stuart’s public notoriety began with a killing that gripped Boston.

On the night of Oct. 23, 1989, a wounded Charles Stuart, then 29, told police that he and his pregnant 33-year-old wife had been robbed and shot by a black man in Mission Hill as they left a childbirth class at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

As part of his cover-up, he had shot himself in the abdomen. Their baby, Christopher, died 17 days later.

The shootings drew sympathy for Charles Stuart and exposed racial divides in Boston.

Police combed the city, looking for the shooter before focusing on a black man named Willie Bennett.

But the case fell apart as Matthew Stuart confessed that he had helped his brother dispose of the weapon and jewelry from his sister-in-law on the night of the killing.

Before he had to face police, Charles Stuart jumped off the Tobin Bridge to his death on Jan. 4, 1990.

Two years later, Matthew Stuart accepted a deal and pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy, insurance fraud, and possession of a firearm, in exchange for three to five years in prison.

Matthew Stuart, then 26, apologized to his sister-in-law’s family in a tearful courtroom address.

“I am truly sorry, and hope that my actions today will help heal some of the pain of this horrible tragedy,’’ he said.

After his release in 1995, he was soon arrested again by Revere police on drug charges.

He was sent back to prison, but his lawyer at the time, Martin Rosenthal, appealed to the Supreme Judicial Court, and prosecutors later dropped the pending drug charges.

In 1997, Judge Vieri Volterra formally ended Stuart’s probation, ruling that the evidence was not strong enough to consider him in violation of probation.