In the more than 150 year history of Major League Baseball, only one player has ever been murdered during a season.
That player is Lyman “Wesley” Bostock Jr, a budding star for the Angels in the 70's, who was murdered by a man who whose court case would result in a stunning verdict.
In an 8-part series, Tom Rinaldi explores Lyman's improbable life, his tragic death, and the miscarriage of justic...
Bostock spent part of his childhood in Gary, Indiana--the murder capital of the United States. The city helped shape Bostock, and with his family ties there, its grip lasted throughout his life…with tragic result.
Bostock’s other home was California. His first week in college in the San Fernando Valley, he meets his future wife, Youvene. And in his first semester there, his role in a student prot...
We make the drive with Youvene to Inglewood Park Cemetery, to return to Lyman’s grave. She hadn’t allowed herself to visit in more years than she could remember, as she tries to reconcile his loss, and her memories of their time together.
We hear from those Wesley touched, as they consider his life and its legacy.
We also return to Gary to see what became of the man who killed Leonard Smith and ...
Leonard Smith, the man who admitted to killing Lyman Bostock in a jealous rage, a man arrested more than half a dozen times, receives the jury’s verdict. The decision stuns the courtroom, and the country. And leads to thoughts of vengeance.
Years after the verdict, we tried to find Smith, to ask him about his life after the murder. He was living back in Gary, 6 blocks from where he killed Bostock...