Premiere: Netflix’s new true crime doc dives into a mother’s mysterious disappearance

The victim’s sister She called it “a great Greek tragedy” — and she meant it.

In September 2016, Nathan Carman set out on a fishing boat with his mother near Block Island. A few days later, a freighter spotted Nathan on a lifeboat off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. He was saved. His mother, Linda, has not been found.

This is how a story begins Carman Family ObituariesNetflix’s latest true crime documentary, based on the 2021 WIRED feature by director Evan Lubowski. Karman was, according to his father, “the first-born grandson of a Greek dynasty,” and when questions began to arise after his rescue, suspicions arose that what happened at sea was not what he claimed.

Carman’s grandfather, Linda’s father, had been shot to death several years earlier and there was a lot of money at stake. In the weeks following Carman’s rescue, the story made headlines as investigators tried to understand what happened. Some thought Carman’s version of events didn’t make sense, but his defenders pointed to the fact that he had autism spectrum disorder and could often be misunderstood.

In 2022, nearly a year after WIRED published its story on the Carman family, Nathan Carman was accused of murdering his mother in an alleged attempt to inherit his family’s vast estate.

Directed by Yoon Motzkin, who directed the documentary about the UFO sighting Encounters, Carman Family Obituaries It is produced by Jesus camp Directors Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing, Mary Jane Mitchell and WIRED Studios. The film arrives on Netflix on November 19. Watch the first trailer for the documentary below and Read more here.