The episode is an excerpt from a review or promotional piece for a new Netflix true-crime documentary titled The Carman Family Deaths, which chronicles the complicated case of Nathan Carman. The narrative details how Nathan was found alive on a life raft eight days after his fishing boat, the Chicken Pox, sank off Martha’s Vineyard, leading to the presumed death of his mother, Linda Carman, whose body was never recovered. Investigators quickly grew suspicious due to evidence suggesting Nathan had deliberately sabotaged the boat and lied about the timeline of the sinking, which morphed the missing-person case into a federal murder indictment. The episode further explains that the case was linked to the unsolved 2013 homicide of Nathan's wealthy grandfather, John Chakalos, whose death would have increased Nathan's substantial inheritance upon his mother's demise. Ultimately, the documentary explores the unresolved questions surrounding the case and Nathan's psychology—particularly his placement on the autism spectrum—after he died by suicide in his jail cell before his trial.
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