What Happened to Nathan Carman? Updates on Carman Family Murder Case

Netflix’s 2025 true crime documentary The Carman Family Deaths plays out like a real-life Greek tragedy. Director Yon Motskin’s film opens with the miraculous rescue of Nathan Carman after eight days lost at sea, but slowly unravels a troubling family feud that may have culminated with the murders of both Nathan’s mother, Linda Carman, and his grandfather, John Chakalos. In 2013, millionaire real estate developer Chakalos was murdered in a suspected break-in at his Windsor, Connecticut, home, with his grandson Nathan named as the last known person to see him alive. Three years later, Nathan an