Netflix’s 2025 true crime documentary The Carman Family Deaths explores a long-running feud that may have contributed to the deaths of three members of one Connecticut family.

Director Yon Motskin takes a deep dive into the circumstances surrounding the brutal 2013 murder of Greek-American real estate magnate John Chakalos and his daughter Linda Carman’s mysterious disappearance at sea three years later in the film, which released on the stream in November 2025.

Linda’s son, Nathan Carman, was indicted for both of their deaths in 2022 but died by suicide in prison while awaiting trial. (Nathan denied killing his mother and grandfather.)

One of Nathan’s biggest defenders in The Carman Family Deaths is his father, Clark Carman, who dismisses the indictment against his son as “baseless.” I

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