DEAD IN THE WATER—David J. Farrell, Jr.

DEAD IN THE WATER—David J. Farrell, Jr.

From True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History by Dan Zupansky

April 6, 2026 · 1h 2m

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The episode explores Nathan Carman's alleged crimes and the investigation into his mother's disappearance and grandfather's murder.

The gripping inside story of Nathan Carman’s crimes from the maritime lawyer who solved his multimillionaire mother’s disappearance at sea and his even wealthier grandfather’s shooting death in bed. When Nathan and Linda Carman were a week overdue on a fishing trip out of Point Judith, Rhode Island, few thought they would still be alive. Even the Coast Guard had called off its search. So it seemed miraculous when Nathan was spotted—on a life raft, 106 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard—by the Chinese freighter ORIENT LUCKY. But was it more than luck? Nathan survived but his mother did not. Then news broke that Nathan was the primary suspect in his grandfather’s murder three years before, though the case chilled from a missing firearm. The last person to see both victims alive, twenty-two-year-old Nathan was now in line for a $10 million inheritance! Or was Nathan, evidently on the Autism spectrum, plain unlucky to have lost the only two people close to him? As he claimed on national TV, was the focus on him as the “the lowest hanging fruit” just prejudice? With no witnesses, no charges in his grandfather’s shooting, and no body for his mother lost at sea, both cases might have gone…

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Host: Dan Zupansky

Guest: David J. Farrell, Jr.

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Organizations: Coast Guard

Places: Point Judith, Rhode Island, Martha’s Vineyard

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