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Nathan Carman went out fishing with his mother Linda Carman on Sept. 17, 2016 on his boat Chicken Pox

All contact was lost with Nathan and Linda just a few hours later, and the Coast Guard launched a massive search with no luck. But on Sept. 25, 2016, Nathan was found at sea.

His mother Linda drowned, he said, but soon he became a suspect in both her murder and the 2013 shooting death of his grandfather, John Chakalos

Linda Carman didn’t particularly like fishing. But she loved her only child, Nathan Carman, and their boating trips on Rhode Island’s Block Island Sound were rare occasions when their normally tense relationship eased for a few hours. Just before midnight on Sept. 17, 2016, the pair were seen leaving a marina in South Kingstown, R.I., in Nathan’s boat Chicke

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