Premiere: Netflix’s New True Crime Doc Dives Into a Mother’s Mysterious Disappearance

The victim’s sister called it “one big Greek tragedy”—and she meant it.

In September 2016, Nathan Carman took off in a fishing boat with his mother near Block Island. A few days later, a freighter spotted Nathan on a life raft off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. He was rescued. His mother, Linda, was never found.

Such begins the story of The Carman Family Deaths, Netflix’s latest true crime documentary, based on a 2021 WIRED feature by Evan Lubofsky. Carman was, according to his father, the…