Dead in the Water

The gripping inside story of Nathan Carman’s crimes from the maritime lawyer who solved his multi-millionaire mother’s disappearance at sea and his even wealthier grandfather’s murder.

When Nathan and Linda Carman were a week overdue from 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 wealthy grandfather’s murder three years before, though the case chilled from lack of evidence. The last person to see both victims alive? Twenty-two-year-old Nathan, who was now in line for an $11 million inheritance!

Or was Nathan, apparently on the autism spectrum, plain unlucky to have lost the only two people close to him? As he claimed on national TV, was the media’s focus on him as the “the lowest hanging fruit” just a mistake?

With no witnesses, no charges in his grandfather’s shooting, and no body for his mother lost at sea, the case might have also gone cold…except that Nathan made a claim for his lost boat. Enter David J. Farrell, Jr., attorney for the insurance company, who suspects Nathan’s evil and greedy plans. With the claim, he can depose Nathan…with a mind to expose his murderous intentions with enough evidence for Nathan to go to trial in federal court.

Follow the author, David J. Farrell, Jr., as his team dissects Nathan’s final voyage, presents exclusive testimony, and assembles evidence from around the world. In Dead in the Water, you’ll pull up a seat inside the trial to see if Nathan’s dream of drifting away with millions of dollars comes true.