And before it was too late, I wanted to take a record of what people remembered. The first time I really had an experience telling someone what had happened was in the documentary class, where I felt I was coming out of the fog, out of the shock and drug addiction. 30, 2010, I came back to school - I was in film school when it happened - I didn’t tell anyone.
When my mom died, I was a drug addict, I was addicted to opioids, I ran from accepting the world without her. Madison Hamburg: When I started the doc, I didn’t have it in my head that this was going to be on the stage that it was on. TheWrap: When did you first decide you wanted to do a documentary about something so personal? Read TheWrap’s Q&A with the filmmaker and son below.
The first episode of “Murder on Middle Beach” airs on Sunday on HBO. I think I held onto regret for not being a better son, and this has provided me a second opportunity to do so.” “Her thoughts about her body, if she’d be in a relationship again, if I would land on my feet, if we ever got along. “The story revolves around me looking for answers, but I couldn’t help but feel an intense amount of sadness, the little things of sadness that she was going through that I didn’t know,” he told TheWrap. The case remains unsolved today.Īs the docuseries progresses, Madison Hamburg discovers things about his mother that he previously had not known, as well as complicated family dynamics, all while trying to eliminate suspects in his family.Īlso Read: 'Murder on Middle Beach': Son Investigates His Mother's 2010 Murder in HBO Doc (Video) While the lines were often blurred between being an unbiased journalist and a grieving son, he learned a lot about his family, and Hamburg says he feels like he got a second chance at being a better son through the making of his documentary series.īarbara Hamburg was murdered in 2010 in Madison, Connecticut, and found outside of her home by her sister, Conway Beach, and her daughter, Ali. HBO’s “Murder on Middle Beach” focuses on a filmmaker, Madison Hamburg, who is trying to find answers to his mother’s unsolved murder 10 years ago. It’s really…exciting is a weird word for it, but I guess that’s how I feel.” So, fans expect more ‘Murder on Middle Beach’ episodes in the future if Barbara’s case gets solved, or there is some major development in the case.(Spoiler Alert: The story below contains spoilers about HBO’s “Murder on Middle Beach”) This kind of opens the investigation up in a new way, in a new chapter. In conversation with E Online, Madison said that he can’t “get into details with what’s to come.” However, he added, “There’s certainly more to the story. As of now, ‘Murder on Middle Beach’ has not been renewed by HBO for a season 2. Madison is yet to discover who killed his mother and why, but if he does, and if he decides to film that process as well, there is no reason why a season 2 may not be possible. Since October 2020, he and his team, having complete possession of the files, are going through every last piece of the documents in an attempt to get a breakthrough, hopefully. Subsequently, Madison filed a successful Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to access the police files on Barbara’s homicide. Apparently, they’d found their main suspect just days after her death, but as they couldn’t find any concrete evidence against them, the matter just fizzled out. In the fourth and final episode, though, things took a turn as Madison realized that the police were looking at Barbara’s case as a cold case. Then, Madison interrogated the two women closest to his mother – Barbara’s sister, Conway Beach, and Madison’s sister, Ali Hamburg. The next thing that was delved into was the Gifting Tables and the possibility that Barbara could have been a victim of an angry member who felt wronged about being dragged into the scheme.
Even though the pair divorced in 2002, their legal battles were ongoing as Jeffrey claimed that he could not afford to pay child support or alimony. The first suspect, of course, was Barbara’s ex-husband, Jeffrey Hamburg, with whom she was scheduled to meet in court on the day she died. Madison also talked to the investigators who were handling his mother’s case and took a look at the handful of suspects that he knew could have a role in her death. Throughout these four episodes, Madison Hamburg, and us, learned the truth about the life Barbara Hamburg really lived – that she was a recovering alcoholic who, at the time of her death, was a part of a pyramid scheme known as the Gifting Tables. ‘Murder on Middle Beach’ season 1 premiered on November 15, 2020, on HBO, and concluded with its fourth and final episode – ‘Reasonable Doubts’ – on December 6, 2020. Murder on Middle Beach Season 2 Release Date
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