341: The Real Story Behind Netflix’s Nathan Carman and The Family Murders
Serialously with Annie Elise
Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios
4.7 • 10.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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When 22-year-old Nathan Carman was miraculously “found” after a week lost at sea, his survival made headlines. But as investigators took a closer look, questions about his too-perfect rescue, and the disappearance of his mother during that same trip, quickly spiraled into something far darker. With a murdered grandfather, a sinking boat, a massive inheritance, and a suspect who insisted he was innocent, the Carman family tragedy only grows more twisted the deeper you go…
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| 0:00.0 | The ocean carries a lot of secrets. |
| 0:02.0 | Rescued at sea after his mother disappeared in what seemed to be a freak boating accident. |
| 0:07.0 | He says he expected sympathy, but what he got was a police investigation. |
| 0:11.0 | It looked like an inspiring tale of survival, a young man missing for seven days. |
| 0:17.0 | Nathan Carman was found floating on a life raft in the ocean. |
| 0:21.0 | Boats don't just drop out from under you the way he described. The lack of things that were done. |
| 0:26.6 | Raised questions. The Coast Guard had been calming hundreds of miles of ocean in vain, looking for Nathan |
| 0:32.7 | Carmen and his mother Linda. I love my mother. Present tense. I love my mother. So why are people so suspicious about what exactly happened to Nathan's mother, Linda? Hey, true crime besties. Welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly. |
| 1:15.2 | Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly. |
| 1:22.0 | With me, your true crime bestie, Annie Elis, and I'm here to break down a freaking wild and kind of controversial case, actually. |
| 1:24.4 | Now, this one has been on my radar for several months, and we started researching it |
| 1:29.1 | weeks and weeks, actually months ago when it first came on our radar. And recently, I saw that a |
| 1:35.4 | documentary dropped on Netflix. And I love Netflix. No bad blood. I love you guys. I love you, |
| 1:41.0 | all of you at Netflix. But I will say that sometimes, as I understand, |
| 1:45.0 | whether it's Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, they are more careful as to what they include in their documentaries or docu-series, whether it's for, you know, for legality issues, time constraints, whatever it may be. And we had started researching this, like I said, a couple of months ago, or, you know, at least at least a couple of months ago at this point. |
| 2:02.7 | And there were just so many details that I was kind of like, hmm, you know, like, why, not why did you leave that out, but like, why didn't you explain this more in depth? And I was planning on releasing this episode originally later in December, but I decided to like rapid speed moving up because when I saw that |
| 2:19.9 | this documentary came out, I was like, no, no, I want people to hear about this now. I want people |
| 2:24.2 | to hear this full version and the way I tell it now because like I said, it is pretty controversial |
| 2:30.0 | and I'm curious what you guys think about it. Because today's case, it's one that has tons of |
| 2:36.1 | twists and turns that it's honestly going to have you guessing if you didn't watch that documentary. |
| 2:41.1 | It's going to have you guessing until the very end. It's one that to this very day, it has mystery in it, |
| 2:47.0 | despite a thorough investigation surrounding it, and countless of theories from both law |
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