In October of 2016, about a month after he was plucked from a life raft after a week at sea,

Nathan Carmen walked into the private memorial service he'd organized to honor his mother, Linda Carmen.

Linda had been on Nathan's fishing boat when it sank, and though Nathan apparently survived the freak accident, Linda or her body were never recovered.

Authorities deemed the amount of time and conditions out there in the open ocean beyond the point of survivability, and so she was presumed dead.

As such, Nathan wanted to honor his mother.

Notably missing from the private service, though,

were Linda Carmen's three sisters,

Valerie Santilly, Elaine Shockless, and Charlene Gallagher.

It was publicly obvious that something wasn't right.

The relationship between Nathan Carmen and his aunts was not a good one.

Soon it would be abundantly clear how and what the aunts thought about their nephew.

They believed he was a murderer, driven by greed for

the family fortune. If you haven't already, begin with parts one and 2 of this story.

They're out right now.

I'm Kylie Lowe, and this is Part 3

of a three-part mini-series covering the cases of John Shockless and Linda Carmen on Dark Down East. According to a will filed in the probate division of New Hampshire's 8th Circuit Court,

the estate of John Shockless was worth more than $42 million.

It was left to his four daughters when he was killed

by way of the Chocolus Family Dynasty trust.

This trust would distribute John's assets

to the individual trusts in each of his four daughters names.

Among the financial assets were pieces of property that John owned, including his estate in Westchester Field, New Hampshire.

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