CT - John Chakalos, 87, Windsor, 20 December 2013 *Grandson arrested in 2022, found dead in 2023*

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New Theory About Millionaire Grandfather's Death In Nathan Carman Case Revolves Around 25-Year-Old 'Mistress Y'

October 22, 2018

"Lawyers for Nathan Carman are offering an alternative theory in the murder of his 87-year-old grandfather, John Chakalos, that involves a 25-year-old woman who they say spent the weekend with Chakalos at a Connecticut casino just days before his death.

In court documents filed in Rhode Island, federal court attorney David Anderson seeks to interview a woman referred to as “Mistress Y” about the weekend she spent with Chakalos at Mohegan Sun, the $3,500 he gave her for breast enhancement surgery, and a 19-minute phone call she had with Chakalos on the night of the murder just as Nathan Carman was leaving his grandfather’s Windsor home....

The new documents allege that “Mistress Y” worked for a company that managed an apartment complex in Keene, N.H., owned by Chakalos. The documents claim that Chakalos routinely gave her as much as $800 every time they met.

The Courant has made several attempts to reach “Mistress Y” but she has been unavailable for comment.

Boston attorney Dan Small who is representing the three aunts released a statement Monday about the new court documents, calling them shameful...."

New Theory About Millionaire Grandfather's Death In Nathan Carman Case Revolves Around 25-Year-Old 'Mistress Y'
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Talk of grandfather's mistress called a 'shameful attack' in Carman case

October 22. 2018

"...Carman, the main suspect in the murder of Keene native John Chakalos, raised the suspicion in paperwork that his lawyer filed in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island. The court is one of three courts that is holding civil proceedings related to Carman and Chakalos’ murder. It has also ordered Carman to produce a rifle he purchased in New Hampshire that could be involved in the murder.

“Nathan’s shameful attack on his grandfather today shows there is no depth to which he will not sink to avoid producing his gun, which is the probable murder weapon,” said Washington lawyer Dan Small, who represents the Chakalos heirs. In the filing, Carman asked a judge to grant him time to interview “Mistress Y” and quotes police reports that describe her as an “attractive 25-year-old” who lived in New Hampshire and met Chakalos through her job. ...

Carman asked the Rhode Island judge to also let him depose the lead plaintiff in the New Hampshire case, his aunt Valerie Santilli. Carman said she had a stronger motive to murder Chakalos.

Small said Carman is trying to cast blame on his own aunt, even though she willingly took and passed a police lie detector test. Carman has refused to take a lie detector test, Small said.

“Every day that passes in these legal proceedings shows even more clearly that Nathan’s behavior is calculated, evasive, and ultimately, guilty,” he said."

Talk of grandfather's mistress called a 'shameful attack' in Carman case | New Hampshire
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Nathan Carman lawyer airs dirty laundry
Judge OKs deposition of ‘Mistress Y’

October 26, 2018

"Nathan Carman's lawyer has been give the green light by a federal judge to depose a Connecticut woman police reports indicate accepted $3,500 from his slain 87-year-old grandfather for breast augmentation surgery in exchange for her companionship.

The woman, who police said was in her mid-20s on Dec. 19, 2013, when millionaire John Chakalos was shot to death with a rifle in his Windsor, Conn., home, is referred to as “Mistress Y” in court documents filed by Carman's lawyer David F. Anderson in U.S. District Court of Rhode Island.

A copy of a Windsor Police Department report on a detective's interview with the woman included with Carman’s papers was redacted to protect her identity as a prospective witness....."

Nathan Carman lawyer airs dirty laundry
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The Boston Globe
November 8 at 8:31 AM ·
Nathan Carman, suspected of killing his wealthy grandfather and mother in a scheme to collect an inheritance, wrote a “curious letter” to the person who rescued him after his boat sank in 2016.


Can't read the article without a subscription, so found this instead:

In Letters To Captain, Nathan Carman Laments Likely Loss Of Mother

"In two handwritten letters to the captain of the freighter that pulled him from the Atlantic Ocean, Nathan Carman wrote that he feared his mother is lost and there is no one in his life who will welcome him.

"If my mom is lost, which I fear is likely, I will have no one on Earth who will welcome me sincerely into their home," Nathan Carman wrote to Capt. Zhao Hengdong of the Orient Lucky.

"So I appreciate the efforts you and your crew have made to make your ship a home to me while I have been aboard," he wrote while the freighter traveled to Boston from the spot 100 miles south of Martha's Vineyard where Carman was found in a raft....
The second letter is a rambling, seven paragraphs that deals with Carman's thoughts about God. In one instance he compared God to being like "land when you are on a ship at sea, from your vantage you cannot see him yet not believing in him does not make him any less real."

He also appears to reference his loss and future.

"When the world takes everything from you, there are several ways in which you can respond," Carman wrote. "The best way is to use the experience as an opportunity to see and be grateful for what you do have and what you are given."..."

In Letters To Captain, Nathan Carman Laments Likely Loss Of Mother
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Attorneys fight over police report in Carman case

November 26, 2018

"PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Attorneys in Nathan Carman's suit to collect insurance money for the Chicken Pox, his boat that sank Sept. 18, 2016, presumably with his mother on board, continue to spar over document production.

"To set the record straight, [Carman's attorney] is beating a dead horse," wrote David J. Farrell, of Farrell Smith O'Connell, who is representing the insurance companies that denied Carman's $85,000 claim for his boat. In denying his claims, the insurance companies contend that repairs Carman made to the boat before he and his mother left Rams Point Marina in Rhode Island caused the boat to sink.

"Defendant's meritless swipes at opposing counsel, and worse at the Court, on tangential issues are thinly veiled attempts to divert attention as the evidence comes crashing in on him ..." Farrell wrote in a fifth motion to compel Carman to turn over the Windsor, Conn., Police Department investigation file on the 2013 murder of John Chakalos, Carman's grandfather.

That report was filed under seal in New Hampshire Probate Court in a separate proceeding in which Carman's three aunts have filed a so-called slayer petition alleging that Carman killed his grandfather and was responsible for the death of his mother, Linda Carman.

Though Chakalos was murdered at his home in Windsor, his estate has been tied up in Probate Court because he also had a home in Chesterfield, N.H., where he spent a majority of his time. Carman's aunts want to prevent him from inheriting any portion of the estate, which is estimated to be above $30 million.

Farrell had originally applied to the Windsor Police Department for the 20,000-page report, but rescinded that request when the Probate Court issued an order allowing release of all documents in the estate case for use in the Rhode Island insurance case. Farrell noted he needs Carman and his attorney to produce those documents, which they have yet to do. Farrell has requested the same documents from attorneys representing Carman's aunts. Carman, a resident of Vernon, Vt., is representing himself in the N.H. Probate Court and David Anderson is representing him in the Rhode Island case.

In the motion to fight the request for the documents, Anderson wrote that most of the documents "are not relevant" to the Rhode Island case. Anderson also contended that though the court previously ruled the documents were relevant, the ruling was based upon "false and misleading information" provided by Farrell..."

Attorneys fight over police report in Carman case
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Judge will decide if Nathan Carman violated order when sharing Windsor police investigation into grandfather's death

December 4,2018

"A New Hampshire judge will decide this week whether Nathan Carman violated a protective order when he made public Windsor police investigative records, which revealed Carman’s grandfather had spoken to a woman on the phone the night he was shot to death in 2013....

At the end of a nearly three-hour hearing Tuesday, Probate Court Judge David K. King ruled that any discovery documents in the case, including nearly 22,000 pages of Windsor police’s investigative records, would be sealed for now...

Carman and five other attorneys met with King behind closed doors to discuss medical and education records that opposing counsel originally made public.

Attorney William Satterly, representing Carman’s aunts, said Carman violated King’s January protective order when portions of the Windsor police investigative records were made public as part of a different legal case in Rhode Island — the effort by an insurance company to fight paying off Carman’s $85,000 policy on his boat.

Satterly said his law firm told Windsor police their investigative records would remain confidential under King’s protective order when the department provided roughly 22,000 pages of their investigation. Those records were also provided to Carman....

Chakalos’ acquaintance, known in court documents as ‘Mistress Y,’ is said to have been having an affair with John Chakalos and had spoken to Chakalos on the night he was killed. A Boston-based attorney representing the unnamed mistress attended Tuesday’s hearing and filed paperwork to intervene on the New Hampshire case, as well as a motion to seal those police records from public view."

Judge will decide if Nathan Carman violated order when sharing Windsor police investigation into grandfather's death
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Lawyers for man issue subpoena for alleged mistress of slain grandfather (with clip)
Nathan Carman trying to link woman to his grandfather’s 2013 death

Dec 13, 2010

"MANCHESTER, N.H. —
Lawyers for a man whose relatives died under mysterious circumstances have issued a subpoena for an alleged mistress of his slain grandfather.

Nathan Carman’s lawyers have issued a subpoena to a woman identified only as "Mistress Y" and "Ms. Y" -- alleging she was in a sex-for-cash relationship with Carman's millionaire grandfather, John Chakalos, 87...."

Lawyers for man issue subpoena for alleged mistress of slain grandfather
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New Hampshire judge in Nathan Carman case rebukes attorneys, accusing them of trying to take advantage of him

DEC 21, 2018

"In a stinging 37-page ruling Friday, a New Hampshire probate judge refused to sanction Nathan Carman for revealing confidential records and instead accused lawyers for his three aunts of trying to take advantage of the fact he is representing himself in a legal fight over Carman’s access to a $7 million inheritance.

Judge David K. King’s ruling followed a hearing last month where the lawyers -- Dan Small and William Satterly -- sought to have Carman sanctioned for revealing Windsor police department documents in a separate case in a Rhode Island federal court. King made it clear that he believes there is a pattern of the attorneys “attempting to take advantage'' of the fact that Carmen is representing himself in court....

In Friday’s ruling, King wrote that "there have been a number of pleadings filed by petitioner’s counsels that are without merit such that one may question whether counsels are attempting to take advantage of Mr. Carman’s pro se status and lack of legal training.''...

King said the attempt to file Carman’s medical records without a seal is just the latest in a series of “uncivilized, bordering on unethical conduct that has resulted in a tremendous waste of judicial resources as additional hearings have needed to be scheduled and additional orders issued.”

To show his displeasure with the lawyers, King refused to grant attorney Ralph T. Lepore III status in the case. Carmen’s aunts had sought to add Lepore to their legal team.

Small had asked that Lepore be granted status in New Hampshire in order to assist with the trial that is still slated to begin on Jan. 22. It is normally a routine request that judge’s quickly grant but King denied Lepore’s application and made it clear he was close to revoking Small’s as well...."

New Hampshire judge in Nathan Carman case rebukes attorneys, accusing them of trying to take advantage of him - Hartford Courant
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New Hampshire judge postpones start of Nathan Carman trial after his aunts replace their attorney

JAN 11, 2019

"In the latest twist in the saga of a former Connecticut man at the center of two death investigations, a New Hampshire probate court trial was delayed Friday after three sisters accusing nephew Nathan Carman of murdering their father and sister replaced their Boston attorneys and asked the judge for a postponement.

Friday’s development precedes what is expected to be yet another twist next week, when a West Hartford probate judge is set to authorize that $150,000 be allocated to Carman so that he can hire an attorney in the New Hampshire case....

...On Friday, at what was supposed to be a pre-trial hearing in New Hampshire, Carman told King that he didn’t want to postpone the start of the trial and would rather represent himself than delay the case “that has taken up the last five years of my life.”

“If I have to go to trial naked so to speak than I’d rather do it myself than hire someone who can just talk fancy,” Carman told King. "I don’t care anymore. My reputation is shot and it is never going to be recovered.'

But King admonished Carman, telling him that he needs an attorney and that he was going to grant the postponement to be fair to his aunts.

“My strong inclination is to postpone the start of the trial and quite frankly you have the most to gain by that Mr. Carman. You need a lawyer in this case and now that you are able to get one I would strongly recommend that you do so,” King said...

Carman also is fighting with the insurance company in federal court in Rhode Island over his $85,000 claim for his boat, the Chicken Pox, which he was piloting when it sank in 2016 with his mother on board...."

New Hampshire judge postpones start of Nathan Carman trial after his aunts replace their attorney - Hartford Courant
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Probate judge rules Nathan Carman can have money to hire attorney, pay more than $30,000 in credit card bills

JAN 24, 2019

"A West Hartford probate judge has approved allotting Nathan Carman at least $125,000 from a trust fund established by his slain grandfather to hire an attorney to represent him in a legal fight with his aunts.

Owen Eagan also agreed Carman can use the trust to pay off more than $30,000 in credit card debt....

Killian also ordered that Carman be given a $1,000 monthly stipend starting Feb. 1. He also made it clear that there’d be no more money awarded and he found that Santilli had done nothing wrong while administering the trust fund.

"I would be disinclined to reimburse any additional credit card debts or increase the stipend without a significant change in circumstances,” Killian wrote, adding only if the New Hampshire case runs “amok” would he consider appropriating more money.

King hasn’t set a date for when the trial will begin...."

Probate judge rules Nathan Carman can have money to hire attorney, pay more than $30,000 in credit card bills - Hartford Courant
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Judge allows evidence Nathan Carman inheritance fight into boat insurance case

January 29, 2019

"PROVIDENCE -- A federal magistrate judge is allowing evidence from a New Hampshire case accusing Nathan Carman of slaying his mother and grandfather to be used in insurance companies’ legal quest to deny Carman’s claim for a sunken boat.

U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Patricia A. Sullivan on Tuesday agreed to allow Carman’s testimony from a New Hampshire case challenging his right to an $11-million inheritance to be used in the court battle over whether insurance companies must pay his $85,000 claim for the 31-foot aluminum Chicken Pox. That boat sank in September 2016 after it departed Ram Point Marina. While Carman was rescued a week later on a life raft, his mother, Linda, was never seen again and is presumed dead....

Sullivan on Tuesday allowed boat insurers -- National Liability & Fire Insurance Co. and the Boat Owners Association of The United States -- to get Carman’s sworn statements in that case as well as a Windsor, Conn., police investigation into the unsolved shooting death of his real estate developer grandfather, John Chakalos.

Sullivan, too, allowed the insurers to argue a “single scheme theory,” namely that the deaths of Chakalos and Linda Carman, the sinking of the boat and the disappearance of key evidence, such as the gun and the boat are all linked are evidence of Carman’s fraud. They allege that it was Carman who made faulty repairs that caused the boat to take on water and then failed to call for help."

Judge allows evidence Nathan Carman inheritance fight into boat insurance case

RI - Linda Carman, 54, Point Judith, 18 Sept 2016
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New Hampshire judge sets new trial date in Nathan Carman case

FEB 14, 2019

"The trial pitting Nathan Carman against his three aunts, who are accusing him of killing his grandfather and his mother in a quest for money, is now set to begin in June.

Following a telephone conference call with the new lawyers for both sides, Probate Judge David King on Thursday set aside from June 10 to July 12 for the trial. King had reluctantly postponed the trial last month after the three sisters suddenly wanted to replace their Boston attorney and Carman got $150,000 from a trust fund to hire his own attorney....

Carman wasn’t involved in Thursday’s telephone conference, which included his new attorney — Cathy Green in Concord — and the three sisters’ new attorney, Michael Connolly. The next pre-trial hearing is scheduled for March 15....

Mistress Y has been deposed in the New Hampshire case and is expected to be called as a witness. Attorneys representing her have filed to intervene in the New Hampshire case in anticipation of that testimony."

New Hampshire judge sets new trial date in Nathan Carman case
 
Insurers Seek to Deny Boat Owner’s Claim in Rhode Island Case

February 18, 2019

"The National Liability & Fire Insurance Co. and the Boat Owners Association of the United States are suing a Vermont man in federal court in Rhode Island and are seeking to deny his claim on an $85,000 policy for his boat after it sank near Cape Cod, Mass., during a 2016 trip with his mother...

The two insurance companies argued that criminal wrongdoing bars Carman’s insurance claim, as he allegedly made faulty repairs to the boat the day before it sank and knew it was unseaworthy, according to the Associated Press.

Carman has previously said he believed his boat was safe....

In a separate action, The AP reported Carman’s family filed a lawsuit in New Hampshire accusing him of killing his mother as well as his grandfather years earlier to collect an inheritance.

In the New Hampshire lawsuit, Carman is accused of being responsible for the 2013 shooting death of his 87-year-old grandfather, John Chakalos, a nursing home administrator and real estate developer, according to the AP.

The National Liability & Fire Insurance Co. has suggested that Carman may have thrown the gun used to kill his grandfather into the ocean....

In a Jan. 29, 2019, hearing, The Providence Journal reported that U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Patricia A. Sullivan agreed to allow Carman’s testimony from the New Hampshire case to be used in court proceedings over whether Carman’s insurance claim on his boat must be paid.

Sullivan allowed National Liability & Fire Insurance Co. and the Boat Owners Association of The United States to receive Carman’s sworn statements in that case as well as a Windsor, Conn., police investigation into the unsolved shooting death of Chakalos, the Providence Journal reported.

Carman has denied claims of wrongdoing and has never been charged with the death of his mother or grandfather...."

Insurers Seek to Deny Boat Owner's Claim in Rhode Island Case
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Vermonter accused of killing grandfather for money to be tried in June

Feb 19, 2019

"A probate court trial of Nathan Carman, the Vermont man accused of killing his millionaire grandfather for inheritance money, is now scheduled for June.

Carman's New Hampshire trial initially was scheduled in January . He has denied any role in his grandfather's shooting death in Connecticut in 2013. It's now scheduled to start June 10 and is expected to take three to four weeks...."

Vermonter accused of killing grandfather for money to be tried in June
 
20/20 Lost at Sea: The Story of Nathan Carman

Mar 9, 2017

 
Dead Wake
When rescuers found Nathan Carman after seven days at sea, his mother had vanished without a trace. But his past was about to resurface.

"Shortly after 11 p.m. on a warm Saturday in September 2016, 22-year-old Nathan Carman and his mother, Linda, untied their boat, the Chicken Pox, and set out for a night of fishing. They motored south through a salt-marsh pond off Narragansett Bay, past clapboard beach houses, lobster shacks, and rust-worn fishing trawlers, all painted by the light of a full moon. When they reached the edge of the inlet, they slipped through a narrow breachway into open water, and the Chicken Pox’s 300-horsepower engine roared to life. Minutes later, the candy-colored lights of the Rhode Island shoreline faded behind them.

Before leaving, Linda had texted a family friend that she and Nathan would be back by morning. But when they hadn’t returned by Sunday evening, the friend alerted the Coast Guard. Ships, helicopters, and planes immediately began scouring 82,000 square miles of ocean but found no sign of them. Around the docks and on maritime message boards, New England boaters shared theories about what had happened. Had the Chicken Pox collided with some unsurveyed shoal? Or suffered a catastrophic hull failure? Or encountered a massive rogue wave? People who had seen the boat before Nathan and Linda left said it was in good shape, and it was equipped with an emergency transmitter that could send a distress signal and location directly to the Coast Guard. How, in the age of GPS, had a vessel like the Chicken Pox vanished without a trace?..."

A Son Took His Mother Out Fishing. She Never Came Back.
 
Judge writes possible end to years-long Spofford Hall saga

Mar 20, 2019

"SPOFFORD — The long, strange legal saga of the former Spofford Hall property could be nearing an end.

In December, a judge decided to let stand a zoning variance allowing the parcel — the site of a rehab center that’s been vacant since it closed in the 1990s — to become a five-home subdivision.

The Chesterfield selectmen had mounted a court challenge to the zoning board’s 2014 decision granting the variance.

The late developer John C. Chakalos conceived Spofford Hall as an upscale rehabilitation facility. Built in 1981, according to town property records, the building sprawls across tens of thousands of square feet and has frontage on Spofford Lake.

Chakalos was shot dead in his Windsor, Conn., home in December 2013. Though no one was charged in the murder, three of Chakalos’ daughters have brought a much-publicized lawsuit in New Hampshire accusing their nephew, Nathan Carman, of the killing. Carman denies involvement in his grandfather’s death.

Chakalos also had a home in West Chesterfield.

The Chakalos family still owns the Spofford Hall property, via a company called Nine A LLC.

The rehab center shut down in the early 1990s. The family later tried for years, unsuccessfully, to sell the mold-infested facility to other institutions, according to the December order...."

Judge writes possible end to years-long Spofford Hall saga
 
Carman hires crack NH legal team in family fight over murdered millionaire grandfather's estate

Mar 26, 2019

"CONCORD — Nathan Carman, who will have to answer allegations in probate court this summer that he murdered his millionaire grandfather, has assembled a crack legal team — all members of one of the most prominent law firms in New Hampshire, Shaheen Gordon....

In last week’s order, Judge King also set the dates for what he anticipates will be an 18-day bench trial. It is scheduled to begin June 10 and run daily until July 12, with a one-week break that includes the Independence Day holiday...."

Carman hires crack NH legal team in family fight over murdered millionaire grandfather's estate
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