HARTFORD, Conn. — Nathan Carman, who was rescued at sea after what he called a freak boating accident in 2016 that took his mother’s life, was accused by federal authorities in Vermont Tuesday of killing her and his grandfather in a cold-blooded scheme to increase his share of a family inheritance.
The U.S. Attorney’s office in Vermont released an indictment that charges Carman had been scheming since 2012 to increase his share of the fortune his grandfather, John Chakalos, intended to leave to his daughters and their designees upon his death. Chakalos was a nursing home developer who had homes in Windsor and Chesterfield, New Hampshire.
The indictment accuses Carman of shooting his grandfather to death as he slept in his home in Windsor on Dec. 20, 2013, after persuading his grandfather to put hundreds of thousands of dollars in two bank accounts in his name.
