On Thursday, police in the Rhode Island community where Nathan Carman and his mother set sail Sept. 17 said they are working with federal law enforcement, along with authorities in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, to investigate the circumstances of Linda Carmans disappearance.
Also Thursday night, Middletown, Conn., police Sgt. Dave Fuchs confirmed that officers had searched Linda Carmans home earlier in the evening. Fuchs had no information about what, if anything, police recovered or why the search was conducted.
The April 2011 fight between Linda Carman and her father, at Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital in Hartford, erupted when Chakalos offered a job to Carmans unemployed husband, Earle Clark Carman, he told police. When Carman refused, Chakalos told the couple he would no longer support them, and sai
Chakalos said Linda Carman began yelling profanities, blocked the waiting room doorway when he tried to leave the room, then repeatedly punched him in the head and scratched his face and kicked him. When Carmans husband tried to pull her off, she struck him in the mouth, according to the report.
Klein said he was contacted again by Linda Carman after Chakalos was shot to death in his Windsor, Conn., home in December 2013. She sought his advice because police had questioned her and her son about the slaying and wanted her to take a polygraph. He said he advised against it, but she took it a