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For the past seven years, all my calls to him have been from one-way consent states. In regard to conversations with my dad, my production team had lengthy discussions about consent states. Without knowing the laws in particular states about consent to record conversations, how was it that you were able to use all those recorded conversations in the series?

At the end of day, if I don’t solve this, was I just creating a path of destruction? With my sister and her, there is a light at the end of the tunnel for their relationship, which I was really concerned about. Out of anyone, I was most worried about my aunt, Conway, and she’s in a really good place now. What has the progress been like for mending family relations? So, I think what I’m doing is necessary, and I think “good” and “bad” are too binary for how complex humanity is.Ĭonway Beach, Murder on Middle Beach. I haven’t talked to my dad in depth about the documentary yet. All of them are in a good place, outside of my dad. I had family screenings for all four episodes before they came out, which for me was mandatory, and we had conversations around how they come across, the questions that they are asked and the things that are said about them. A big part of that was seeing how my family was going to react to how they’re portrayed. I think what weighed on me was that I am not the gauger of that. There’s no way around that.ĭo you have that answer now? Is it good that you did this? These are family members, this is my life, this is my mother’s story, and it’s airing publicly, exposing vulnerabilities. The biggest challenge I’ve dealt with and had to ask myself throughout the making of this is whether I’m doing good. There’s been a lot of good news and response to the story. Madison Hamburg: Lately, I’ve been relieved. “Because, you know, I love my family and it is unconditional, but it’s really hard when a loved one is murdered and it’s unresolved and it’s done in a way that leaves a small percentage chance that it could have been done by a loved one.Observer: First, I want to ask, genuinely, how are you? And you have to do it to elicit an honest, truthful answer out of them because this may be your only chance to exonerate people and … resolve some of the lingering distrust,’” Hamburg said. And you have to do it for their sake and your sake, bluntly. Hamburg recounted how his crew pressed him to ask, saying, ‘If we’re going to do this again, this might be your only opportunity to ask that question. That question was something he posed to several close relatives after he had been working on the documentary for years and realized they needed to be given a chance to express their innocence. The project forced Hamburg to ask the toughest question he could possibly ask a loved one: “Did you kill Mom?” It also delves into potential suspects, including several of Hamburg’s own family members. The genre-busting four-episode documentary is largely told from Hamburg’s perspective and explores how his mother’s death impacted him and his family. “We turned in a trailer - or a teaser - and my professor basically made me promise to never stop working on it and he gave me an A in return,” Hamburg said recently from his home in Brooklyn. When it was time to turn in the project, Hamburg wasn’t finished. Each interview he conducted only led to more questions and possibilities. “I decided to start navigating this journey into understanding who she was and why the murder might have happened,” said Hamburg, who began uncovering a side of his mother’s life he never knew about. It was just three years after the March 2010 killing, and Hamburg was recovering from a drug addiction and still reeling from his mother’s violent end.

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Hamburg began filming the series in college as part of a school project. His directorial debut, “Murder on Middle Beach,” premieres on HBO Max on Sunday. Now 29, Hamburg has directed a nail-biting and hauntingly personal documentary series about his mother Barbara’s murder, which remains unsolved. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Madison Hamburg was 18 years old when he got the call from his sister: Their mother had been stabbed and bludgeoned to death outside her home in the affluent southeastern Connecticut town of Madison.

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