Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. I'm in awe of my sister. In one example, Justice Steven Ecker asked Dugas about the competing interest of uncovering police corruption or incompetence. Ashlie D. Stevens is Salon's deputy food editor. Like I really didn't want to create caricatures of my family members. [1] Contents 1 Production 2 Episodes 3 Reception 4 References Production [ edit] The documentary series began as a student film while Hamburg was in college. The Connecticut Supreme Court will decide whether the Madison Police Department must release records compiled in its investigation of the 12-year-old unsolved murder of Barbara Hamburg. Madison police have not yet filed a brief outlining the grounds of their appeal with the Appellate Court, and attempts to reach the department this past week were unsuccessful. The court has attempted to resolve a long unsettled question about the degree of certainty concerning a prospective law enforcement action that is required to withhold records. At the time of her death, Beach Hamburg had primary custody of Madison and Ali, while their father received visitation rights. Madisons mother, Barbara Beach Hamburg, before her 2010 murder. The Connecticut Supreme Court will decide whether the Madison Police Department must release records compiled in its investigation of the 12-year-old unsolved murder of Barbara Hamburg. On March 3, 2010, Barbara Beach Hamburg, 48, was found murdered in the backyard of her Madison, Connecticut, home. "Thank God that HBO saw the potential and the rest is history.". In 2010, Barbara Beach Hamburg was found bludgeoned in her yard next to the golf course in Madison, Connecticut. While their outing is filmed from a hotel window across the street from the bar, Madison prods his father on details about his marriage to Madisons late mother. But it's been tough watching this go week to week and having breaks in between where people on the internet can react to my family. Hamburg, for his part, said Beach Hamburg was behind on mortgage payments for their property . You can watch the trailer below. The matter now is in the hands of the Connecticut Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments Wednesday. It's really interesting. Retracing the path of controversial Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe includes many stops in Connecticut. According to her own accounts, after Ali chose to live with her father, Jeffrey Hamburg, he became "super controlling" and implanted "a lot of fear" in her. Back in 2010, in Madison, Connecticut, a quiet town on the shoreline, on the serene Middle Beach West, a crime occurred that shook the community to its core - Barbara Hamburg's murder. That was mandatory to me, I wanted everybody to see how they come across and have a conversation about it to prepare them for what it's gonna be like when we release this thing. In October of 2019, Anike Neimeyer, the producer of Murder on Middle Beach, submitted a FOI request to the Madison Police Department on behalf of herself and Madison Hamburg requesting records of the case. Not looking into my mom's story would be the biggest regret of my life, so I don't know that I would do anything differently. Seeking a way out of making those payments or seeing the inside of a jail cell could allegedly have been a motive for Jeffrey to kill Barbara. As the pyramid scheme required a $5,000 "gift" to join, the thinking goes that Barbara could have recruited someone to the tables who couldn't actually afford to make such a payment. In 2022 Otte was awarded "Rookie of the Year," by the New England Newspaper & Press Association. Conways Facebook page includes recent photos with them all, implying that despite her rocky past, she currently has a good and healthy relationship with them. 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Schulz said that the plaintiffs would be thrilled if the police were able to solve the crime, but he said that this wasnt a reason to keep a case open forever. The department did turn over two full boxes of documents to Hamburg and Niemeyer in October 2020, but the filmmakers alerted investigators in early November that dozens of files were apparently missing from those records. There's already inherent bias from my point of view. However, later in the documentary, director Madison Hamburg Barbara's son and Ali's brother obtains school records that corroborate Ali's alibi of being at school at the time of the murder. Schulz echoed the judges world, noting that his clients planned to use the information as part of a documentary. Would I even do this if I teleported back eight years and said, you started this documentary, here are the sacrifices that you and your family are gonna make but here's what you have to gain. I started the project in a documentary film class. Dec. 10, 2020 HBO The HBO true crime documentary series Murder on Middle Beach has reached its conclusion, without any grand reveal regarding who killed Barbara Hamburg. But the Freedom of Information Commission has argued that police failed to prove the case was active enough to warrant withholding the file or that the investigation was heading toward an arrest. In addition to the Beach family, Hamburg makes several appearances in the series as well although he's never formally interviewed. Directed by Barbara's son, Madison Hamburg, the docuseries is a chronicle of Madison's return to his home as he is determined to understand . In the series, Madison does some digging and is able to obtain school records that show Barbara did indeed drop Ali off at school on the morning of her death, confirming Ali's alibi and eliminating her as a suspect. Madison Hamburg and producer Anike Niemeyer had requested the files while filming the series and were summarily denied by the department. It is difficult to understand how denying public access to criminal files in perpetuity serves the public interest in solving crimes and bringing perpetrators to justice, wrote Judge Daniel Klau in his decision. It was a. But as she admitted, Conway unsuccessfully tried to get revenge and hire a hitman to kill the Hamburgs. Schulz said the department had provided two boxes of information about the case, but that they were still missing key documents, including witness statements, notes, computer records and telephone records. Alex Murdaugh Faces Life In Prison For Allegedly Killing His Wife & Son, Heres What Happened To Riley In 'The Last Of Us' Video Game, Twitter Is Losing It Over Succession Ending With Season 4, Everything To Know About 'And Just Like That' Season 2, Get Even More From Bustle Sign Up For The Newsletter. What were the reactions of Ali and Conway like? CORRECTION: An earlier version of this incorrectly statedAli Hamburg was diagnosed with bipolar disorder; she had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Murder on Middle Beach is a four-part documentary by director Madison Hamburg about the unsolved 2010 murder of his mother Barbara Hamburg. Klau reviewed the case and found in August that the police department cannot use the mere theoretical possibility of a future law enforcement action to keep the investigative files secret but conceded there is little precedent for how investigators or the FOIC should determine what constitutes such a future action. The last time I talked to my dad was on camera. So many people had the opportunity, the motive, the means. June 3, 2021 8:00AM. The department denied the request, citing a portion of the state Freedom of Information Act exempting certain law enforcement records from release if the disclosure of such records would not be in the public interest because it would result in the disclosure of information to be used in a prospective law enforcement action if prejudicial to such action.. Drumm said in the meeting that, along with the request from Madison Hamburg and Neimeyer, the department had received three other requests from media outlets from the other coast for the full case files. Weeks of back-and-forth ensued as the show premiered on HBO. Opening the file and turning the pages without acting on the file is not evidence the file is going to be used in a prospective law enforcement action, Harmon said. It is more than a reasonable possibility, pun intended, that the Connecticut Appellate or Supreme Court will review this decision. On March 3, 2010, Barbara was found brutally murdered in the yard of their Connecticut home. ', 6,000 checks go out to Yale workers in class-action settlement involving wellness program, Police: Stolen car found riddled with bullets after gunfire in New Haven near Yale, West Haven mayor under fire after city is left without a finance director at start of budget season, Convicted DiMassa codefendant requests acquittal, new trial in West Haven fraud scheme case, The Best Private High Schools near New Haven, Guide to Legal Cannabis Dispensaries in CT, The Best Private Preschools Near New Haven. It's a shocking twist and, just when viewers need things to be put into context, the details become murky. ", "My ulterior plan was to get all my money out of my 401(k) plan and get revenge against my baby sister, your mother, your father, and both of you, even Ali," she told Madison. As manager of this memorial you can add or update the memorial using the Edit button below. Filmmakers could learn a lot from how Madison Hamburg focuses on the emotional ripple effects of crime, and the very human toll that loss takes on a family and community. Ali had always maintained her innocence, claiming that she had been dropped off at school by Barbara on the morning of the murder, and that she only returned home later that day with Beach, who picked her up from school after Ali's texts to her mother went unanswered. accessed ), memorial page for Barbara Beach Hamburg (29 Apr 1961-3 Mar 2010), Find a Grave Memorial ID . It's a sobering, overwhelming realization. The case raises questions about exactly when a cold case is considered cold enough to release the investigative files publicly and likely is destined for much further debate by both the judiciary and general assembly, Klau reasoned. HBO's 'Murder on Middle Beach,' from first-time filmmaker Madison Hamburg, is a four-part documentary series that examines the life and death of his 48-year-old mother, Barbara Beach Hamburg. Did she ever try to contact them again? I can't get into details, but it's been extremely illuminating. I cant. It should be noted that this was at the height of the recession, and participants many of whom Barbara recruited from her Alcoholics Anonymous meetings were discouraged from telling their husbands or partners about their participation in the Tables. The story sort of chronicles and parallels my journey in making this. Platt also cut off her relationship with Barbara, and drew hard lines on what areas were Barbara's Gifting Tables "territory" for recruitment and which were Platt's. And they just thanked me for releasing this story, and it's really gratifying as someone who's gone through something so traumatic to hear that someone else can watch this and feel a little less alone. Barbara Beach Hamburg, Madison's mother, was killed in 2010 in Madison, Connecticut. But to date, no one has ever been charged with Barbara's murder. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. That is unbelievably gratifying, so I don't know, there's a lot of mixed things swirling around in how I feel right now. November 30, 2020. There was sort of shame attached to that, telling someone that with the connotations around murder and true crime. She suffered for years from alcoholism, addiction and physical and mental health issues as well as a palpable jealousy towards Barbara and Barbara's daughter, Ali. The department denied the request, and Neimeyer appealed to the state Freedom of Information Commission, according to a Memorandum of Decision from the Superior Court in New Britain. More than a decade after Barbara Hamburg was murdered outside her Madison home, the fight over whether the public should have access to the investigation into her death is continuing to escalate a fight that could have broad implications for access to cold case files across Connecticut. When my mom died I really was kind of orphaned and Savannah became like a home, and I turned to faculty, people I worked with, people in the community as surrogate parents in a way, and so I kept in touch. Here, we see how that leads him to investigate his own father, a pyramid scheme The Gifting Tables that his mother was involved in, his sister, and his aunt, Conway Beach. The HBO series Murder on Middle Beach has captivated audiences everywhere as filmmaker Madison Hamburg attempts to uncover the truth about what happened to his mother so many years ago. The commission in August 2020 ordered Madison police to release all records responsive to the request except for signed witness statements. Hamburg was 41 years old when she was found dead outside her home from what the medical examiners office called blunt and sharp force injuries.. Copyright 2023 Design by Julia Balfour, LLC, Federal Grant will Help Stamford Police Catch Auto Thieves, Hundreds of Elevator Malfunctions in Stamford and No Clear Fix, With Ambulance Response Times of as Much as 40 Minutes, Legislators Propose a Funding Fix, Researchers Target Housing in Pilot Program to Reduce Gun Violence, Firefighter in Rehab Calls on Department Leaders to Bolster Brotherhood, As More Weapons are Brought to Schools, Parents and Administrators Seek a Safe Path Forward. And as the docuseries comes to a close there are a growing number of theories about Barbara Hamburg's death. One issue that was resolved in the documentary was the status of Ali Hamburg, Madison's sister and the daughter of Barbara, as a potential suspect in the case. If a department cannot show there is a prospective law enforcement action and that disclosure of the records would be prejudicial to such an action, then the publics right to access the records wins out, Harmon said, arguing the Madison Police Department failed to meet its burden of proof in this case. Jeffrey, who was an exorbitantly wealthy former CEO of Southern Electric International, and Barbara had an incredibly acrimonious divorce. Her body was discovered by Madison's aunt Conway and his sister, Ali; his father . We filmed a lot and the story just kept going and going, and my professor realized we weren't gonna finish this project. The show is directed by Madison Hamburg, the 29-year-old son of Barbara Beach Hamburg, who was found dead outside of her Connecticut home in 2010. Barbara Beach Hamburg, Madison's mother, was killed in 2010 in Madison, Connecticut. And the series has certainly accomplished that. Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. If I didn't ask these questions, the questions would go unasked, but I've tried my hardest to do this what I consider the right way. Initial buy-in was about $5,000 and, under leaders like Barbara, women would liquidate savings accounts or refinance their homes for a chance at entering the more lucrative circles of the group. The personal gruesomeness of the murder and covering her body like he regrets it feels too personal to be a hit man. And we ended up pitching to Lisa Heller, who was one of our last pitches at HBO and it was just incredibly emotional. The director of HBO's true crime docuseries discusses the emotions of investigating his own mother's murder. During the last four minutes of of HBO's docuseries "Murder on Middle Beach," a black screen pops up with a single, heartwrenching sentence: My family still lives without answers about my mother's death. The series depicted how the investigation process caused rifts between the family and the secrets which suggested their involvement in the murder. The medical examiner's office soon concluded that Hamburg died from "blunt and sharp force injuries." Madison Hamburg. My whole family wasn't speaking to me.". It was a huge learning process, balancing those two roles of family member and investigative documentarian. Murder on Middle Beach calls a handful of suspects into question. So I was at film school when my mom died, in this doc class, and I told my immediate group. It premiered on November 15, 2020, on HBO. When my mom died, I took a year off from school. Alex Murdaugh Faces Life In Prison For Allegedly Killing His Wife & Son, Heres What Happened To Riley In 'The Last Of Us' Video Game, Twitter Is Losing It Over Succession Ending With Season 4, Everything To Know About 'And Just Like That' Season 2, Get Even More From Bustle Sign Up For The Newsletter. Hamburg, for his part, said Beach Hamburg was behind on mortgage payments for their property. Drumm, however, told CT Examiner that his reasoning for appealing the decision was two-fold: the potential of damaging what he said were ongoing efforts by the department to solve the case, and the need to protect the interests of the family. In 2019, Madison Hamburg and Niemeyer requested the departments investigative files under the states public records law, but the department refused, claiming the case remains an open and ongoing investigation. I'm also so close to this, and I've seen it a thousand times over the past eight years that I don't have perspective as to what is objectively good or bad. The people in the States Attorneys office who oversee the cold case reviews agreed with them that there were no new leads to follow. Would you do anything different now that it's aired? Here's everything you need to know about Beach Hamburg's death and "Murder on Middle Beach.". The police could have an incentive to just not become the focus of second-guessing, Ecker said. Conway remembers taking a bag of money to a Florida hotel to meet someone who presented themselves as a hitman. Alaine Griffin, director of communications in the Office of the Chief States Attorney said that the department had no comment at this time. When Barbara Hamburg was brutally bludgeoned to death outside her home on Middle Beach Road in Madison, Connecticut in 2010, her sister Conway Beach publicly mourned her loss. Do you know if your dad has watched or is watching? But even if the. From hair trends to relationship advice, our daily newsletter has everything you need to sound like a person whos on TikTok, even if you arent. "We miss her dearly, and it is a great loss to not have her with us," she said at a 2011 vigil, the New Haven Register reported at the time. 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Dugas acknowledged the court was dealing with competing interests, one of which was the publics right to know. Then, there is the still-plausible idea that Barbara was killed by someone she had crossed through her participation in "The Gifting Tables," a pyramid scheme wherein potential members would "gift" existing members of the organization money in order to join, then recruit new members for their own eventual pay-outs. There are strong public policy reasons for denying the general public unfettered access to investigation files, while the police are actively investigating a crime and continuing to collect new evidence and pursue new leads, Klau wrote in his decision. There have been corroborating leads, correcting things, things that we didn't know about. After the Police Department appealed a commission order to the release the records, a trial court in August 2021 upheld the commissions decision. Through Madison's eyes and camera lens, we watch as his relationship with his father crumbles, as he has to inform Ali that Conway believed she was capable of killing her own mother, as he has to badger his local police department again and again (before finally escalating to a formal Freedom of Information Act appeal) for a 1,600-page case file with details about their investigation into Barbara's death. While waiting for the person to arrive, she grabs a drink at the lobby bar. Elizabeth Benton, communications director for the Attorney Generals Office, said the office was not involved in the case. Harmon, however, said police did not say whether the new information led to new activity. [2] The television series, Murder on Middle Beach, documents the story of Madison Hamburgs search for the story behind his mothers murder. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. I really didn't want my mom's story or my story to be told by someone else. She frequently cried when talking about her sister, and more than once, displayed anger towards what happened. We certainly dont want to give a heads-up or give away some information that only somebody who was at the scene or perpetrated the crime would know.. Valicia Harmon, a staff attorney who represented the Freedom of Information Commission before the court, said the statutory provision making certain law enforcement records exempt from release balances two consideration: the right of law enforcement to conduct their investigations in private, and the right of the public to have insight into these long, cold investigations.. But after watching the entire series through again on Monday morning, I realized that's obviously the point one that I had lost sight of while tuning in week-to-week for the last month, eager to see how the case concluded. And I was just desperately trying to understand how to take the next step with something so personal and not sacrifice anything. 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. It's revealed in the "Murder on Middle Beach" epilogue that in October 2020, Madison was granted that case file and that he and his team had started reviewing it for additional information about the murder. "I was so messed up, I didn't know what to do. Murder on Middle Beach centers on the mysterious death of 48-year old Barbara Hamburg. Copyright 2023 Salon.com, LLC. There's a double-edged sword in the fact that the episodes are released weekly. Dowling said the Board of Police Commissioners and the Board of Selectmen were working on setting up a joint meeting, and that the lawsuit would be a topic of discussion for the meeting. Before joining the Register, she worked on an independent journalism project about migration in Berlin, Germany. Instead, he draws just as much suspense and intrigue by looking hard at his family history and asking his loved ones tough questions, even when they dont necessarily want to answer them. It's unknown just how many people Barbara had under her at the Gifting Tables, but she was accused of recruiting members from her AA group. I've written before about the trend of "true criminal justice" documentaries and docuseries the kind wherein the narrative is less about solving a mystery and more about turning the magnifying glass on the legal proceedings that surrounded it are an opportunity for filmmakers to present a fuller picture of criminality and victimhood. Although it seems like Conway is living a quiet life, she has mourned her sister publicly over the years, holding vigils and vowing to keep her memory alive. Just doing that over and over. Police never made an arrest in the case, though Floyd Dugas, the attorney representing the department in the records dispute, told the court Wednesday the agency long has had a prime suspect. But as soon as I started asking questions I realized it was much bigger than that. It was she who recruited Barbara into the tables, but the latter's ambition eventually caused problems for Platt. But in 2016 the pendulum sort of swung to this other role I was playing as an investigative documentarian, and I thought it might be my only opportunity to ask these questions on camera and get these authentic reactions. Drumm told CT Examiner that the Police Department had gone through all the files relevant to the case. My sister and my aunt are the closest thing I have to my mom, like they're the closest in DNA, and what they sound like. The theorists point out that Jeffrey had the most obvious motive while also having an alibi that was almost too perfect. It's also worth noting that at the time of Barbara's murder, she was set to receive $40,000 from her latest table, as the doc alleges. Precisely how much time should pass between a case going cold and when the files should be accessible to the public is up for debate, Klau conceded, but he kicked that decision to the legislature, arguing state lawmakers are in the best position to set out in writing a clear timeframe for when and how such records should be made available. Madison Hamburg On the Middle Beach Finale, India Oxenberg Finally Feels a Sense of Peace, More Coverage of the Documentaries That Matter, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. From hair trends to relationship advice, our daily newsletter has everything you need to sound like a person whos on TikTok, even if you arent. Her cover photo, quite fittingly, is one of her and Barbara, and the first thing youd see when you go to her profile is the headline GRATEFUL Conway may not have a concrete alibi for her sisters murder, but no one can deny that she loved and still misses her. Her death in 2010 was the subject of an HBO true crime documentary series produced by her son Madison Hamburg. Conway presents the situation like she simply was scammed; she and Barbara eventually came to terms, and Conway moved in with her prior to the murder (though the docuseries alleges that there was tension between the two because Barbara had asked her to move out). HBO's new true-crime docuseries "Murder on Middle Beach" premieres Sunday, November 15. The two had gone through a rough divorce and were not on good terms at the time of Barbara's death. Since 2016 there have been multiple cold case reviews and none of those reviews have turned up a new avenue of investigation, a new lead to follow or new steps to take, she said. His second goal was to absolve his family members of the crime, which dovetails with the obvious goal of discovering who actually killed Barbara. Attorney David Schulz, a Yale Law professor and member of the schools Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic that has worked with Hamburg and Niemeyer on the records fight, called Klaus decision thorough and thoughtful. He agreed the eventual conclusion of this case could help set new precedent for how the public access old police case files across the state, which is an important tool for holding investigators accountable, he said. It would not be in the interest of our own investigation to release it any further, said Drumm. Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. I think the conflicts that I deal with in the fourth episode are pretty unique to the perspective. ", initially questioned Hamburg after Beach Hamburg's murder, said her ex-husband failed to make alimony and child support payments, behind on mortgage payments for their property, primary custody of Madison and Ali, while their father received visitation rights, 'I'll Be Gone In The Dark' director believes we're drawn to true crime stories because 'you can close the book, you can turn off the TV, when in real life, you don't have that power', The 7 best true crime podcasts you can listen to right now, Watch the haunting new trailer for 'I'll Be Gone in the Dark', HBO's latest true-crime docuseries, The best true crime shows you can watch on Hulu right now. If Barbara dropped Ali off at 7:47 am and the court hearing was at 9:30 am, perhaps the father had enough time to commit the murder. 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