“The last time I talked to my dad is on camera in the series and he wouldn’t take my call.” While his father has been evasive, Madison says that he still wants a relationship with him. The scenes with Madison talking to Jeffrey are secretly filmed and recorded and by the end of the documentary, Jeffrey is not happy that he’s been secretly filmed. The series features a lot of tension as Madison asks sensitive questions of his family members, but none had more tension than Madison’s interviews with his father Jeffrey as he continuously dodged questions relating Barbara’s murder. Among the secrets that get drawn out in the film are mysterious financial dealings from his father, strong animosity between family members and aspects of Barbara’s life including alcoholism, recovering from it and involvement in a multi-level marketing scheme. The crime has yet to be solved and Madison spends the documentary not only looking for answers as to who may have committed the crime, but also discovering things about his mother that he never knew.

“ Murder on Middle Beach,” which can currently be streamed on HBO Max, features Madison telling the story of how his mother was murdered in his Connecticut hometown in 2010.

It was a sort of escapism at that point, but it helped me develop a language for communicating a lot of stuff that I can’t properly articulate.” “I sort of like lost myself and just filming the world around me. From that moment on, Madison would use film as a coping mechanism for when things got difficult in his life.

“My parents told me that they were getting divorced the day before Christmas when I was 11 and on Christmas Day they bought me a Handycam,” Hamburg tells Gold Derby at our Meet the Experts: Television Documentary panel ( watch the exclusive video interview above). Years before she was murdered, Madison Hamburg‘s mother Barbara Hamburg gave him a gift that would shape his life forever.

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