FBI searches family property of murder suspect
Federal authorities scoured an abandoned New Hampshire property owned by the family of a man whose 2013 homicide in Connecticut remains unsolved and whose daughter is presumed dead after the boat she was on sank during a mother-son fishing trip in September.
An FBI spokeswoman confirmed yesterday that an evidence response team was assisting a multiagency investigation at the Spofford, N.H., property owned by John Chakalos, the grandfather of Nathan Carman, who is a suspect in Chakalos’ homicide. Carman’s mother, Linda Carman, disappeared at sea after his boat sank 100 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard. Carman has said he doesn’t know what happened to his mother as their boat sank after leaving South Kingstown, R.I., on Sept. 17.
He was found more than a week later by a Chinese shipping vessel, the Lucky Orient.
At least a dozen people in “hazmat-style suits” could be seen on the property Thursday, according to The Keene Sentinel.
A family spokeswoman had no comment on the search.
Nathan Carman, who was the last person known to have seen Chakalos alive, remains a person of interest in his grandfather’s 2013 murder, according to police.
No arrests have been made in his case.
South Kingstown police are looking for evidence that would suggest Nathan’s repairs and modifications to his boat constituted operating to endanger and led to his mother’s apparent death at sea, according to court documents.