Man linked to deaths seeks access to family trust

Report: Former Middletown resident seeking to hire lawyer

BOSTON — A Vermont man accused by his family of killing his millionaire grandfather and possibly his mother to collect inheritance money wants to tap into a family trust to hire a lawyer.

The Boston Globe reports Nathan Carman, formerly of Middletown, is asking a Connecticut judge to remove his aunt, Valerie Santilli, as trustee of the Nathan Carman Family Trust so that he can retain a lawyer to represent him in a New Hampshire civil suit brought by Santilli and her sisters.

The family is trying to block Carman from collecting from the estate of his grandfather, who was killed in his Connecticut home in 2013.

Carman was considered a suspect, but no arrests have been made.

Carman was also questioned in 2016 after his boat from Rhode Island sank, killing his mother. He was

later found in Massachusetts waters.

Carman now lives in Vernon, Vermont. He is under investigation by state and federal authorities in the disappearance of his mother Linda, 54, in September 2016 after a boating accident that left him adrift at sea. After eight days, he was rescued off the coast of Massachusetts by a passing freightliner. His mother, who lived in Middletown, was never found and no charges have been filed in connection with her disappearance.

The Coast Guard said Linda Carman is presumed dead.

Police have also deemed him a person of interest in the murder of his wealthy grandfather, 87, who was shot to death at his Windsor home in December 2013, a month after his wife of 59 years died of cancer. He had gunshot wounds in his head and back, police said.