Warning: The following post contains discussions of suicide.
The new Netflix documentary The Carman Family Deaths investigates the deaths of Linda Carman and her father, John Chakalos, in 2016 and 2013, respectively. Linda died on a fishing trip with her son, Nathan Carman, in September 2016, while John was shot and killed in his bed three years earlier.
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