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. 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. HBO. While Beach's husband (and Madison's father) Jeffrey was questioned early on about his ex-wife's murder, there have still been no arrests made in the case. Niemeyer appealed the decision with the Freedom of Information Commission. I'm in awe of my sister. Would you do it? Evidence of a struggle was strewn across the lawn. Sign up for notifications from Insider! But the court has no doubt that this decision is not the last word on this issue, nor should it be, Klau wrote in his conclusion. Barbara's sister, Conway Beach, makes a number of accusations in the series accusing Ali of murdering her mother, believing she did so before going to school on that day. Retracing the path of controversial Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe includes many stops in Connecticut. It's really interesting. Weeks of back-and-forth ensued as the show premiered on HBO. So many people had the opportunity, the motive, the means. 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. I can't get into details, but it's been extremely illuminating. 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. And as the docuseries comes to a close there are a growing number of theories about Barbara Hamburg's death. Murder on Middle Beach didn't decisively eliminate any other suspects. We may earn a commission from these links. A list of additional records submitted to the court includes surveillance video, recordings of specific voicemails, non-police tape-recorded conversations and copies of items seized from Barbara Hamburgs bedroom safe. He said the Board of Selectmen would have to determine how much the town was willing to spend on the lawsuit.Downing expressed hope that state agencies would take up the case and relieve the town of a potentially significant financial burden appealing the case. 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. Here are the facts: on March 3rd, 2010, Barbara Beach Hamburg was beaten to death in front of her modest house in Madison, Connecticut. CT DOT faces criticism following overnight tree-cutting, Haar: Payouts at fading CT trash agency offer lessons in a crisis, State nursing homes could face fine due to too many empty beds, CT legislators revive debate over firefighters' cancer benefits. Just doing that over and over. Barbara Beach Hamburg, Madison's mother, was killed in 2010 in Madison, Connecticut. As her son, I want to know what was and wasnt done. [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. "My parents told me that . Did she ever try to contact them again? It is more than a reasonable possibility, pun intended, that the Connecticut Appellate or Supreme Court will review this decision. This theory does seem to make a lot of sense, except when you consider how Barbara was murdered. It would not be in the interest of our own investigation to release it any further, said Drumm. To this day, the case that shocked a wealthy, idyllic seaside town has remained unsolved. I cant. Beach claims to have been accused of being jealous of her sister's success, but denies it in the docuseries. 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. 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There are new developments in a Connecticut cold case that was the subject of the HBO documentary "Murder on Middle Beach." One of the. The answer much like some of the details presented in "Murder on Middle Beach" is complicated. She totally got it and they made us an offer. Madison Hamburg is in the unique position of being both the director of HBO's new documentary series, "Murder on Middle Beach," and the son of its subject, Barbara Beach Hamburg. 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. 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.. I don't know. On March 3, 2010, Barbara was found brutally murdered in the yard of their Connecticut home. Judge Daniel Klau upheld the commissions decision that the files must be turned over in a ruling of his own last month, but last week the police department appealed that decision, too. 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. In addition to the Beach family, Hamburg makes several appearances in the series as well although he's never formally interviewed. The brutal crime was committed in 2010 when Madison was 19-years-old. They've seen the documentary, we had family screenings before we even sent it out to press. But Murder on Middle Beach is not a normal documentary. A single mother of two, Hamburg was bludgeoned and stabbed to death in the front yard of her Madison,. 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. Over the course of the docuseries, which began as a student film when Madison was in college, Madison says that he has a few goals. As he revealed in a video update on Dec. 8 through HBO's YouTube channel, he is currently combing through these files for additional information that could eventually help solve the case. Alaine Griffin, director of communications in the Office of the Chief States Attorney said that the department had no comment at this time. The old adage about a fresh pair of eyes is particularly apt. 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. Barbara Hamburg was found murdered outside her family's Middle Beach Road home on March 3, 2010, but the case went cold and no one has ever been charged in connection with her death. Schulz echoed the judges world, noting that his clients planned to use the information as part of a documentary. And if they can keep it closed forever, youll never be able to hold them accountable or give them an incentive not to cover something up.. I think the conflicts that I deal with in the fourth episode are pretty unique to the perspective. ------------------------------------------, details presented in "Murder on Middle Beach", killed by someone she had crossed through her participation in "The Gifting Tables,", "The Jinx," the shocking 2015 HBO docuseries, "true criminal justice" documentaries and docuseries. In October 2020, they passed over 1,600 documents about the case which he is now poring over - and hopes it will give him a definitive answer about who killed his mother. By the end of the series, the only suspect who has a truly rock-solid alibi is Ali, anda number of questions about that, in my mind, remained unanswered: Who was the masked man who was allegedly seen lurking outside Barbara's window the day before she was murdered? "Murder on Middle Beach" is currently streaming on HBO Max. We work on this case weekly, we have a states attorney assigned to us who works on this weekly. What it did do, though, was bring light to the case and start a conversation around it. 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. The series depicted how the investigation process caused rifts between the family and the secrets which suggested their involvement in the murder. The. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. The case was then brought to trial in the Superior Court of New Britain, which last month upheld the Freedom of Information Commissions ruling. By Valentina Valentini 12/06/20 11:00pm Madison Hamburg . Conway Beach is Barbara Beach Hamburgs elder sister and the woman who, unfortunately, discovered her body. At the time of her death, Beach Hamburg had primary custody of Madison and Ali, while their father received visitation rights. In HBOs Murder on Middle Beach, we watch as a nervous Madison Hamburg tapes a hidden microphone to his shirt and zips up his jacket before heading out to meet his Dad for a beer. June 3, 2021 8:00AM. In HBO's latest true crime docuseries, Murder on Middle Beach, director Madison Hamburg tries to uncover every clue in the unsolved murder of his mother, Barbara Hamburg . How did she contact them? Barbara was found dead on the morning of March 3, 2010, in the yard of her rental house on Middle Beach Road in Madison, Conn. Police responded at 11:25 a.m. to a 911 call reporting an injured . I started the project in a documentary film class. She. Drumm told commissioners he believed plaintiffs were led to ask the Madison Police Department for additional records after obtaining copies of evidence collected by other state agencies who were assisting on the case, such as the Connecticut State Police, who Drumm said processed evidence at their crime lab. In 2010, Barbara Beach Hamburg was found bludgeoned in her yard next to the golf course in Madison, Connecticut. Allowing that type of information to come out may be more likely to help them solve the crime [rather] than keeping everything secret. In the series, she denies killing Barbara while showing little to no remorse for her past crimes. On March 3, 2010, Barbara Beach Hamburg was found dead in her Connecticut house. HBO's new docuseries "Murder on Middle Beach" is a moving exploration of one woman's life and murder, and how her family dealt with the aftermath of her death. Beach Hamburg is survived by her children, Madison and Ali, 27, as well as her mother, also named Barbara, and numerous siblings. HBO's latest four-part docuseries, 'Murder on Middle Beach' delves into the gruesome murder of Barbara Hamburg, a 48-year-old woman, who was found bludgeoned to death outside her home on Middle Beach Road. I moved to Austin after school and found out there was this alumni artist residency that the president of SCAD was funding personally, and so I reached out to them about it. His second goal was to absolve his family members of the crime, which dovetails with the obvious goal of discovering who actually killed Barbara. I want checks and balances.. 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. Her body was discovered by Madison's aunt Conway and his sister, Ali. It's something that I've been dealing with throughout this process since partnering with HBO last year, but the idea that this was going to be in the public eye and that these vulnerabilities that my family has trusted me with were going to be exposed didn't enter the equation until the stage was realized. But to date, no one has ever been charged with Barbara's murder. 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. In the following years, they appeared in court together numerous times after Beach Hamburg said her ex-husband failed to make alimony and child support payments. I started in 2013 really fresh and very amateur to documentary. Barbara's husband Jeffrey Hamburg was the suspect in the case, though he was never charged with her murder, he was jailed for monetary frauds. Her body was discovered by her sister, Conway Beach, who visited the home with Hamburg's teenage daughter Ali Hamburg after picking her up from school. She was a woman who was known to be head-strong. He updated us on his relationship with his father at present, his familys reaction to the series, as well as the status of his mother Barbaras open case today. 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 . Would you do anything different now that it's aired? He also works to eliminate several of his family members as potential suspects in his mother's murder. At the end of the series, Madison wins his case with the Freedom of Information Commission to receive case files relating to his mother's homicide investigation. 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