Hamburg also hopes the episodes will help people in similar positions or who have simply lost a loved one to know that their “feelings are validated and that they’re not alone.” The series, which Hamburg views as “a story about identity and coming-of-age and growing into who I am,” also allowed for his family to talk openly about what happened and, in many ways, heal their bonds. “In obsessing over my mom’s life, I’ve sort of become a documentary filmmaker and become who I am,” explained Hamburg. That uncertainty, he explained, is “a common kind of antagonistic relationship” among family members of a murder victim whose case remains unsolved “because there’s this sort of blue wall of silence.” Madison Hamburgs investigation into the murder of his mother Barbara 'Barbie' Beach was the subject of the HBO docuseries Murder on Middle Beach, which Vanity Fair said 'bucks tired trends.' Barbara was beaten to death outside her home on Middle Beach Road in Madison, Connecticut in 2010, and the case is still cold. If a police officer’s going to interrogate me and ask targeted questions … I wanted my own recording for, you know, I didn’t really know what I was getting into with any of those meetings I had with them.” “But I think it’s my First Amendment right. The murder had been brutal and personal, and it completely changed the lives of Barbara’s two kids18-year-old Madison and 16-year-old Ali. “I was more scared that they would somehow, like, arrest me for doing that,” Hamburg admitted with a laugh. On March 3rd, 2010, 48 year old Barbara Beach-Hamburg was found murdered in the side yard of her house in the wealthy town of Madison, Connecticut. Hamburg took a similarly bold approach when communicating with Madison Police, who the family believes dropped the ball with the investigation into his mother’s death.īeginning with the first episode, Hamburg recorded his conversations and meetings with authorities, even when they appeared more like interrogations. So I’m willing to do whatever it takes, even if it, at the time, feels ethically ambiguous.”
More than that though, Hamburg added, “I want to know what happened to my mom.
“One of his biggest complaints about how the case was covered was that he was the only person of interest named and you know, his voice is absent from all of that.” “That one I debated for a really long time,” said Hamburg. In the case of his estranged father, he covertly records their interactions. Throughout the series, Hamburg brings those allegations right to the accused, asking them point-blank whether they had anything to do with his mother’s slaying. “I desperately wanted to get past and exonerate people and get past these allegations because like, I didn’t want that to be how this ended for the person casting the allegations and the person that the allegations were about.” The death fractured the family for years and left relatives pointing the finger at one another. Through their hard-knock relationship Madison re-lives the memories surrounding 2010, the year the family distanced and disconnected around the uncertainty and tragedy of Barbara’s death.Hamburg was only 18 when his younger sister Ali, then 16, and aunt Conway Beach found his mother’s dead body outside her Middle Beach Road West home in Madison, Connecticut - about 100 miles northeast of New York City. Eventually, they do talk - all of it documented in audio by Madison’s team - Jeffrey blames a scam she was involved in, which Madison was unaware of, for her death. Initially met with obstinance, and claiming the ongoing investigation and legal matters, Jeffrey is irritated Madison wants to talk about his mother. It’s titled ‘Mom’s Dead.’ He taps his father Jeffrey Hamburg first, who was suspected in his mother’s death, never completely cleared but not held accountable nonetheless. In the first of four segments, Madison explains to his family what he has been doing since his mother’s death, trying to find out what happened.
MURDER ON MIDDLE BEACH SERIES
The rest of the series opens with the same audio laid over the buried depths of the family, literally, a family timeline/tree that unfolds as small figurines buried deep underground. The opening montage family footage of Barbara Hamburg and an adolescent Madison overlaid with audio from long ago. It is a one-of-a-kind documentary, which chronicles the timeline of his mother’s life and the family’s immense loss.Ī devastating tale I’ve re-watched a few times now, and still can’t get over. The Average Tomatometer is the sum of all season. Murder on Middle Beach, the true story of the Hamburg family, is available on HBO and HBO Max. A series gets an Average Tomatometer when at least 50 percent of its seasons have a score. The individual story of Barbara Hamburg’s, Madison Hamburg’s mother’s, murder in 2010 at the home she rented on the water, is Madison’s opus.
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