We have the tip line,, and I've requested a reward with the state, and the amount of tips, the amount of messages that we've received, and you never know what small detail is going to make a difference in an investigation, that's been really surprising. And one of them was, if we don't solve my mom's case, then the documentary becomes a tool for me to get my mom's story out there and provide some momentum.
In setting out to do this, I didn't have an expectation that we would solve my mom's case, but there are many goals I have had throughout this process and they sort of evolve. Have you had any other reactions surprise you? That is unbelievably gratifying, so I don't know, there's a lot of mixed things swirling around in how I feel right now. 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. Someone sent me this beautiful essay about their loss and feeling alone, feeling that like they weren't grieving correctly, and the guilt and all these things that come with grief, with something unresolved. 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.īut one thing that surprised me-I remember the first message I got after the release of episode one. They've seen the documentary, we had family screenings before we even sent it out to press. But it's also really challenging for both my aunts, my sister and my family, so we've had a lot of conversations. It’s an amazing thing as someone who's created something, because the conversations extend week to week and to see the effects that it has and the momentum that it causes is really beautiful. There's a double-edged sword in the fact that the episodes are released weekly. And sort of realizing that what I wanted as a character in the story and as a person is to know what happened to my mom, but I think what I need, and my sister said so beautifully as the beginning of the last episode, is peace. It's terrifying, and I think that something that was really important for me was naming and identifying the adverse effects of doing something like this in the documentary itself, because I just think that's one of the unique aspects of the point of view. 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. How has it been for you with it finally out in the world after all those years working on it? He updated us on his relationship with his father at present, his family’s reaction to the series, as well as the status of his mother Barbara’s open case today. Madison, now 29 years old, talked to Esquire before the finale of Murder on Middle Beach airs on HBO this Sunday. Instead, he draws just as much suspense and intrigue by looking hard at his family history and asking his loved ones tough questions, even when they don’t necessarily want to answer them. But Madison’s is not a traditional true crime documentary-he didn’t want to fetishize or agonize over the gory details of the murder.
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Through interviews with and secret recordings of his immediate family and the police, Madison and his crew tell the story of Barbara Beach Hamburg’s full life and tragic death. In the height of his grief, he decided he could use his medium of choice-film-to memorialize her, and also explore who she really was, who might have wanted to hurt her, and why.
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HBO’s four-part documentary series is the compilation of eight years of work for Madison, who was 19 when his mother was found bludgeoned to death outside their Connecticut home in 2010. But Murder on Middle Beach is not a normal documentary. It’s not a normal father-son catch-up scene. While their outing is filmed from a hotel window across the street from the bar, Madison prods his father on details about his marriage to Madison’s late mother. In HBO’s 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.
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