A U.S. federal judge announced Tuesday that he has arrested a teenager accused of killing his mother in 2016 in an attempt to inherit his family’s property and property off the coast of New England.
Nathan Carmen, 28, of Vermont, North America, is accused of killing his mother, Linda Carmen, whose body has yet to be found, and whose boat is said to have sunk after an area that is said to have been fishing in the Atlantic. In 2016 off the coast of Rhode Island.
At the time, the accused was found safe and healthy in a dinghy eight days after he went to sea with his mother.
The young man was arrested Tuesday and is due to appear in federal court in Vermont on Wednesday, according to a U.S. Justice Department report.
He faces up to life in prison for murder and up to 30 years in prison if convicted of financial insurance fraud.
In addition, Nathan Carmen has been under suspicion since 2013, but has not been charged with shooting his grandfather John Saclos in Connecticut, another small New England state in the Northeast.
The U.S. judge suspects that the “two murders were part of a plot to extort money from John Caclos and his family.”
