The death of a 29-year-old Vermont man awaiting trial for allegedly murdering his mother and grandfather to collect millions of dollars in inheritance is not suspicious, the state Department of Justice said Friday.

Nathan Carman was alone in his cell at a county jail in New Hampshire when guards found him dead around 2:30 a.m. Thursday morning, he left behind a note for his attorneys in what is being called a likely suicide, The Middletown Press reported. The actual cause of death, however, will not be publicly released, per the policy of The New Hampshire Office of the Chief Medical Examine.

“We believe Mr. Carman left us a note that we look forward to receiving to make sense of a very tragic situation,” said David Sullivan, an attorney for Carman.

Carman was set to go on trial for the murders on October 2. He was accused of shooting and killing his grandfather, former Army paratrooper and self-made millionaire John Chakalos, in 2013, Fox News reported. Carman allegedly killed his grandfather to collect $550,000 from the family trust fund, which he reportedly spent within three years.

Out of money, Carman took his mother, Linda, out on his boat in 2016, which he intentionally sank to kill her and collect $85,000 in insurance money, prosecutors allege.

The indictment against Carman was unsealed in May 2022. It does not explain how Carman allegedly killed his mother, but it says he purposefully sunk the boat the two were on that day. Carman spent eight days on a life raft after the boat sank before being found by a commercial fishing ship.

In 2016, after the boat sank, Carman told the Associated Press that he tried to find his mother when the ship began to sink. He told the outlet that he heard a “funny noise” coming from the engine compartment, and water started pouring in, sinking the boat in just minutes. He claimed at the time that he saw his mother in the cockpit of the boat and rushed to grab food, flares, and life jackets, but she was gone when he looked back.

“What happened on the boat was a terrible tragedy that I am still trying to process and that I am still trying to come to terms with,” he told the AP at the time.

Suspicions were raised even at the time of the incident, including the death of Carman’s grandfather three years earlier. He told the AP in the same interview that he had nothing to do with his grandfather’s death.

“My grandfather was like a father to me, and I was like a son to him,” Carman said at the time. “He was the closest person in the world to me, and I loved him and he loved me, and I had absolutely nothing to do with his death.”

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A search warrant had been issued in 2014 relating to the death of Carman’s grandfather, Chakalos. The warrant, obtained by the AP, explained that Carman was the last person to see his grandfather alive, had purchased a rifle consistent with the one used in the shooting, and discarded his hard drive and GPS unit around the time his grandfather died.

Chakalos divvied up his $42 million estate between his four adult daughters, one of whom was Carman’s mother. Carman’s three aunts filed a lawsuit in 2018 in which they accused him of killing his grandfather and possibly his mother to gain the money. In the lawsuit, they asked a judge to block Carman from receiving his inheritance.

Carman’s trial is set for October 2 and is expected to last for more than two weeks.

Former Attorney General William Barr unloaded on former President Donald Trump during an interview on Sunday over the former president’s conduct and alleged criminal behavior.

Barr made the remarks during an interview on CBS News’s “Face The Nation” while discussing the federal indictment against the president and two other criminal cases.

Barr’s remarks come after Trump attacked Barr a week ago after Barr gave an unfavorable analysis of the legal situation that Trump faces. Trump called Barr “a slob,” “a stupid person,” “a coward,” “a low life,” and a “gutless pig.”

The former attorney general, who served under Trump and former President George H.W. Bush, said that it was true that Trump “has been the victim of unfair witch hunts in the past.”

“But that doesn’t obviate the fact that he’s also a fundamentally flawed person who engages in reckless conduct, and that leads to situations, calamitous situations like this, which are very destructive and hurt any political cause he’s associated with,” Barr said. “And this was a case, entirely of his own making. He had no right to those documents. The government tried for over a year, quietly and with respect, to get them back, which was essential that they do, and he jerked them around.”

Barr said the former president had “no legal basis” to retain the documents, and he believes Trump lied to the Department of Justice.

Barr said the criminal obstruction charges against Trump are “very strong” because “a lot of the evidence comes from his own lawyers.”

The former attorney general strongly disputed Trump’s idea that he should be shielded by the Presidential Records Act, saying that the “whole purpose” of the statute, which was passed after the Watergate scandal, was “to stop presidents from taking official documents out of the White House.”

When asked about Trump’s sentence if he’s convicted, Barr did not give a direct answer but did say, “I don’t like the idea of a former president serving time in prison.”

“Trump has many good qualities, and he accomplished some good things,” Barr said a few moments later. “But the fact of the matter is, he is a consummate narcissist. And he constantly engages in reckless conduct that puts his political followers at risk and the conservative and Republican agenda at risk.”

Barr said that Trump “will always put his own interests, and gratifying his own ego, ahead of everything else, including the country’s interest, there’s no question about it.”

He said that the entire situation that Trump finds himself in now was “a perfect example of that.”

“He’s like a nine-year-old, defiant nine-year-old kid who’s always pushing the glass toward the edge of the table, defying his parents to stop him from doing it,” Barr said. “It’s a means of self-assertion and exerting his dominance over other people. And he’s a very petty individual who will always put his interests ahead of the country’s, his personal gratification of his ego. But our country can’t be a therapy session for a troubled man like this.”

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Barr went on to say he believes Trump will be prosecuted in the federal criminal investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election but cautioned the case will be hard to prosecute due to the First Amendment. He also said that he thinks charges will likely be filed in the criminal investigation in Georgia into the matter, but added that he was skeptical of that case.

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