![]() ![]() (Police refused the release of other records, Madison Detective Chris Sudock saying at a Freedom of Information hearing in February that it could compromise the investigation because there was "information contained in those files that only the perpetrator of this crime would know.")Ĭonway calls her sister "Barbie," her familiar nickname, per the New Haven Register. "It looks like somebody hit her with something," Conway is heard telling the dispatcher in a recording of the 911 call released just this year by the Madison Police Department in response to a contested records request from a production company working on Murder on Middle Beach. to a 911 call reporting an injured woman after her sister Conway Beach found her lying in the grass, bleeding from her head. During the second episode, Madison took a dive into “Gifting Table,” and speculation that his mom’s murder was connected to that pyramid scheme.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. He became a person of interest in the murder. ![]() Jeffrey and Barbara had a court date scheduled that day as they were embroiled in a heated legal battle. During the first episode, he tries to talk to his dad Jeffrey about the murder. She denied having anything to do with the murder.Ĭonway's past is just one of the many difficult avenues Madison explores while investigating his mom's death. ![]() She said she told investigators about the hitman attempt. Later, Barbara took Conway in and gave her a place to live when Conway was going through health issues.Īfter Barbara's murder, Conway was a person of interest, according to Conway. The next thing she knew, she woke up in her room naked and penniless.Ĭonway reflects on murderous notions she harbored by explaining that she “snapped” and became a “mother bear.” She rented a room at a “nice” hotel in Orlando and went to the bar to meet him, started drinking, and blacked out. At one point, she got some money and thought she was indeed meeting a hitman. She said she would ask complete strangers, like bartenders and taxi drivers, how to hire a hitman. “I was so messed up, I didn’t know what to do. “But my ulterior plan was to get all my money out of my 401(k) plan and get revenge against my baby sister, your mother, your father, and both of you, even Ali,” she confessed. The Hamburgs drove down to Florida to talk to Conway, and Jeffrey claimed that when they informed other relatives of Conway’s condition, they were told to “let her die.”Ĭonway explained to Madison that she was sleeping on park benches, and figured she’d just live out on the streets until her death. “She was absolutely going to die,” he told his son. She soon moved off to Florida where, Madison's dad Jeffrey Hamburg, claimed, she was hanging out with a “pimp” and doing drugs. While Benishek was grateful for the experience, Conway was less than thrilled. “She made me feel like one of her children. “She [Barbara[ brought me into her home to show me that there was more to life than the life I was living,” Benishek said in the docuseries. The Hamburgs took in Conway’s son Tyler Benishek to live with them around the time that Conway was evicted from her home. “I was out of control and Barb knew it,” she said. As Madison talked to Conway, he exposed some the uncomfortable history between her and her baby sister Barbara.Ĭonway explains that back in 1996, she was battling substance misuse. The two women were together when Barbara’s body was discovered, covered in pillows on her yard. Barbara's son Madison uncovers that past in his four-part HBO Max docuseries about his mom's murder called “Murder on Middle Beach.” During the docuseries’ third episode, entitled “Sisters,” Madison interviews both Beach and his own sister Ali Hamburg. ![]() However, the murder was never solved, and as a new docuseries reveals, there existed beneath Beach's grief a layer of tension, and even a sense of betrayal, between sisters. "We don't want it forgotten," she said, adding that "everybody wants this solved." She vowed to keep her sister's memory alive. The following year, Beach was present at another vigil, where she called her slain sister "loving, kind, giving, thoughtful, caring, a wonderful mother, a wonderful sister," the New Haven Register reported in 2012. "We miss her dearly, and it is a great loss to not have her with us," she said at a 2011 vigil, the New Haven Register reported at the time. When Barbara Hamburg was brutally bludgeoned to death outside her home on Middle Beach Road in Madison, Connecticut in 2010, her sister Conway Beach publicly mourned her loss. ![]()
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