![]() The person at the top (the dessert level) would collect all of the new member's gifts. Older members would move up the hierarchy as new members were recruited. If you were a newbie, you'd join at the appetizer level and were required to bring in a "gift" of $5,000. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play For starters, you had to be invited to the gifting table.Īnd once you were, you'd enter into a four-level pyramid with tiers named "Appetizers," "Soups and Salads," "Entrees," and "Dessert," per the DOJ. Before her death, Barbara was a gifting table leader, meaning she could have collected millions from other women in her community-and making her a potential target. And that would lead to Platt's arrest, eventual wire fraud and false tax return charges, and a federal prison sentence of 54 months with three years of supervised release, per the U.S. If you've already watched the first episode, then you know that at the end of it, Barbara Hamburg's son, Madison Hamburg, the director of the docuseries, learns about his mother's involvement in an illegal pyramid scheme, known as "gifting tables."Īs explained by Madison's father, Jeffrey Hamburg, during a phone call with Madison, it was Jill Platt, Madison's aunt who got Barbara involved in the tables. But Murder on Middle Beach, HBO's latest docuseries, has enough twists and turns to give you whiplash. With every true crime series, you expect the unexpected. ![]() This article contains spoilers for Murder On Middle Beach. Barbara was said to be involved in "gifting tables," an illegal pyramid scheme that some think could have played a role in her death.The documentary follows the murder of a Connecticut woman, Barbara Hamburg.The latest true crime series Murder on Middle Beach just hit HBO.Nyswaner most recently wrote for premium cable dramas “Ray Donovan” and “Homeland.” His future projects include the documentary “Loan Wolves,” about the student loan crisis a scripted TV series about a gay love story that spans 35 years from the 1950s to 1987 and possibly an under-wraps Pittsburgh-set project called “The Miracle. But it doesn’t have enough germane material for four installments – the second episode goes off on a tangent that proves largely fruitless – and it ends at a seemingly premature juncture. ![]() “Murder on Middle Beach” proves affecting in its portrayal of a grieving family and a questioning son seeking to root out the truth. Nyswaner said the goal is to bring attention to this cold case so that, as with the case of the Golden State Killer, amateur detectives may aid in the investigation. “The engine of the series is Madison’s quest to put his mother’s soul to rest and … find out what happened to her.” “He really is trying to exonerate the people he loves, trying to bring truth and some sunlight into the clouds under which they’ve been living for 10 years,” Nyswaner said. Nysawner said it was important to Hamburg that “Murder on Middle Beach” is not viewed as a typical true-crime docu-series. ![]() Like the Showtime docu-series “Love Fraud,” in which producers hired private detectives, HBO’s investment allowed Hamburg to finance an investigator. As Madison’s story unfolded we saw it was multi-layered and had stories within stories and it was really beautifully shot.” “If you’re a successful producer, you think about what the market is looking for and you don’t go out with something that doesn’t have enough story to do multiple episodes,” Nyswaner said in a phone interview earlier this month. Ultimately HBO bought the project, which had been reconceived as a series. Instead Nyswaner optioned the project and worked with Hamburg for a year as they prepared a pitch for distributors. Nyswaner was asked to offer Hamburg legal advice just as Hamburg was about to sell his story as a feature documentary to a Texas-based film company. Nyswaner, who grew up in Clarksville, Greene County, learned of Hamburg’s passion project in 2017 from Madison’s uncle, a longtime friend of Nyswaner’s. Western Pennsylvania native Ron Nyswaner, Oscar-nominated screenwriter of the Tom Hanks-starring 1993 HIV discrimination legal drama “Philadelphia” and writer/director of 1988’s filmed-in-Harmar, Keanu Reeves-starring “The Prince of Pennsylvania,” executive produces “Murder on Middle Beach.” Sunday) is directed by and stars young filmmaker Madison Hamburg as he investigates the 2010 murder of his mother, interviewing potential suspects within his family. HBO’s four-part “Murder on Middle Beach” (10 p.m. True crime docu-series continue to proliferate and the latest comes with a more personal touch. ![]()
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