A Long-Ago Hitman, an HBO Docuseries and a Vexing Mystery: Who Murdered Conn. Mom Barbara Beach Hamburg?

The 2010 slaying of the 48-year-old Madison woman who was found bludgeoned and stabbed to death on the lawn of her home remains cloaked in mystery

The upscale coastal town of Madison, Conn., is known for its pristine beaches and a quaint downtown area dotted with cafes and a cozy bookstore.

But on March 3, 2010, the usually quiet enclave was turned upside down when one of its residents, Barbara Beach Hamburg, 48, was found dead in the yard of the tidy, three-bedroom ranch she was renting for herself and her children, the New Haven Register reports.

In 2002, she and her husband, Jeffrey Hamburg, a once-thriving but now beleaguered businessman, had divorced, Fox 61 reports. The couple was still fighting over funds.

She was found dead on the very day they were both supposed to show up in family court for a hearing over thousands of dollars she said he owed her in back alimony and child support payments.

An autopsy revealed her death was caused by sharp force injury and blunt force trauma.

No arrests have ever been made.

Jeffrey was questioned after her death but he had an apparent alibi since he was in court the morning she was killed.

In 2020, the victim's son, Madison Hamburg, released a four-part documentary he had spent years making: Murder on Middle Beach aired on HBO and explored the mystery surrounding his mother’s senseless death.

In the documentary, Madison tries to get his father to speak about his mother’s murder, even recording him without his knowledge, but his father declines to broach the subject, GQ reports.

The documentary also shows how Madison learned that his mother had been involved in a pyramid scheme involving “gifting tables” and explores whether anyone she met in the MSM world had anything to do with her murder, Oxygen reports. (He doesn't come up with much…)

He also delves into the complicated relationship between his mother and her older sister, Conway Beach, who, with along with Madison’s sister, found Barbara’s body on the lawn, covered in couch cushions, according to Bustle.

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The victim's older sister tells Madison in the documentary that she was a person of interest in the case and that she had once tried to hire a hitman to kill her sister and Jeffrey — but was unsuccessful, Oxygen reports. She said she told authorities about this also.

Madison spent years trying to access police records on the case, even taking the case to the state Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court was tasked with looking into a part of the state’s Freedom of Information Act enabling police departments to refuse to release “information to be used in a prospective law enforcement action if prejudicial to such action,” CT Insider reports.

In a unanimous decision in February, the Supreme Court ruled that police must show that “that an arrest or prosecution is at least reasonably possible,” CT Insider reports.

Madison is still waiting for the documents.

The murder is still unsolved.

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