Aug. 14, 2026
NEW: Martha Nolan’s Family Sets Up Tip Line After Filing $50 Million Lawsuit Against Yacht Owner
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RSS Feed It’s been more than a year since 33-year-old Martha Nolan was found dead on a wealthy Montauk entrepreneur’s yacht last August and police have yet to release her cause of death or any updates on the investigation. So now, Nolan’s family is asking the public for information, setting up a website and tip line just days after filing a $50 million lawsuit against Christopher Durnan, the man who was alone with Nolan when she died. Even though police say she showed no signs of violence, Nolan’s family says their independent investigation showed there was blood in her mouth, chest and back of her head when EMTs showed up more than an hour after she reportedly “went limp” on Durnan’s yacht.
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey, that folks. It is Friday, August fourteenth, and after a year of almost nothing in the investigation and the death of Martha Nolan in montac there seem to be a lot of developments lately, including another significant one. They are asking for tips and with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. A year of almost nothing really and now a lawsuit and now attorneys and the family of Martha Nolan are making a plea to the public.
00:00:35
Speaker 2: Look, at some point, you have to take matters into your own hands when you aren't getting the help from police that, honestly, I think we should be able to expect, and I think that this family deserves and it's there's just been no information and it seems like there's been little to no communication with the Nolan family about where the investigation stands. Hell what even the damn autopsy says the official autopsy, They have theirs and we'll get into that because their lawyer has been talking specifically about what's inside and it is eyebrow raising. It is something that needs to be discussed and investigated and.
00:01:19
Speaker 3: Acknowledged, maybe even by the police.
00:01:21
Speaker 1: Something happened to her violently based on what the lawyer.
00:01:26
Speaker 2: Described, and that flies in the face of what police said initially, which was there was no violence.
00:01:33
Speaker 1: Noted Robes, her name is getting back in headlines again, and movement is happening. I think that's a positive. And I think even the folks in New York, the folks along Long Island, the folks certainly in Montague, deserve an answer. Somebody in their town died. A thirty three year old woman just died, and there is not an answer at all or even Robes at this point. And we complained about this recently. They act like they don't even care if the investigation is going on or to get answers to this family.
00:02:03
Speaker 2: Yet they're not even making a statement saying or acknowledging we understand the need for answers into what happened to this young woman, and we assure you this is an active investigation. We are following up on leads and even asking the public for help. But you know what, that plea didn't come from police. It's coming from the family.
00:02:26
Speaker 1: Yes, the family, through their attorneys, have now set up a website and a tip line. Robes they call Martha tipline dot com. I have just put this up they made an announcement about it. We're gonna let you hear what the attorney says about it here in just a second. This comes on the heel of them filing a fifty million dollar wrongful death lawsuit. Will give you a reminder of that in a second as well. But Robes I went through the law the website today they are they're making a plea for anybody who was anywhere and might know anything to come forward.
00:03:01
Speaker 2: Absolutely so on the website. This is what Martha's family has put out. On August fourth, twenty twenty six, we filed a wrongful death action against Christopher Dernan on behalf of the estate of Martha nolan oslattera. Martha was a thirty three year old fashioned entrepreneur who died while alone with mister Dernan aboard his vessel at the Star Island Yacht Club in.
00:03:26
Speaker 1: Montagu There's some emphasis on that if you didn't catch it who died alone with him, that is all true. They go on to say just their legal team the Britham is the name of this law firm, but they say they continue to investigate, asking anybody for information to come forward, specifically Robes. There layout we would like to hear from anyone who was at or near the Star Island Yacht Club on those days, worked at the club or a nearby business, saw or interacted with Martha or Christopher Dernan, if you witness any activity on around the dogs, had relevant information before or after communication, I should say, before or after her death, and even if you are unsure whether what you know is important, we want to hear from you. Robes. The lawsuit they filed suggested, yes, not suggested. They say directly that she died at the hands of Dernan. That says it directly. This, I guess Robes, they're still looking for it. Maybe they don't have enough yet, but they are. They think there's something out there, maybe somebody that knows something.
00:04:32
Speaker 2: Uh. That's right, because the lawyer put out this statement, he said, Martha's family has waited more than a year for answers, and we are committed to finding out all the information and evidence about what happened to her that night. We believe there are people who have information that can help. If you saw something, heard something, or know something about Martha, Christopher Durnan, or the events at the Star Island Yacht Club, please come forward.
00:05:00
Speaker 1: They might be the ones to have to do this and figure this out. Robes, And that's not going to be a good look for the police because it just from the beginning Robes it never felt like an active investigation.
00:05:11
Speaker 2: No, And to then hear that this independent autopsy by the family said that EMTs found blood in her mouth, on her chest and head, on the floor and behind her head, and that her body was cold despite the timeline given to them by Dernan that she had just lost consciousness. That how that to me if that's true, that that's in a police report or that EMTs reported that, and then obviously the autopsy that this family did independent of the medical examiner, how do we not have any information from police about where their investigation stands or that they're even investigating it as a possible homicide.
00:05:57
Speaker 1: Robes, I've said to you and I'm an apologies is a I don't want to cast displosions and in any way making an accusation, but this is what leads to thoughts of some body being protected. You can't be this disant Robes if this woman were smack dab in the midle of Manhattan, we ever stand for the and being having the local press here in New York wouldn't stand for this at all. Robes, given what the age she was, the circumstances, and how she looked, she would have been everywhere here in Manhattan. This story would have been front page every single day. Robes where it happened has at the end to be playing a role in why there isn't more coverage. It's a long way to go out there and report.
00:06:49
Speaker 3: It's a small local community, it is.
00:06:52
Speaker 2: And I am curious if I'm look, maybe I'm being naive here, but if I'm Christopher Durnett and look, this is a sixty year old entrepreneur I believe extremely wealthy. He had invested as much as two hundred thousand dollars into Martha's company. But if I'm Christopher Durnett and my name's out there the way it is as a possible suspect, and I have now a lawsuit filed against me, I am gonna want to have my name cleared. I am going to want to do everything to prove my innocence. I am going to want to make sure that police investigate this thoroughly. If I'm innocent, I want this thoroughly investigated so that I can clear my name, I have to say, I don't know.
00:07:35
Speaker 1: I don't know. You'd be worried of coming forward, putting your face to it, folks chasing you out down all the time in a high profile case, and also Ropes, you'd be worried that police would jump to a conclusion even if you are innocent. True.
00:07:48
Speaker 2: But now, at this point, his name is everywhere. The family is saying. What the family is saying, they believe he absolutely is directly responsible for causing her injury, harm, pain and suffering.
00:08:00
Speaker 3: So there's no escaping that.
00:08:02
Speaker 2: And now, like, wouldn't you want to be doing everything in your power to clear your name?
00:08:08
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would trust that. I would see why someone might be very careful in this situation. Rovees, I think he should have come forward day one. I think he owes something to the family, like a phone call, conversation. Let me explain what happened was going on. That's what you do if you're innocent, Oh, you would think, but Robes day one, none of this made sense. If folks remember this case, and the first thing that a lot of people remember about this, why is naked man running up and down.
00:08:36
Speaker 2: The dock yes, exactly. And look this whole notion that potentially, you know, there were drugs involved all of that. Look, her family has come out flatly with their autopsy and said they do not believe Martha died from intoxicants, that it would be absolutely impossible. This wasn't about a drug overdose. This wasn't about what a lot of folks jumped to. So if it wasn't that, what was it.
00:09:01
Speaker 1: According to them, she violently met her end at the hands of this guy who has never said a word except through his attorney at times, whose Govin's given some bizarre statements for robes. They have sued this guy now for fifty million dollars and they're waiting for a response from him. This was filed very recently. Rose to yes, the clock starts ticking for thirty days he has to respond or there will be a fifty million dollar judgment automatically against him.
00:09:31
Speaker 3: And they filed this on August fourth.
00:09:35
Speaker 1: Just happened, and yet just happened. Why to quote recover damages for the wrongful death of Martha Nolan, to recover damages for the personal injuries, conscious pain and suffering robe they say aboard the vessel he assaulted her intentionally and wrongfully assaulted Martha Nolan, accuse him of gross negligence, reckless and wanton conduct. Robes. They are saying, directly, he did something to this woman physically. They are calling him a murderer.
00:10:09
Speaker 2: Yes, they are, because they say each of which acts described in above, individually and or in combination caused the decedents injury and death. That is an accusation of murder.
00:10:25
Speaker 1: And they are filing this for fifty million dollars. Haven't gotten a response yet to that one. But again Rome's reminder of folks, this was August. She had gone out on his boat with him, just the two of them, at night. They go out sailing a little bit on one or out on the water on one boat. They come back to his other, bigger boat that's docked, and the story goes Robes. They spend about an hour or so on the dock having drinks. But the first anybody's alerted that something is wrong is at midnight, when a naked man is running up and down the dock trying to wake everybody up, asking for help. Now, Robes, he claims, and this is why where the problem lies. He claims, She just what wet.
00:11:09
Speaker 2: Limp, went limp, and she was He knew she was gone immediately.
00:11:14
Speaker 1: She was gone immediately. He sat around ten thirty or.
00:11:18
Speaker 3: At the root ten thirty and eleven.
00:11:20
Speaker 1: Okay, nine one one wasn't called for an hour. He wasn't running up and down the dock for an hour screaming, panicking for help.
00:11:32
Speaker 3: What was he doing?
00:11:33
Speaker 1: What was he doing? Was she already dead at that point or is that just a made up timeline and that the panic happened immediately? Was that a ruse robes to be running up and down the dock? Why is he naked?
00:11:48
Speaker 2: Why have police not offered or why have his attorneys not offered this massive gap in his timeline? And I was thinking, why would he give police that timeline? If he knows the documented nine one one call is around midnight and that's when he was running up and down the dock naked, why would he not.
00:12:05
Speaker 3: Tell them she just passed out and died.
00:12:09
Speaker 2: And the only explanation is and I just gleaned this from what the attorney is saying in their autopsy or in their report that the amts reported her being cold. So he probably, I'm guessing he would have known that it would be very obvious she hadn't just passed out, or she hadn't just gone limp, or she hadn't just died because the body was cold at that point.
00:12:33
Speaker 3: So he had to say she died earlier. But I have no idea.
00:12:36
Speaker 2: We have no idea what he told police, if anything, about why there was this massive delay from when he claims he could tell she was dead versus when he's running up and down like a madman naked on the dock.
00:12:51
Speaker 1: Stay here, though, folks, he did have some logic an explanation, his attorney gay for why he was as naked running up and down that doc Also, the attorney gave a very bizarre answer when asked about the relationship between Martha Nolan and Christopher Darney.
00:13:22
Speaker 3: Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ.
00:13:24
Speaker 2: Yes, a renewed effort to finally get some answers about what happened to Martha Nolan in montak in August of last year. And that renewed effort is not coming from police. It's not coming from law enforcement or the prosecution's office. There is no big rallying cry to find justice.
00:13:45
Speaker 3: No, not from them.
00:13:46
Speaker 2: It's coming from her own family. Who has now filed a fifty million dollar wrongful death lawsuit and is asking the public for help.
00:13:56
Speaker 3: They have set up a tip.
00:13:58
Speaker 2: Line and a website to try and continue to find answers. And it's just a sad state to think that this is now in a family's hands who doesn't even live in this country.
00:14:12
Speaker 1: It's that sucks for them, rogue. There's someone's distance between them that he can't be here, can't be connected connected, And even do you fly here, robes, you gotta fly to New York City, and then you got a three plus hour drive to get out. It's just difficult for them to get in and on. That's that's got to be painful. But they have local attorneys now who are helping them along the way. We mentioned Christopher Dernhan's attorney. The answer this adds to the mystery, right robes for why he was naked running up and down the dock. If he was just having drinks with a client or a friend or a business partner or whatever it may be, there was there was not much of an explanation. I thought that I could come up with robes, but they had one.
00:14:55
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because apparently I don't really understand at what point she vomited, But he claims she vomited on him and he was just covered in her vomit, so he had to take his clothes off. Now, this would be easily discernible. I would imagine with police being on the boat, they could find said clothes stained in vomit and verify that that's the reason why he took them off. So but even if that's the case, the way the only information we get from him is that she went limp. At what point did she vomit on him? If he said he knew she was gone immediately, he said he did try to give her CPR, But if she vomited on him when he was giving her CPR, that would mean she was still alive. And look, the only people to have actually known to have given her CPR are the folks from that other boat who he alerted to call nine one one. They're the ones who describe giving her CPR, and they didn't say anything about their.
00:15:54
Speaker 3: Being vomit vomit on the boat.
00:15:57
Speaker 2: I don't know, but there's just so many glaring holes in his story. As far as we understand. It's the limited information we've received as the.
00:16:08
Speaker 1: Public officially from authorities who could clear a lot of the stuff up that we're talking about. These questions have been asked over the year, and oftentimes the answer is, we don't have anything. There are no results of that, no comment, and no evidence of violence on our body is what we got. The other answer helped me here. I can't remember exactly how he fumbled this, but the attorney for Christopher Dernan, in talking about the relationship between the two, he made a suggestion robe that they might have had something romantic that you could understand if it really pissed off our family.
00:16:44
Speaker 2: Absolutely, he one hundred percent implied that there was some sort of sexual relationship between the two. And look, Martha Nolan was at the end of finalizing her divorce and was already in a relationship with a local man here from New York who she had brought home to meet her family, who, by all accounts, she was expecting to be engaged to shortly once her divorce became finalized. So she was not single and ready to mingle. She was in a committed relationship, and to suggest that somehow she was stepping out on her boyfriend or potentially was willing to have sex with an investor to get more money. All of that is obviously highly offensive. And so when he was pushed because the family, the friends, the boyfriend, they all pushed back and said that is categorically false because there was some implication that Dernan had even met her family, like they were that close, that they had a relationship, that he had actually been a part of her life in that way. And every person who actually was friends, friendly and was related to Martha pushed back on that. And so then the defense attorney, not the defense attorney, his attorney.
00:17:56
Speaker 3: We'll get there, stepped back.
00:17:58
Speaker 2: He said, oh, well, I don't want to he my client doesn't want to say anything further because he doesn't want to basically disparage her reputation.
00:18:06
Speaker 1: See, that was the one that got That was a cop out, that was tacky. You left it hanging and didn't clear this up to let people speculate that I don't. I didn't. It could have been a fumble, it could have been an honest mistake, or it could have been it could be defend strategy moving forward. So I didn't. I didn't like that one bit.
00:18:27
Speaker 3: Absolutely not, I have to.
00:18:29
Speaker 1: Say, or I'm glad to see movement of some kind. If it has to come from family and lawsuits, fine, but I'm glad to see movement of some kind happening.
00:18:38
Speaker 2: Absolutely, because it's not acceptable to have the end of her life be a sentence that says the autopsy did not show evidence of violence and her final cause of death is pending. That that's never going to be okay for anyone who loved her, who knew her, they want answers, and they deserve answers, and frankly, at this point, the public deserves at least some acknowledgment from police about where this investigation stands. That would at least be something we haven't even gotten that. But hey, hopefully this tip line, this website, and this renewed effort by the family to remind us all of what happened to their loved.
00:19:18
Speaker 3: One and to ask anyone.
00:19:22
Speaker 2: Who was in the area for information. Let's hope that this leads to more developments, and of course we'll continue to follow this case. We always appreciate you joining us. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ.
00:19:31
Speaker 3: Holmes. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 1: Hey, that folks. It is Friday, August fourteenth, and after a year of almost nothing in the investigation and the death of Martha Nolan in montac there seem to be a lot of developments lately, including another significant one. They are asking for tips and with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. A year of almost nothing really and now a lawsuit and now attorneys and the family of Martha Nolan are making a plea to the public.
00:00:35
Speaker 2: Look, at some point, you have to take matters into your own hands when you aren't getting the help from police that, honestly, I think we should be able to expect, and I think that this family deserves and it's there's just been no information and it seems like there's been little to no communication with the Nolan family about where the investigation stands. Hell what even the damn autopsy says the official autopsy, They have theirs and we'll get into that because their lawyer has been talking specifically about what's inside and it is eyebrow raising. It is something that needs to be discussed and investigated and.
00:01:19
Speaker 3: Acknowledged, maybe even by the police.
00:01:21
Speaker 1: Something happened to her violently based on what the lawyer.
00:01:26
Speaker 2: Described, and that flies in the face of what police said initially, which was there was no violence.
00:01:33
Speaker 1: Noted Robes, her name is getting back in headlines again, and movement is happening. I think that's a positive. And I think even the folks in New York, the folks along Long Island, the folks certainly in Montague, deserve an answer. Somebody in their town died. A thirty three year old woman just died, and there is not an answer at all or even Robes at this point. And we complained about this recently. They act like they don't even care if the investigation is going on or to get answers to this family.
00:02:03
Speaker 2: Yet they're not even making a statement saying or acknowledging we understand the need for answers into what happened to this young woman, and we assure you this is an active investigation. We are following up on leads and even asking the public for help. But you know what, that plea didn't come from police. It's coming from the family.
00:02:26
Speaker 1: Yes, the family, through their attorneys, have now set up a website and a tip line. Robes they call Martha tipline dot com. I have just put this up they made an announcement about it. We're gonna let you hear what the attorney says about it here in just a second. This comes on the heel of them filing a fifty million dollar wrongful death lawsuit. Will give you a reminder of that in a second as well. But Robes I went through the law the website today they are they're making a plea for anybody who was anywhere and might know anything to come forward.
00:03:01
Speaker 2: Absolutely so on the website. This is what Martha's family has put out. On August fourth, twenty twenty six, we filed a wrongful death action against Christopher Dernan on behalf of the estate of Martha nolan oslattera. Martha was a thirty three year old fashioned entrepreneur who died while alone with mister Dernan aboard his vessel at the Star Island Yacht Club in.
00:03:26
Speaker 1: Montagu There's some emphasis on that if you didn't catch it who died alone with him, that is all true. They go on to say just their legal team the Britham is the name of this law firm, but they say they continue to investigate, asking anybody for information to come forward, specifically Robes. There layout we would like to hear from anyone who was at or near the Star Island Yacht Club on those days, worked at the club or a nearby business, saw or interacted with Martha or Christopher Dernan, if you witness any activity on around the dogs, had relevant information before or after communication, I should say, before or after her death, and even if you are unsure whether what you know is important, we want to hear from you. Robes. The lawsuit they filed suggested, yes, not suggested. They say directly that she died at the hands of Dernan. That says it directly. This, I guess Robes, they're still looking for it. Maybe they don't have enough yet, but they are. They think there's something out there, maybe somebody that knows something.
00:04:32
Speaker 2: Uh. That's right, because the lawyer put out this statement, he said, Martha's family has waited more than a year for answers, and we are committed to finding out all the information and evidence about what happened to her that night. We believe there are people who have information that can help. If you saw something, heard something, or know something about Martha, Christopher Durnan, or the events at the Star Island Yacht Club, please come forward.
00:05:00
Speaker 1: They might be the ones to have to do this and figure this out. Robes, And that's not going to be a good look for the police because it just from the beginning Robes it never felt like an active investigation.
00:05:11
Speaker 2: No, And to then hear that this independent autopsy by the family said that EMTs found blood in her mouth, on her chest and head, on the floor and behind her head, and that her body was cold despite the timeline given to them by Dernan that she had just lost consciousness. That how that to me if that's true, that that's in a police report or that EMTs reported that, and then obviously the autopsy that this family did independent of the medical examiner, how do we not have any information from police about where their investigation stands or that they're even investigating it as a possible homicide.
00:05:57
Speaker 1: Robes, I've said to you and I'm an apologies is a I don't want to cast displosions and in any way making an accusation, but this is what leads to thoughts of some body being protected. You can't be this disant Robes if this woman were smack dab in the midle of Manhattan, we ever stand for the and being having the local press here in New York wouldn't stand for this at all. Robes, given what the age she was, the circumstances, and how she looked, she would have been everywhere here in Manhattan. This story would have been front page every single day. Robes where it happened has at the end to be playing a role in why there isn't more coverage. It's a long way to go out there and report.
00:06:49
Speaker 3: It's a small local community, it is.
00:06:52
Speaker 2: And I am curious if I'm look, maybe I'm being naive here, but if I'm Christopher Durnett and look, this is a sixty year old entrepreneur I believe extremely wealthy. He had invested as much as two hundred thousand dollars into Martha's company. But if I'm Christopher Durnett and my name's out there the way it is as a possible suspect, and I have now a lawsuit filed against me, I am gonna want to have my name cleared. I am going to want to do everything to prove my innocence. I am going to want to make sure that police investigate this thoroughly. If I'm innocent, I want this thoroughly investigated so that I can clear my name, I have to say, I don't know.
00:07:35
Speaker 1: I don't know. You'd be worried of coming forward, putting your face to it, folks chasing you out down all the time in a high profile case, and also Ropes, you'd be worried that police would jump to a conclusion even if you are innocent. True.
00:07:48
Speaker 2: But now, at this point, his name is everywhere. The family is saying. What the family is saying, they believe he absolutely is directly responsible for causing her injury, harm, pain and suffering.
00:08:00
Speaker 3: So there's no escaping that.
00:08:02
Speaker 2: And now, like, wouldn't you want to be doing everything in your power to clear your name?
00:08:08
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would trust that. I would see why someone might be very careful in this situation. Rovees, I think he should have come forward day one. I think he owes something to the family, like a phone call, conversation. Let me explain what happened was going on. That's what you do if you're innocent, Oh, you would think, but Robes day one, none of this made sense. If folks remember this case, and the first thing that a lot of people remember about this, why is naked man running up and down.
00:08:36
Speaker 2: The dock yes, exactly. And look this whole notion that potentially, you know, there were drugs involved all of that. Look, her family has come out flatly with their autopsy and said they do not believe Martha died from intoxicants, that it would be absolutely impossible. This wasn't about a drug overdose. This wasn't about what a lot of folks jumped to. So if it wasn't that, what was it.
00:09:01
Speaker 1: According to them, she violently met her end at the hands of this guy who has never said a word except through his attorney at times, whose Govin's given some bizarre statements for robes. They have sued this guy now for fifty million dollars and they're waiting for a response from him. This was filed very recently. Rose to yes, the clock starts ticking for thirty days he has to respond or there will be a fifty million dollar judgment automatically against him.
00:09:31
Speaker 3: And they filed this on August fourth.
00:09:35
Speaker 1: Just happened, and yet just happened. Why to quote recover damages for the wrongful death of Martha Nolan, to recover damages for the personal injuries, conscious pain and suffering robe they say aboard the vessel he assaulted her intentionally and wrongfully assaulted Martha Nolan, accuse him of gross negligence, reckless and wanton conduct. Robes. They are saying, directly, he did something to this woman physically. They are calling him a murderer.
00:10:09
Speaker 2: Yes, they are, because they say each of which acts described in above, individually and or in combination caused the decedents injury and death. That is an accusation of murder.
00:10:25
Speaker 1: And they are filing this for fifty million dollars. Haven't gotten a response yet to that one. But again Rome's reminder of folks, this was August. She had gone out on his boat with him, just the two of them, at night. They go out sailing a little bit on one or out on the water on one boat. They come back to his other, bigger boat that's docked, and the story goes Robes. They spend about an hour or so on the dock having drinks. But the first anybody's alerted that something is wrong is at midnight, when a naked man is running up and down the dock trying to wake everybody up, asking for help. Now, Robes, he claims, and this is why where the problem lies. He claims, She just what wet.
00:11:09
Speaker 2: Limp, went limp, and she was He knew she was gone immediately.
00:11:14
Speaker 1: She was gone immediately. He sat around ten thirty or.
00:11:18
Speaker 3: At the root ten thirty and eleven.
00:11:20
Speaker 1: Okay, nine one one wasn't called for an hour. He wasn't running up and down the dock for an hour screaming, panicking for help.
00:11:32
Speaker 3: What was he doing?
00:11:33
Speaker 1: What was he doing? Was she already dead at that point or is that just a made up timeline and that the panic happened immediately? Was that a ruse robes to be running up and down the dock? Why is he naked?
00:11:48
Speaker 2: Why have police not offered or why have his attorneys not offered this massive gap in his timeline? And I was thinking, why would he give police that timeline? If he knows the documented nine one one call is around midnight and that's when he was running up and down the dock naked, why would he not.
00:12:05
Speaker 3: Tell them she just passed out and died.
00:12:09
Speaker 2: And the only explanation is and I just gleaned this from what the attorney is saying in their autopsy or in their report that the amts reported her being cold. So he probably, I'm guessing he would have known that it would be very obvious she hadn't just passed out, or she hadn't just gone limp, or she hadn't just died because the body was cold at that point.
00:12:33
Speaker 3: So he had to say she died earlier. But I have no idea.
00:12:36
Speaker 2: We have no idea what he told police, if anything, about why there was this massive delay from when he claims he could tell she was dead versus when he's running up and down like a madman naked on the dock.
00:12:51
Speaker 1: Stay here, though, folks, he did have some logic an explanation, his attorney gay for why he was as naked running up and down that doc Also, the attorney gave a very bizarre answer when asked about the relationship between Martha Nolan and Christopher Darney.
00:13:22
Speaker 3: Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ.
00:13:24
Speaker 2: Yes, a renewed effort to finally get some answers about what happened to Martha Nolan in montak in August of last year. And that renewed effort is not coming from police. It's not coming from law enforcement or the prosecution's office. There is no big rallying cry to find justice.
00:13:45
Speaker 3: No, not from them.
00:13:46
Speaker 2: It's coming from her own family. Who has now filed a fifty million dollar wrongful death lawsuit and is asking the public for help.
00:13:56
Speaker 3: They have set up a tip.
00:13:58
Speaker 2: Line and a website to try and continue to find answers. And it's just a sad state to think that this is now in a family's hands who doesn't even live in this country.
00:14:12
Speaker 1: It's that sucks for them, rogue. There's someone's distance between them that he can't be here, can't be connected connected, And even do you fly here, robes, you gotta fly to New York City, and then you got a three plus hour drive to get out. It's just difficult for them to get in and on. That's that's got to be painful. But they have local attorneys now who are helping them along the way. We mentioned Christopher Dernhan's attorney. The answer this adds to the mystery, right robes for why he was naked running up and down the dock. If he was just having drinks with a client or a friend or a business partner or whatever it may be, there was there was not much of an explanation. I thought that I could come up with robes, but they had one.
00:14:55
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because apparently I don't really understand at what point she vomited, But he claims she vomited on him and he was just covered in her vomit, so he had to take his clothes off. Now, this would be easily discernible. I would imagine with police being on the boat, they could find said clothes stained in vomit and verify that that's the reason why he took them off. So but even if that's the case, the way the only information we get from him is that she went limp. At what point did she vomit on him? If he said he knew she was gone immediately, he said he did try to give her CPR, But if she vomited on him when he was giving her CPR, that would mean she was still alive. And look, the only people to have actually known to have given her CPR are the folks from that other boat who he alerted to call nine one one. They're the ones who describe giving her CPR, and they didn't say anything about their.
00:15:54
Speaker 3: Being vomit vomit on the boat.
00:15:57
Speaker 2: I don't know, but there's just so many glaring holes in his story. As far as we understand. It's the limited information we've received as the.
00:16:08
Speaker 1: Public officially from authorities who could clear a lot of the stuff up that we're talking about. These questions have been asked over the year, and oftentimes the answer is, we don't have anything. There are no results of that, no comment, and no evidence of violence on our body is what we got. The other answer helped me here. I can't remember exactly how he fumbled this, but the attorney for Christopher Dernan, in talking about the relationship between the two, he made a suggestion robe that they might have had something romantic that you could understand if it really pissed off our family.
00:16:44
Speaker 2: Absolutely, he one hundred percent implied that there was some sort of sexual relationship between the two. And look, Martha Nolan was at the end of finalizing her divorce and was already in a relationship with a local man here from New York who she had brought home to meet her family, who, by all accounts, she was expecting to be engaged to shortly once her divorce became finalized. So she was not single and ready to mingle. She was in a committed relationship, and to suggest that somehow she was stepping out on her boyfriend or potentially was willing to have sex with an investor to get more money. All of that is obviously highly offensive. And so when he was pushed because the family, the friends, the boyfriend, they all pushed back and said that is categorically false because there was some implication that Dernan had even met her family, like they were that close, that they had a relationship, that he had actually been a part of her life in that way. And every person who actually was friends, friendly and was related to Martha pushed back on that. And so then the defense attorney, not the defense attorney, his attorney.
00:17:56
Speaker 3: We'll get there, stepped back.
00:17:58
Speaker 2: He said, oh, well, I don't want to he my client doesn't want to say anything further because he doesn't want to basically disparage her reputation.
00:18:06
Speaker 1: See, that was the one that got That was a cop out, that was tacky. You left it hanging and didn't clear this up to let people speculate that I don't. I didn't. It could have been a fumble, it could have been an honest mistake, or it could have been it could be defend strategy moving forward. So I didn't. I didn't like that one bit.
00:18:27
Speaker 3: Absolutely not, I have to.
00:18:29
Speaker 1: Say, or I'm glad to see movement of some kind. If it has to come from family and lawsuits, fine, but I'm glad to see movement of some kind happening.
00:18:38
Speaker 2: Absolutely, because it's not acceptable to have the end of her life be a sentence that says the autopsy did not show evidence of violence and her final cause of death is pending. That that's never going to be okay for anyone who loved her, who knew her, they want answers, and they deserve answers, and frankly, at this point, the public deserves at least some acknowledgment from police about where this investigation stands. That would at least be something we haven't even gotten that. But hey, hopefully this tip line, this website, and this renewed effort by the family to remind us all of what happened to their loved.
00:19:18
Speaker 3: One and to ask anyone.
00:19:22
Speaker 2: Who was in the area for information. Let's hope that this leads to more developments, and of course we'll continue to follow this case. We always appreciate you joining us. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ.
00:19:31
Speaker 3: Holmes. We'll talk soon.