In this episode of Crime Watch Daily Updates: Some people have bad luck following them wherever they go. It certainly seemed that way for Karl Karlsen.
On January 1, 1991, Karl’s 30-year-old wife, Christina Karlsen, died in a house fire in their California home. Karl and their three kids managed to escape the flames and moved to upstate New York with the $200,000 he received from cashing out on his late wife’s life insurance policy.
Once in New York, he married a woman named Cindy. But tragedy followed Karl. His beloved horses died in a barn fire, and in 2008, his son Levi was crushed while working on a truck. Karl’s car even mysteriously blew up one day.
Was that all pure bad luck?
Just before Levi died, he and Karl signed a hefty life insurance that named Karl the sole beneficiary of Levi’s plan. When he died, Karl received $700,000.
Second wife Cindy soon learned Karl took out a life insurance policy worth over a million dollars on her, and she realized these deaths were hardly coincidental. Cindy contacted local law enforcement and they provided her with a wire to record any damning statements.
While at lunch one day, Karl confessed to pushing the truck on Levi, which Cindy caught on tape. Investigators in California reopened the case into his first wife’s death and found it wasn’t an accident.
Karl was eventually arrested in connection with Levi’s death and in 2013, pleaded guilty to killing the 23-year-old. He was sentenced to 15 years to life.
In 2020, Karl was convicted of killing Christina Karlsen and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Now, let’s look back at the case that proved one man’s series of seemingly tragic moments was hardly coincidental.
Wow – a whole new way of earning a living
Wife burned to death
3 horse burned to death.
He had no soul
Hi my name is Craig Ison Jr and the guy from the tv show Criminal Minds on CBS came through and paid me off. 1st he gave me a 80k dollar watch and about 2 million dollars. Thank you guys at Criminal Minds and Warren Ohio PD who we know are the real niggas in this bitch.
His a monster 👹 😢😢😢😢😢
Psychopath . Period.
It's always ny
Omg new years past
I’m glad that lady instinct kicked into action. Because she would have been definitely next!!! And she is alive TODAY because of heroic bravery.
Some people lack all normal human emotions!! Test your people and see their reactions. Sometimes its hard to tell but if you have suspicions. …listen to your instincts!
This man seems like a monster in murdering his wife & son. 😢
The second wife most likely felt like her husband was a monster and crook, but it probably opened her eyes when she found out she was going to be the next victim on the insurance fatality list ⚰️💯
He was going to kill her and his granddaughters. What a monster. Cindy is one hell of a woman, good on you girl. Your instincts saved your life and those little girl's too.
Hahahaha.. what a GREEDY monster.
Seriously killing your own son just because he’s gay yeah that shows you he’s a psychopath
WPS
Omgosh, those poor horses,,they belonged to our heavenly Father, now they're with our Father and no longer in pain and run free.
The video of this guys interrogation is beyond ridiculous. He tries for many hours to deny what he did. He's a murderer.
'The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Who can know it?' Why are people all shocked at the depraved acts of this man, even toward his own flesh & blood? Every human being has the capacity for the most heinous of evil. It's just that the vast majority of us don't ACT to such extremes, but do THINK to such extremes.
I hope he rots in 🔥 F'in monster
It takes a real B stard to burn horses.
He is a very evil person! 💔
How can a father kill their child for money? I would die for my children and grandchildren without a thought. I would love 15 minutes in a room with this guy.
Carl Carson was filled with unclean spirits…very demonic. There's no such thing as luck. This feral creature killed the woman who birthed him 3 children, then he killed one his children and some horses…and was planning on killing his 2nd wife. It doesn't get much more evil than that…all for some money
All the ads. Come on TCD, do better!
What kind of judge/jury gives a monster like this only 15 yrs for purposely killing his own son for the insurance money. And at this point, they knew that he was guilty of the other crimes……smh.
Cops didn’t save their lives.. the wife did
I always use to wonder how people could do this to their "loved ones". Then I discovered narcissists and sociopaths and then everything makes sense. Having no empathy or conscience for anybody allows them to do anything to anybody. They're very good at looking and acting normal. Wolves in sheep's clothing.
I think I heard about this Horrible situation on American Greed
Will forte?
"Like a kid who threw a window through a glass" I'm suprised this man made it as far as he did lmao
This “man” is a monster!!! Murdering a wife , horses and then his own son !!! Absolutely disgusting!!!! I definitely believe he would have killed again had he not been caught!!
I watched his interrogation and he is a very sick man. He spent hours denying everything. He has had like 6 insurance policies all high dollar and incidentally he was beneficiary on them all. He had 700k on his son but didn't give 1$ to his sons family AND he went out and got policies on his own granddaughters. Even tho they had him on tape from his wife he still denied it…saying she set him up. This guy was making money off of killing people. And got away with it. Until his son.