He told investigators at the time that he was not able to go back for his wife. Karlsen was credited with saving Levi and the couple's two daughters, Erin and Katie, by getting them out of the burning home. When Levi Karlsen died in what was initially deemed an accident in 2008, leaving behind a wife and two daughters, his father cashed in on his $700,000 life insurance policy On New Year's Day in 1991, Christina, who was 30 at the time, died trapped in the bathroom of the couple's home in Murphys, California, after spilled kerosene and a faulty electric light ignited a fire. Karl's children long suspected Karlsen was responsible for their mother's death. The Dateline episode also features new interviews with Karlsen's second wife, Cindy, who helped police bring him to justice by wearing a wire, Christine's sister Colette Bousson and Karl's brother, Mike Karlsen. When the reporter presses Karlsen on whether he considers himself 'a victim of bad luck,' he offers a vague response, saying: 'If I told you everything, you wouldn't believe what's happened to me.' I've had horses died, I've had a barn fire.' 'I've had many other things in my life that. 'What would you call it?' Karlsen shoots back. 'Bad luck that they died?' Canning asks the convicted killer sitting across from her. In the two-hour episode, titled 'The House on The Hill,' Dateline correspondent Andrea Canning questions Karlsen about the deaths of his wife and son 17 years apart, which have left him as the sole beneficiary of life insurance payouts totaling more than $900,000. Latest episode of Dateline, airing at 9pm Friday, includes new interview with Karlsen himself as well as the victims' family membersīy Snejana Farberov For and Emily Crane.Karlsen was arrested after his second wife, Cindy, agreed to wear a wire when she learned he had taken a $1.5million life insurance policy in her name.In both cases, Karlsen became the sole beneficiary of the deceased relatives' life insurance policies.He is already serving 15 years to life in New York for orchestrating the murder of his 23-year-old son, Levi, who was crushed to death by a truck in 2008.Karl Karlsen, 60, was found guilty earlier this month of starting a fire at his family's home in California in 1991 that killed his wife, Christina.Man, 60, who murdered his wife and son 17 years apart to claim $900,000 worth of life insurance payouts compares their deaths to the 'bad luck' of losing a horse in chilling interview
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