(I presume Levi's body was not autopsied, and do not know if officers took photographs of the death scene. As a result there was no criminal investigation into his sudden death. The Seneca County Coroner's Office classified the manner of Levi Karlsen's death as accidental. Levi Karlsen was pronounced dead on arrival at the Geneva General Hospital. The father lifted the pickup off his son with the jack and pulled his body out from under the truck. When Karl returned to the garage about four hours later he found that the vehicle had toppled off the jack. Karl Karlsen told deputies from the Seneca County Sheriff's Office that when he and Cindy left the farm to attend a family event that afternoon at four, Levi had been working beneath the jacked-up truck. In the Karlsen garage on the floor near the truck emergency technicians found Levi.
At eight o'clock that evening, Cindy Karlsen called 911 to report an accident involving Karl's son Levi. A graduate of the Romulus Area High School, Levi, the father of two girls, was employed as a machine operator at a glass manufacturing company in nearby Geneva. On November 20, 2008, Karl Karlsen's 23-year-old son Levi was in his father's garage working on a pickup truck. Shortly after the blaze that took his wife's life, Karl and his children moved to Seneca County, New York where he used his $200,000 fire insurance payout to buy a farm near Varick, a small town 55 miles southwest of Syracuse in the Finger Lakes region of the state.Īfter moving to New York State Karl married his second wife Cindy who helped him run the farm.
While Christina Karlsen's father, Art Alexander, suspected foul play, no charges were filed in connection with his daughter's death. (Almost all serious car fires are incendiary, burned for the insurance money.) Notwithstanding suspicions of arson, the cause of the fatal house fire went into the books as undetermined. The speed and intensity of the fire, the multiple points of origin, the condition of the children, and the fact a vehicle Karl Karlsen owned had gone up in flames a year earlier, pointed to a possible arson-murder case. (I don't know if the fire investigator interviewed the children.) (I don't know if the cause and origin investigator found traces of accelerants to back up his incendiary fire suspicions or if Christina Karlsen had been autopsied to determine if she had been alive at the time of the fire.) The fire investigator, based on the fact there was no physical evidence consistent with the children having been exposed to smoke and soot didn't believe the youngsters had been in the house when the fire started.
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He managed, he said, to pull his children out of the burning structure though their bedroom windows but had not been able to save his wife.Īn arson investigator looking into the cause and origin of the blaze, after finding what he interpreted as separate areas of deep charring on the floor ( burn patterns suggesting multiple points of origin), suspected that the Karlsen fire had been set. Questioned about the fast-developing house fire, Karl Karlsen told fire officials and the police that when it started he had been in the garage. While Karlsen's three young children were safe, his 31-year-old wife Christina did not make it out of the inferno. The fire had gotten so intense it had blown out the windows. On January 1, 1999, when firefighters in the north central California town of Murphys arrived at Karl Karlsen's one-story house, the dwelling was already engulfed in flames.
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