"A parent would do anything to save a child's life if they have the option and he did the opposite," Porsch said, "kill his son. "No remorse, no 'I'm sorry,' no apologies, nothing," said District Attorney Barry Porsch, who described Karlsen as a sociopath who would likely die in state prison. 16, 2013, for the 2008 murder of his son Levi.
Karlsen said nothing when given the chance to speak. Before a packed courtroom at the Seneca County Courthouse, Karl Karlsen was sentenced to a 15 years to life sentence on Dec. Karlsen smirked when Colette Bousson, the sister of his first wife spoke, accusing him of leaving her sister in a burning house. "The knowledge that his release will be later rather than sooner has provided me, my children, and I know for sure, several members of the Karlsen family, a much more secure sleep at night than we have had in a long time," said Hohn, whose children were 3 and 5 when their father died. "You belong in prison and I suggest you belong there until you die," Seneca County Court Judge Dennis Bender told Karlsen in sentencing him on Monday, according to The Post-Standard of Syracuse.Ĭassie Hohn, Levi's ex-wife and the mother of his two daughters, told the judge she was overjoyed by Karl Karlsen's plea. The case is still under investigation, the Calaveras County District Attorney's Office said Monday. The death had been ruled an accident but Karlsen eventually admitted to jumping into the cab of the truck, causing it to fall, and leaving his son to die underneath while he attended an event with his wife.Īt the suggestion of Seneca County officials, investigators in Calaveras County, Calif., are reviewing the 1991 death of Karlsen's former wife, Christina Karlsen, in a fire that occurred three weeks after Karlsen purchased a $200,000 life insurance policy on her. The father was charged last year after investigators, at the request of suspicious relatives, began re-examining Levi Karlsen's death on the family's Finger Lakes property in Romulus. Karlsen was the sole beneficiary of Levi's insurance policy, purchased 17 days earlier. Karl Karlsen, 53, pleaded guilty in November to a charge of second-degree murder after admitting to shifting a truck off a jack and onto his son, Levi Karlsen, while he was working on it in 2008. A man who killed his son and then collected a $700,000 insurance payout that he had purchased on the 23-year-old less than three weeks earlier was sentenced Monday to 15 years to life in prison.
Levi’s death was originally ruled an accident, but in late 2012, Karlsen made statements to his estranged wife and then to the police admitting that he caused the truck to fall off the jack and onto Levi, and that he walked away, allowing Levi to die.WATERLOO, N.Y. After Levi’s death, Karlsen received the money. Seventeen days before the murder, Karlsen obtained a $700,000 life insurance policy on Levi’s life in which Karlsen was named as the sole beneficiary.
While Levi was lying underneath the elevated end of the truck, Karlsen caused the truck to fall off the jack and land on Levi’s chest, killing him.
Later that day in a detached garage on Karlsen’s property in the Town of Varick, Karlsen allegedly jacked up the front end of his pick-up truck with a wobbly jack and took off the front tires, and then had Levi perform work underneath the truck. 20, 2008, Karlsen, 56, took his 23-year-old son, Levi Karlsen, to a bank where he had a notary public witness Levi sign a hand-written purported will that left Levi’s estate to his father. The Seneca County District Attorney’s Office says on the morning of Nov. The New York Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court, rejected Karl Karlsen’s appeal of his 2013 guilty plea to crushing his son under a truck.
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