She made several recordings, the first three using a digital gadget hidden in her bra. ‘I would be worth $1.2 million dead to Karl,’ she testified during a pretrial proceeding.Īfter speaking to sheriff's investigators last year, she agreed to wear a wire to secretly record her husband. She learned Karlsen had invested some of the insurance money from his son's death into a life insurance policy on her. That's what prompted her to work with police, leading to second-degree murder and insurance fraud charges against Karl Karlsen in the death of his 23-year-old son, Levi.Īnd New York and California authorities are now taking a new look at the circumstances of the 1991 death of his former wife, Christina Karlsen.Ĭindy Karlsen's cooperation evolved from an unnerving revelation a year before she came forward.
Wire-tapped: Karl Karlsen was recorded by his wife explaining how a truck his son was working on was precariously balanced In the police interrogation tapes, also obtained by ABC News, he said: 'I found him dead. Police arrested Karlsen soon after and interrogated him for ten hours, in which he denied killing his son 75 times. 'No, I said I had nothing to do - but I said I took advantage of the situation once it happened.' 'I didn't push the truck, I said,' Karlsen said after Cindy asked him for the truth in Levi's death. On the tapes, obtained by ABC's Nightline, the 52-year-old can be heard telling Cindy while they were in a restaurant that he had removed his truck's front tires and raised it on a single jack before Levi volunteered to do the repair. Karlsen cashed in on a $200,000 life insurance policy soon after. Second wife: Knowing about the insurance payout on his son, when Cindy, pictured, found out her husband took out a $1.2million policy on her, she grew suspicious and feared for her lifeīefore the death of his son Levi in 2008, for which he received a $700,000 life insurance payout, his first wife Christina perished in a house fire after getting trapped in the bathroom in 1991.
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