Karl Karlson collected on a $200,000 insurance policy and then moved to New York state with his three children, including Levi, then 5. Yook said she has assigned Deputy District Attorney Jeff Stone to the case, and that Stone, who is also a fire chief, has expertise in arson investigations.Ĭhristina Karlsen died New Year's Day 1991 in a fire at her home at the far end of Pennsylvannia Gulch Road, a twisting, narrow country lane that starts in Murphys. Yook expressed her compassion for relatives of Christina Karlsen and Levi Karlsen who have to endure the long wait for a decision on whether to prosecute Karl Karlsen in the 1991 fire. "We have to review the evidence we have now under California law." "Their opinion of the case is their opinion of the case," Yook said. ![]() Yook bristled at the suggestion that Seneca County authorities were being more aggressive at pursuing Karlsen than those in Calaveras County. I can't comment on the status of the evidence," Yook said. "All I can say is that it is still under review. Yook said Wednesday that her office is working on the case. Let us know you are working on it, and I can't even get that," Bousson said. 'Oh, we are working on it, there isn't any evidence,'" said Collette Bousson, Christina Karlsen's sister, describing the response she had from Calaveras prosecutors. "It is the same thing that my family and I have gotten every since my sister's death. ![]() "It is unfortunate that Karl was not brought to justice back in 1991," said Jeff Arnold, a violent crimes investigator with the New York State Police who has been assisting Seneca County authorities in New York with work on the 2008 death of Levi Karlsen.Īlso unfortunate, say members of Christina Karlsen's family, is what they see as the failure of Calaveras County District Attorney Barbara Yook to go after Karl Karlsen today, now that New York law enforcers have offered their help. He's facing charges in New York in the death of his son.Īnd relatives of his wife say they've been trying for years to get authorities in Murphys to look more deeply at whether he was also culpable in her death. Yet an investigator familiar with the matter says their ends have a sinister similarity: In both cases, Karl Karlsen, Christina's husband at the time and Levi's father, collected large life insurance payments after their deaths. The two died 17 years apart, and on opposite sides of the continent. MURPHYS - Grave markers for Christina Ann Karlsen and her son, Levi, share a small, tree-shaded plot in Murphys Cemetery.
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