it was all surreal, it still is. things like that don t happen to small town people. i was very scared, i was worried that i was going to be next. he was the friendly former about to make it big on reality tv. he loved being on tv. a success to celebrate after so much loss, his first wife killed in an awful of fire. i was devastated this is my sister she was just this sweet giving person. they called it a horrible accident, but here is the thing. accidents just seemed to keep happening, deadly ones. these things kept coming up, intuitions that something wasn t right. wife number two had a growing suspicion. and she also had a plan. i had actually watched an episode of dateline and i had a revelation. a dangerous mission, was her own life at risk? this is a mystery that won t and, you couldn t write the story. hello and welcome to dateline. the death of a young mother in my house fire was almost too much for her family to bear. then, years later another d
sister she was just this sweet giving person. they called it a horrible accident, but here is the thing. accidents just seemed to keep happening, deadly ones. these things kept coming up, intuitions that something wasn t right. wife number two had a growing suspicion. and she also had a plan. i had actually watched an episode of dateline and i had a revelation. a dangerous mission, was her own life at risk? this is a mystery that won t and, you couldn t write the story. hello and welcome to dateline. the death of a young mother in my house fire was almost too much for her family to bear. then, years later another devastating accident and another loved one gone. was this just a string of bad luck or the work of a calculating killer? here is andrea canning with deadly deceit. snapshots of a time gone by. capturing a life that could have been. now all that is left or the burned out remnants of the life that is gone. i ve seen the destruction in my family. i have
family, they ll never be able to overcome. it appeared someone was listening. in 2014, karl carlson was charged with first degree murder in the 1991 death of his wife christina, he was extradited to calaveras county in california where he pleaded not guilty. then, in january 2020, the case went to trial, the prosecution made the case that carlson killed christina for the same reason he killed levi. the life insurance. life insurance on his wife or $200,000. just three weeks after carl took out that policy, christina was dead. this was his plan, the da said, this was carlson s deadly ammo. but now it was the defenses turn to fight back. carl s attorneys told jurors they couldn t draw any conclusions based on carl s guilty plea in levi s death.
took a particular interest in christina and the fire that killed her. just imagine yourself, here in this bathroom taking a bath, and you smell smoke, and it s coming through your door and there is an inferno outside of your door you turn to the only window in the bathroom and it is covered with a sheet of plywood. investigator arnold said that pretty much everything carl carlson has ever said about the fire is ally. beginning with the kerosene that fueled it. he says that the kerosene got spilled in the house on sunday. that was a few days before the fire. but a california arson vest a gator from carpet stain that showed a second career scenes bill happened moments before the fire started. investigator arnold said that could only mean one thing.
he sat upright and looked out of the window and said you know, oh my god, call 9-1-1, the barn is on fire. cindy did call 9-1-1 and her brother in law. what s the carl say to you when you arrived? he mentioned that the horses were still in there. the carlson s had been breeding belgian horses, their loss and the loss of the old barn was devastating to the family. levi exploded, he said some terrible things and he and karl came to blows. levi got in his truck to get away from carl and karl chased after him. i was yelling at carl, just let him go, leave him alone. let him go. but levi was never able to stay away for long, he ended cassie included carl in the rest of the family in their