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He Killed Them All // The Karl Karlsen M...

Ray William Johnson
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Karl Karlsen is an American murderer convicted of killing his first wife, Christina Karlsen, in a staged 1991 California house fire and his 23-year-old son, Levi Karlsen, by crushing him under a truck in New York in 2008. Motivated entirely by financial gain.

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