In 2017, Best was in the process of writing a book titled, ‘Next in Line: I Married a Murderer.’ However, details regarding its publishing date are still not available. This would be the evidence that would eventually lead to the arrest of Karl Karlsen for the second-degree murder of his son and, ultimately, the death of his wife. Hence, Cindy worked with the police to get him to talk, with the ruse of getting back with him if he could be honest with her. By then, Cindy had already left him along with her son, Alex. The second time she went to him wearing the wire, he said that he utilized the ‘opportunity’ of Levi’s accident, and took advantage of the situation. Though he admitted his involvement in Levi’s death the first time, the authorities could only hear static. She then spoke to the police investigators and decided to confront Karl wearing a wire. I’m scared, but I can’t go to law enforcement until we get enough evidence.” Best also said that if she were to die, Karl would get $ 1.2 million. I’m not sure, but maybe he killed Christina. She said, “I had called my cousin…and told her my fears: ‘I think Karl might have killed Levi. But, Best eventually started putting two and two together to realize that she might be next in line in Karl’s agenda, at least based on his previous track record. Initially, she was not even aware of Karl ever having made his son Levi take life insurance however, when she did get to know about it, she did not think much of it. While the police investigators were finding a lead on Karl’s history of collecting insurance money at the death of his family members, Cindy was making her own conclusions, which scared her beyond measure. On Karlsen’s orders, she placed the call to 911, wherein she narrated how she had found her step-son dead under the truck, which would later be ruled as an accident. Photo Credit: Cindy Best/ABC 20/20Ĭindy Best was present when the truck had fallen on Levi Karlsen, while he was repairing it. But what she did not see coming was the kind of involvement he would have in his previous wife’s death, and subsequently, his son’s death. Based on her segment with ’20/20′, she married Karlsen, knowing that he was a widower with three children. The couple stayed married for 18 years, a long time before Best started picking up on the odd things Karlsen would say and do. The two got married two years after the death of Christina Karlsen. 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.Cindy Best is Karl Karlsen’s second wife.
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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