A New York man who killed his son to be able to collect benefits payouts has been sentenced to prison. A man named Karl Karlsen, who, in November, pled guilty to a charge of second degree murder of his son in order to commit life insurance fraud, has now been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. The man was able to collect the payout of $700,000 on his son’s policies, as he was the beneficiary. Karlsen, 53 years old, admitted to shifting a truck off a truck under…
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Life insurance claim behind a murder in New York
A man in the state has admitted to killing his son in order to collect on the $700,000 policy. A man in upstate New York has now admitted that he deliberately killed his son in a scheme to be able to allow him to collect on a life insurance policy that would pay him $700,000. The man quite suddenly admitted that he crushed his son under a truck in order to receive the payout. The guilty plea came from Karl Karlsen in a second degree murder case. It was put…
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