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The House on the Hill

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

When Karl Karlsen’s wife, Christina, dies in a catastrophic house fire, he moves to upstate New York. Nearly 20 years later, his oldest son dies in a freak accident, leading police to question if Karl is involved. Andrea Canning reports. Originally aired on NBC on February 28, 2020.

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0:00.0

I look up and they're smoke coming out and I'm like what the I'm yelling for the kids and I hear daddy's coming daddy's coming

0:13.2

It's terrible dying in a fire and to know its family and someone you love and care for

0:20.7

This is my sister her life was really about giving to others

0:26.0

Nobody should have to go through what our family has gone through

0:32.1

Are you with your son right now? Is he breathing? No, here's a young kid now gone. It just didn't make sense

0:39.8

These thoughts kept coming up. I just think it was an intuition

0:46.0

I had watched an episode of Dateline and I like hid this revelation

0:50.6

I said well, what if I kind of go undercover

0:54.0

Part of me feel like I'm walking into a movie trap. Oh my god. I think he did it bad luck that they died

1:01.2

What would you call it? You're saying that you are completely 100% innocent. Yes

1:06.3

If I told you everything you wouldn't believe what's happened

1:15.4

If these hills could talk imagine the stories they tell

1:19.0

About the people who came here to California's gold rush country

1:24.5

Dreaming of a big break a last chance or a way out

1:29.8

The woman at the heart of this story had dreams of her own

1:33.8

This is how they ended her life was really about giving to others and she didn't care what she sacrificed to do that

1:41.8

That's the person that they'll never forget what a wonderful sweet person Chris was our

1:50.8

Story begins with a catastrophic fire in the old mining town of Murphy's, California

1:56.5

It was New Year's Day

1:58.5

1991 it seemed like every firefighter within radio range heard the call a woman was trapped in a burning house

2:05.8

That must be a scary feeling when you hear trapped. Yeah fire is a terrible thing

2:11.9

Rich went was a local business owner and volunteer firefighter one of many who raced up this treacherous windy road to reach the fire

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