and yet you're able to get blown off the porch, open your eyes, your son's uninjured, you're able to grab your uninjuredwithout a mark on him, take him out of the house, run around, miraculously save your two daughters and let your wife -- and let your wife perish in this fire -- >> i didn't let her -- >> with no time to rip the board off the house and get into that bathroom and help her? >> by that time the fire was all the way around. what am i going to do? >> carlson insisted his first wife's death of a tragic accident. that's the same thing he was saying about levi's death on. november 6th, 2013, the very day his trial in levi's case was supposed to begin, he surprised nearly everyone and took a plea. >> karl karlson pled guilty to murder in the second degree in the seneca county court. taken responsibility for the death of his son levi. >> it's called depraved indifference murder -- >> seneca county d.a. barry porsche said karlsen would be given 15 years to life. at the same news conference, levi's sisters, erin and katie, thanked the investigation team. but then erin turned to the tragedy that sha