The Paulson Family Murder

Already Gone Podcast

Nina Innsted

True Crime, History

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Possibly the most disturbing episode of the show to date. In March of 1982 41 year old Maris “Marty” Karklins entered the Paulson home on a Saturday afternoon. When he left, all five members of the family, Bob, Mary Jane and their three children, Cyndi, Carla and Casey were dead and the house would burn to the ground. A tragedy that rocked their family and the small, western Michigan town they called home.

Karklins would not be captured until July of 1982 when he fatally shot his mother, Milda Karklins in her Grand Rapids home.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the already gone podcast sharing stories of the missing, the
0:08.6	murdered, the mysterious, and the lost.
0:27.7	There are some stories that are so awful, so horrifying that they're hard to look at. The crime itself was so cruel and so senseless that it's hard to linger in that space for too long. Crimes that sound like an urban legend, but they're real.
0:36.9	The loss and the grief and the destruction, it's tangible. This isn't some whispered story. Today we're going to one of those places, one of the
0:47.5	darkest pages in Michigan's history, a case involving the destruction of two families at the hands of one troubled man.
0:57.6	Come with me to the spring of 1982, when the mere existence of Mary Jane Paulson, a happily married mother of three girls, drove
1:07.4	one man to do the unthinkable.
1:11.9	Allendale Township is a suburb of Grand Rapids, situated about a dozen miles to the west, between Grand Rapids and Lake Michigan.
1:20.0	In 1982, it was very much a small town. The 1980 census showed a population of 6,000 people.
1:28.6	It was a community where people knew each other, either from seeing one another at church or the local
1:35.0	hardware store, or perhaps you attended the same school function held at the township's only public
1:40.7	school, a kindergarten through 12th grade building where all the kids were
1:45.2	educated unless they went to the nearby parochial school. The Paulson family, Dad Bob, Mom Mary Jane, and their three daughters,
1:56.0	Cindy 18, Carla 13 and Casey, the youngest was 8.
2:02.0	They lived on a big piece of property, several acres in size, in a renovated farmhouse.
2:08.7	Bob, who worked as a sales representative, enjoyed working on the house in his spare time, and he spent many hours and many dollars making improvements to the home.
2:20.0	The family also enjoyed their in-ground swimming pool.
2:23.2	Bob hired out the pool installation, but he built the tidy pool house which held mechanical
2:28.0	and equipment.
2:30.4	It was a good life, and they were a beautiful family.
2:33.3	Bob and Mary Jane had been together about 20 years
2:37.0	and they were still a youthful couple.
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