Meat Cleavers & Ham Fishing

this part of the story is covered for now Joan married Birk Nelson in 1953, and Carlson married another woman in 1954 and had two daughters with her, yet he and Joan carried on an affair for years. In 1960 Joan became pregnant by Carlson. Birk, who had no idea, raised the boy, Blake, as his own. Joan finally divorced Birk in 1972, when Blake was twelve, and she and Blake moved in with Carlson, whom she then married. details of the account remain covered until revealed Carlson rammed Blake's car off the driveway with his own car, and after Blake damaged his stereo he ran out and hacked every window of the boy's car with a meat cleaver. He also told anyone who would listen that Joan was sleeping with her son.

In March 1978 Joan and Blake left and moved in with Joan's parents in Minneapolis. Joan filed for divorce and obtained a restraining order. By August the divorce was nearly final, and Joan was staying at her brother Glenn and sister-in-law Gloria Fay Nelson's cottage on Ham Lake, a few houses from the house Carlson shared with his roommate John Fossey and Fossey's two sons. On August 7th, 1978 Carlson spent the morning angry about money Joan had taken from his trust, phoned a bank trust officer, and at five in the afternoon called a neighbour to say Joan had a boyfriend. At about seven Fossey left and found Carlson watching the cottage through binoculars, muttering that Joan would not leave him alone.

Carlson drank a whole fifth of 160-proof vodka in screwdrivers between seven and nine while he watched the house, brooding on the restraining order and on Blake's defiance. Then he took a shotgun and a revolver, put spare shells in his pockets, drove to a driveway beside the Nelson cottage and walked up to the screen porch. He shot Blake in the neck at close range without saying anything. Joan ran to her son and was shot in the neck, which severed her spinal cord; a third blast hit a chair behind her. Carlson threw the shotgun down on the lawn, went into the house, shot Joan in the back of the head with the revolver from about two feet, then fired twice at Gloria Nelson as she spoke on the phone to a neighbour, hitting her in the left chest and shoulder. She survived and was treated at Fridley's Unity Hospital. Eight or nine people were in the house; they scattered, some jumping out of windows.

Carlson walked away and flagged down the police, telling them a crazy black man with a shotgun had just shot two people. The officers found Carlson smelled of alcohol but seemed normal. Glenn Nelson told them the man they had just spoken to was his ex-brother-in-law. Carlson was not picked up until the next morning, when he turned up at a neighbour's house and asked them to call the police. In a taped interview he described the killings in detail and said he understood that ambushing his wife and son with a shotgun was a no-no. He refused to sign the statement.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed Defence experts produced two EEGs, one taken after six ounces of vodka, which showed a mitten pattern said to appear in some mentally ill patients. The prosecution called him an obsessive, compulsive perfectionist and episodic alcoholic who knew exactly what he was doing. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed