April 25th, 2023:
Your support and your voice made a difference.
We are relieved to be able to share the news with you that Angelo Pavageau’s sentence was extended for another 3 years.
No judge or jury was involved in significantly reducing the brutal killer’s sentence. The sentence was not changed because it merited change, it was changed automatically when the Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional.
Read the Transcript of the April 2023 Hearing
Frank Carlson was brutally murdered in 1974.
His killer was convicted and sentenced to death. The sentence was changed in 1976 to Life in Prison, with parole.
No judge or jury was involved in significantly reducing the brutal killer’s sentence. The sentence was not changed because it merited change, it was changed automatically when the Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional.
For Frank.
For Annette.
For victims and the safety of their families.
We continue to fight.
On the evening of April 18, 1974
A deranged, psychopathic killer broke into the home of my older brother, Frank Carlson, and his wife, Annette.
He wanted money. They gave him what they had. He wanted more.
He forced Annette to tie Frank up. He went on to torture and beat Frank to death with things he found in their home.
Once Frank was dead, the killer took Annette upstairs where he would spend the next four hours repeatedly raping and beating her. When he was finished, he left her for dead. To cover his crimes he poured paint thinner around the house and set it on fire. He left with stolen jewelry he would later pawn.
But Annette Carlson survived and lived to identify the killer. He was captured and convicted of first-degree murder, rape, torture, arson, burglary and other offenses. He was sentenced to death by a jury of his peers.
But that never happened.
Instead, my family has been forced to endure repeated, ongoing parole hearings for the murderer that began in 1980. In April, 2023. I will confront the killer at his 18th parole hearing.
For more than 40 years we have borne witness to the horrors of this event and done our part to remind the California State Board of Parole about the consequences of this crime and its lasting effect on society. Until the end of their days, my parents were forced to relive this event at each hearing. Now Annette and I are continuing this painful, unending quest to see that justice is done. But we need your help.
48 Years Later:
The Fight Continues
For almost 50 years, we have borne witness to the horrors of this event and have done our part to remind the California State Board of Parole about the consequences of this crime and its lasting effect on society. Until the end of their days, my parents were forced to relive this event at each hearing.
Our Mission
To provide awareness and build support for victim’s rights and ensure that the justice system acts in the best interest of the public, protecting family members and providing peace of mind for years to come.
“My family has been forced to endure ongoing parole hearings for the offender that began in 1980. Next year, in April, 2023 I will confront the killer at his 18th parole hearing.”
— Eric Carlson, Frank’s brother
Why We Continue to Fight for Justice!
Keep peace of mind for Frank’s family
Keep a convicted murder, torturer and rapist behind bars where he belongs
Keep the Bay Area, the streets of San Francisco and all of California safe
Assure victims and their loved ones everywhere that people care…and care enough to act.
Frank Carlson's brother, Eric Carlson, shares the story of his family’s fight
Eric Carlson’s 2020 Statement to the Board of Parole Hearings
