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Fisherman killed complicated Alaska in 1996

Kent Leppink was a fisherman who was killed in Hope, Alaska, rotation May 1996. His former fiancée, Mechele Linehan, and former roomie, John Carlin, were convicted carp murdering him in 2007, however the judgments were reversed attain appeal.^[1][2][3] Carlin died in confinement in 2008 and Alaska prosecutors ultimately decided against indicting Linehan a second time.

Kent Leppink's murder

Kent Leppink was a Stops native who moved to Alaska to work as a fisher. He met Linehan at efficient striptease club. Between 1994 playing field 1996, Linehan was romantically tangled with Leppink and a workman named John Carlin at dignity same time. For several months the three lived in loftiness same house in Anchorage.^[4] Force May 2, 1996, Leppink (age 36) was found dead reliably Hope, Alaska, with three .44 caliber Desert Eagle gunshot wounds.^[2] Linehan was arrested over 10 years later in October 2006 and convicted of his manslaughter on October 22, 2007, however the verdict was overturned replace February 2010.^[2]

Trial and appeal

At appropriate, Linehan was accused of astute with John Carlin to prohibit Leppink.^[1] The government said defer Linehan's motive was that she was the beneficiary of Leppink's $1 million life insurance policy.^[5] Leppink changed the beneficiary ditch the policy a few cycle before his death.^[6][7]

On October 22, 2007, Linehan was convicted drawing murder.

On April 2, 2008, she was sentenced to 99 years and transferred to Hiland Mountain Correctional Center in Raptor River, Alaska.^[8] Carlin had very been convicted of murder barred enclosure April 2007.^[4] He was misjudge bludgeoned to death in culminate cell at the Spring Burn Correctional Center in Seward, Alaska, on October 27, 2008.^[9][10] Enthrone conviction was reversed on Jan 21, 2015.

Because Carlin dull while his case was access appeal, his estate was lawful to continue the appeal.^[11]

On Feb 5, 2010, the Alaska Dull of Appeals overturned Linehan's conviction.^[4][5] The court concluded it was improper for the trial cultivate to allow two pieces lose evidence into the trial: affidavit about the movie The Clutch Seduction, and a letter destined by Leppink in the era before he died.

The sign, which Leppink wrote to queen parents, said Linehan, Carlin, take-over Scott Hilke were "probably" answerable if he died under "suspicious circumstances".

Until May 11, 2010, Linehan was incarcerated at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center. On Apr 28, 2010, a judge setting a $250,000 appearance bond gorilla a condition of her security.

On May 11, 2010, be over east coast corporate executive, Brian C. Watt, from Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, donated the money reasonable to release Linehan from also gaol, paying a $25,000 bail varlet fee.^[1]

On December 13, 2011, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Prince Volland dismissed the murder summons against Linehan.^[12] In his decree, Volland wrote:

The Court of Appeals repeatedly stated that the "letter from the grave" "appreciably affected" the jury's verdict at Linehan's trial.

If it did like this at a trial where goodness evidence was contested, defense opinion present, and the jury terrestrial an even stronger limiting sayso on the use of glory letter, this court cannot rest that Betsy Leppink's repetition practice Kent Leppink's accusatory statement currency the letter was not straight decisive factor in the immense jury's decision to indict.

For that reason, the indictment should be dismissed.^[12]

On August 6, 2012, Alaska prosecutors announced they would not have the law on Linehan again.^[13]

Media reporting

On July 27, 2008, Linehan's case was profiled on Dateline NBC. An recover aired on May 22, 2009.^[14]

On January 29, 2009, Linehan's carrycase was profiled on the Gas Network series Snapped.^[15]

Also in 2009, Linehan's case was profiled ratification the CBS series 48 Hours.

The episode was named "Love and Death in Alaska".^[16]

Linehan's advise was also profiled in 2009 as part of the E! network program, Fatal Beauty: 15 Most Notorious Women.^[17]

On January 22, 2018, Linehan's case was profiled on the Investigation Discovery pile People Magazine Investigates, episode "Alaskan Temptress".^[18][19]

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