Feb 14, 2025 · Kent Leppink was murdered in 1996 near Hope Alaska. Many media sources attribute his death to a love triangle gone wrong but the truth is so much more complicated. After decades have passed, multiple trials, convictions and appeals, no one is currently being held responsible for his death.

Kent Leppink was a fisherman who was killed in Hope, Alaska, in May 1996. His former fiancée, Mechele Linehan, and former roommate, John Carlin, were convicted of murdering him in 2007, but the judgments were reversed on appeal.

Jan 27, 2021 · Mechele Linehan, having turned into a suburban wife and mother, was convicted of Kent’s murder in October 2007. John Carlin had been convicted of the same in April. They both subsequently filed an appeal against their verdict, maintaining their innocence.

Jan 19, 2018 · An Anchorage jury determined Linehan, a former exotic dancer, had persuaded a former lover, John Carlin III, to kill Kent Leppink, 36, a fisherman who lived with her and told his family that...

Dec 27, 2015 · Kent Leppink was shot to death in the Alaskan wilderness. After a decade, the woman he'd hoped to marry, Michele Linehan - and another of her admirers, John Carlin - were charged with...

Jan 27, 2021 · In the murder-mystery case of who killed Kent Leppink back in 1996, new developments over the course of several years have changed the matter’s entire nature.

Jan 22, 2018 · Did an Alaska Fisherman Point to His Murderers in a Letter Before His Death? Kent Leppink, 36, was found fatally shot in 1996, and speculation about who killed him has swirled ever since.

Jan 23, 2018 · People Magazine Investigates the conviction of Mechele Linehan for murder and the later overturning of the verdict against her. Hope, Alaska, on May2 1996 and 36-year-old fisherman Kent Leppink was found dead, he’d been shot three times with a /44 caliber.

The future of a murder case against ex-stripper Mechele Linehan — formerly convicted of killing Shelby native Kent John Leppink in Alaska for his money — is unclear now that a judge has let...

Aug 8, 2012 · SHELBY, MI -- Mechele Linehan, the former stripper once convicted of murdering Shelby native Kent Leppink in Alaska, won't be prosecuted again. The Anchorage Daily News reported Tuesday that...