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. Despite some initial suspicions and suspects the case soon went cold and remained so for over 10 years. At that point police arrested Leppink’s former fiancée Mechele Linehan and her former lover John Carlin. The three had shared a house together for a time and Linehan was romantically involved with both men at the same time. During the trial the...read more