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  • Snapped Mechele Linehan (Season 7, Episode 4)
  • TV Episode | 43 min | Documentary, Crime

Snapped

Mechele Linehan (Season 7, Episode 4)
TV Episode | 43 min | Documentary, Crime
Beautiful 33-year-old Mechele Linehan appeared to be the perfect wife and mother. She and husband Colin met as college students and married in 1998. The couple eventually settled down with their daughter in Olympia, Washington, where Colin...See moreBeautiful 33-year-old Mechele Linehan appeared to be the perfect wife and mother. She and husband Colin met as college students and married in 1998. The couple eventually settled down with their daughter in Olympia, Washington, where Colin practiced medicine and Mechele got her Master's degree in public administration. Mechele was a model of the suburban supermom: active in her daughter's PTA, teaching Sunday school, and volunteering at a rape crisis center. Her friends and neighbors were shocked when, in October of 2006, she was arrested, along with a man named John Carlin, for the 1996 murder of Kent Leppink near Anchorage, Alaska. They were even more shocked when court papers revealed that, in 1996, Mechele had danced at an Anchorage strip joint. It was there that she had met both Leppink and Carlin. She also became engaged to both men - at the same time. When Leppink was found shot to death, Mechele became a suspect. Although police found plenty of motive - Mechele had taken out a $1 million life insurance policy on Leppink just months before his death - they didn't have enough evidence to charge her with the crime. Shortly after the murder, Mechele moved to New Orleans, where she met her husband, and started a new life. But, the Alaska police didn't drop the investigation. In 2004, when a new cold case unit was formed, investigators took a fresh look at Leppink's murder. A break came in 2005, when investigators tracked down Carlin's son, who said he had seen his dad and Mechele cleaning off a gun around the time of the murder. Carlin went to trial in March 2007 and was found guilty. Eight months later, a jury also convicted Mechele of first- degree murder. Both were sentenced to 99 years in prison. Written by Anonymous See less
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Writer
Matt Edens
Producer
Valerie Shepherd
Composer
Brian Langsbard
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Status
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Updated Jan 29, 2009
Release date
Jan 29, 2009 (United States)
Awards
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1 win & 1 nomination

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