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White/Caucasian male Kent John Leppink, age 36, left Michigan for Alaska's fishing grounds and settled into a tangled life in Anchorage. By spring of 1996, the 36-year-old man was enmeshed in a fraught triangle with his former fiancée, Mechele Linehan, and their on-again, off-again roommate John Carlin III. On May 2, 1996, the 36-year-old was found dead near a lonely stretch outside Hope, about 90 miles south of Anchorage, shot three times with a. 44-caliber handgun; shell casings lay nearby bu ...Read More
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Kent John Leppink
Male
White / Caucasian
Hope
AK
1996-05-02
36
Kent
John Leppink
Yes
11/13/2025
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Wow, this case is truly baffling. I want to focus on the letter Kent wrote to his parents, which he ... ...Read More
09/05/2023
09/05/2023
