Mechele Linehan Sentenced to 99 Years for Shooting Death of Fiancé

Mechele Linehan, the former stripper who was convicted in October of plotting to kill her fiancé in 1996, was sentenced to 99 years in prison on Wednesday.

According to prosecutors Linehan, 35, plotted with another man to kill her fiancé, Kent Leppink, in hopes that she would collect on a $1 million insurance policy.

In January, John Carlin III, was sentenced to 99 years for pulling the trigger and killing Leppink. That event unfolded on a rural trail outside Anchorage, Alaska and left the community stunned, a feeling that Superior Court Judge Philip Volland expanded on when he said “It was a calculated homicide accomplished through deceit, deception and manipulation. It was done for the most venal of reasons and it was dismissed by the two participants in the most casual of ways. It was a man killed by his friend and his fiancé.”

It was believed that Linehan used the film “The Last Seduction” as a blueprint for the murder, luring her fiancé to the spot where he was killed. A former co-worker had said the main character of the film "was her heroine and that she wanted to be just like her.”

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