Mechele Linehan: Free Me Not!

Michele Linehan:


Free Me?

Michele Linehan: 


Free Me Not!

What grown woman talks baby talk? Mechele Linehan, in a distinct baby voice, gurgles, “It hurts me so badly that someone would think I would hurt their child.” Oh, vomit. MH loved her full-length fur coats as much as she loved animals.

Information posted on this blog derives from, at minimum, 48 Hours|Hard Evidence|Mystery’s “Love and Death in Alaska”; Dateline’s “The Stripper and the Steelworker”; Oxygen channel’s “Snapped”; Wikipedia; all articles on MH case as published in Alaska Daily News and Washington State-based The Olympian; “Free Me” web site; 38 Points of Appeal; an abundance of comments posted on web containing varying degrees of additional factual information; and further research into, e.g., Martindale & Hubbell attorney peer review ratings, Alaska statutes, bankruptcy law, etc.

There are two Mechele Linehans--Right!

Mechele Hughes (aka Linehan/MH) is best described by Judge Volland: “There are two Michele Linehans . . .” There is the Mechele with the criminal mindset and the Mechele who is a fake, i.e., currently not practicing multiple counts of a class B felony, i.e., theft by deception (Alaska Statute 11.46.120). It is also clear from the preponderance of circumstantial evidence that MH was aware, if not solicitor, of John Carlin’s intent to kill Kent Leppink, whom she conspired with JC to lure to Hope, Alaska. JC’s own email (3/31/96) expresses how frustrated he was by KL’s presence; MH in her cruel, psychopathic HAHAHA email to mother Sandy reveals the disdain MH felt toward KL; MH further discloses in another email to JC that she “needs him more than he will ever know”; and MH’s call to New York Life Insurance Company for a refund was, as the prosecution contended, a ruse, because MH was not owner of KL’s policy and thus lacked authority to make changes. The directive to JC in MH’s 4/27/96 email to inform KL, “if JC sees him,” that she went to Barrows to take care of Brett’s kids is also designed precisely to cover her participation in the Hope plan. KL was with his father during these several days (4/26/96 through 4/30/96), and the Hope plan against KL was implemented once KL’s father returned to Michigan.

MH was essentially overtaken by her estimable ability to coax loser men (marks) out of lots of money in exchange for the opportunity to receive her personal attention. MH latched onto JC and KL because they presented the ineluctable combination of being steadfastly in love with her and having large repositories of money, which they were willing to outcompete one another to spend on MH in order to win her affection. MH turned defrauding men out of money into a cottage industry, which she practiced both from home and in the home.

Exploitation of gayness

What is highly disturbing is MH’s exploitation of the long-outdated stereotype of gayness as a painful, secretive condition that should be kept hidden from family and friends. Here, MH tripped herself up, because her emails to KL discussing impending marriage plans refer to conventional marriage between MH and KL and thereby prove she was lying when she informed the state trooper (as recorded on tape) that her engagement to KL was for his family’s benefit, because “he likes guys.” Forming an enterprise with KL (in commercial fishing no less) and named as beneficiary of his will and life insurance policy were each predicated and procured on the notion of a conventional marriage. After spending his last $15,000 on MH, MH’s marriage plans to KL are exposed as strictly a setup for the final financial gain MH could obtain from KL. Kent’s father, Ken Leppink, informed me in a phone call (thanking me for suggesting he sue MH in civil court for wrongful death and committing theft by fraud) that MH left KL so destitute, he had to pay KL’s Alaska income taxes.

What is equally disgusting is the hatred and disdain MH developed toward KL behind his back, despite the critical role she played feeding into KL’s obsession and exacerbating his feelings toward her. She despised him because no matter how badly she treated him, he persisted in his delusion to set a marriage date and pursue her. She was, however, acutely aware that she had pressed KL for every last ounce of his vulnerability, creating a serious rage that would have been unleashed, unless JC took care of the grave problem KL had become for her, once MH skipped out of KL’s father’s visit to Anchorage. Her explanation for expressing to her sister her feelings, “KL got what he deserved” and “he should have been tortured before he died” was she had “just found out KL had embezzled money from his family.” What rubbish! This woman who had no scruples over defrauding two men out of all their money became “disenchanted” with KL because he embezzled? What a maroon MH is.

Colin Linehan is clueless and driven by self-interest

Bug-eyed, chinless, with a bit of a gopher face, CL is blind, exhibits stupidity, and has zero credibility. He rails at the media and prosecution for portraying MH as “manipulative!, a spiderwoman!, evil!,” when the very emails in evidence illustrate MH is the epitome of extremely manipulative and deceptive, pathological in lying, cruel and contemptuous toward KL, conspiratorial with JC, who has absolutely no regard for other human beings, and who acted as a scorpion. He seizes on the fact there is no direct evidence that MH conspired with JC to kill KL, while remaining bafflingly oblivious to MH core behaviors that remarkably incriminate her as capable of persuading JC to rid MH (and JC) of KL. More disturbingly, he does not consider the severe damage MH inflicted in the lives of her three male friends/marks/“fiancès.” CL is desperate to have his choice of an innocent-of-any-wrongdoing wife confirmed. He refuses to accept or acknowledge that MH acted far beyond a practicing stripper’s vocation. She conned men and further took exceptional advantage of JC and KL for multiple tens of thousands of dollars in diamonds, other jewelry, clothes, fur coats, house repairs, car payments, cash, etc. Who at the age of 21 concerns herself with obtaining a million dollar life insurance policy on a mark?

Bankruptcy is advantageous

Chapter 13 bankruptcy is not serious as one might think, because it allows the Linehans to be absolved of all attorney fee debt while receiving uninterrupted a physician’s high income. The dermatologic/laser/cosmetic medical business MH and CL were beginning to operate was also taking off, and it promised to be a substantial money-maker.

Circumstantiality of evidence

By far, the majority of cases are decided on circumstantial evidence only, because offenders are careful enough not to leave any direct forensic proof behind. The circumstantial evidence in this case makes for a very compelling argument for guilt. MH implored her sister Melissa to delete the contents of her computer before its seizure in the investigation, but Melissa refused.

Top-rated (AV peer-rated) appellate attorneys Feldman and Orlansky were unwilling to represent MH in second trial, which indicates the case presents serious problems to establishing MH’s innocence.

©2010 Critically Correct Publications

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May 17, 2010

Dear Mr. Gullufsen,

FYI, the following excerpt from The News Tribune, dated 5/13/10, written by Meg Holland of Alaska Daily News, discloses a startlingly false reinvention of the facts by Mechele Linehan. Text in bold is the offensive content. To my knowledge, nowhere did Fitzgerald or Maassen indicate the "agreements" or "arrangements" in the first trial's transcripts with the specificity Ms. Linehan now claims:

"Linehan was 23 when Leppink, a 34-year-old commercial fisherman, died. She says she doesn’t know who killed him. [Oh, brother. Although conviction was overturned owing to untimely death, John Carlin III was established as the shooter.] She and Leppink were staying at Carlin’s South Anchorage house while Linehan’s Wasilla home underwent renovations and Leppink waited for the summer fishing season to start. At one time during those months, Linehan agreed to marry Leppink but it was more of a business deal than for love, she said.

“She says Leppink was gay and that he offered to pay her to be his wife, as a front to fool his Christian family in Michigan. He would live in her house and take care of her animals in the winter while she traveled, and she would live in the house and manage his fishing business in the summer. She backed out of the deal after a week, she said. [EGADS! She did not back out of the life insurance, and what about her "saving money for college" goal she maintained was reason for job as exotic dancer?]

“Prosecutors have painted Linehan as a femme fatale who was engaged to multiple men at once, playing them all for their money. She says that’s not true."

[So which is it on the engagement? Business deal or front to fool his Michigan Christian family to hide fact he was gay, when he was not gay. In recording with state trooper, Mechele Hughes claims in interview that her engagement to KL was because he was gay, and here she trips herself up, because her emails to KL discuss only conventional marriage plans with KL. She is as unintelligent as she is fake. Furthermore, MH sought to separate herself from the ‘ inferior’ inmate population by changing jobs from sewing uniforms during daytime to washing/waxing floors during graveyard shift at night.] 


MH's medical emergency is alleged to have been a leaking breast implant (source: comment ostensibly from Highland Correctional inmate [although they are not supposed to have access to computers] posted after ADN article).


MH was placed into solitary several times for breaking rules (source: The News Tribune, dated 5/13/10).


MH will not testify in her own defense in upcoming trial, currently slated for September 2010, because she will be unable to withstand cross-examination by prosecution concerning, at minimum, contradictions between her oral accounts and email contents.


Cordially,

Dr. and Mrs. [masked] and [masked] [masked]

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