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the mountains were absolutely amazing we would fly down the waterline and it was just gorgeous you
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could see glaciers it's great never saw anything like it Alaska is Big it's cold
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it's brutal it's unforgiving it's also the place where bad people come to get away we have a lot of cases up here
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dealing with a lot of wack AOS and uh this is one of them this case is about money it's about
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power it's about greed it's about sex Kent leppink was found lying on his back uh his legs were crossed the victim
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in this case was shot three [Music] times this was a very personal [Music] crime he was fun he was energetic he was
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adventurous he was full of the old G whiz and he said mom I've met the most wonderful girl in the
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world I have fallen in love her name is Michelle Hughes Michelle was a stripper who
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worked at the Alaska bush [Music] company and that's where she basically stocked her
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[Music] prey it was work and that's all it was I thought I could do it and save up enough
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money just for School Kent proposed to Michelle about a month after he met her and she accepted
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10 days after that she got engaged to Scott Hy several months later John Carlin III came along she was engaged to
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him and she just overwhelmed these men they were sucked in Kent leppink um ends up dead as a
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result of his relationship with Michelle Michelle Hughes went on to become Michelle linan Michelle is such a
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Charming woman I introduced her to most all of my friends and all of my friends were so very impressed with her as well
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she became a mom moved to Washington and she became a woman with a master's degree I continued to go to school it's
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very active in my daughter's school and our church married to a doctor with an 8-year-old daughter somebody
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who both gave back to the community and was a volunteer and all sorts of organizations I knew that she had been
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in Alaska I I didn't know there was any trouble in her past there's no doubt in my mind that
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John Carlin III and Michelle acted together to kill Kent leping there's no DNA there's no hard evidence there's
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nothing that irrefutably links Michelle or John to the murder of Kent Leen I did
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not kill Kent lepin I can look at right Mr leping I did not kill your son this is the strangest case I've ever worked
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on I haven't even heard of a case that's weird since we aired this story the whole nature of this case has changed
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and so has the outcome with some stunning new developments but when it All Began
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Michelle Lenahan found herself the focus of a complex murder investigation I just
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feel like there's nothing I can do to make people believe me or make people like me
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it hurts me that it hurts me that the family would think that I did it Michelle is a chameleon she's going to
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portray to other people what she thinks is in her best interest the evidence is going to show that she is a conniving
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witch yeah well a witch I might be but CU I goath clearly I'm not [Music]