tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72562345570842150332011-11-27T16:03:12.125-08:00Donna's Spacenoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256234557084215033.post-40350922492135959692008-03-08T20:58:00.000-08:002008-03-08T21:10:48.447-08:00Linehan's story to be shown on '48 Hours'<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">By Jeremy Pawloski</span><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">The Olympian</span></em><br /><br />Mechele Linehan, who awaits sentencing for a first-degree murder conviction in an Alaska jail cell, will be the focus of a two-hour "48 Hours" episode at 9 p.m. Saturday on CBS.<br />Linehan, who worked as an exotic dancer when she lived in Alaska in the mid-1990s, was convicted in October in connection with the 1996 shooting death of Kent Leppink. Until she was charged in October 2006, Linehan lived in Olympia with her husband, Colin, a former civilian doctor at Madigan Army Medical Center, and their school-age daughter.<br />Linehan and her husband gave "48 Hours" an exclusive interview. Linehan's sentencing is set for March 28, and she faces a potential 99-year prison sentence. A co-defendant, John Carlin, was sentenced in January to 99 years in prison for Leppink's murder.<br />According to Alaska authorities, Linehan and Carlin planned Leppink's murder to collect on Leppink's $1 million life-insurance policy, which they mistakenly thought named Linehan as the beneficiary. Leppink changed his policy a week before his death to make his father the beneficiary instead of Linehan, court documents state.<br />Linehan maintains her innocence, according to excerpts of the interview that were released to The Olympian by CBS.<br />"I just feel like there is nothing I can do to make people believe me or make people like me," Linehan says in the interview, according to the release. "A witch I may be, but a psychopath I am definitely not."<br />Colin Linehan also consented to an interview with "48 Hours."<br />"The whole thing is surreal," he said in the interview, according to the release. "(A) nerve-shattering, anxiety-provoking nightmare... the bottom line is that's not who she is."<br /><br />Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7256234557084215033-4035092249213595969?l=morecrazyhappenings.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Donna's Spacenoreply@blogger.com0