Status: Released In season 7, episode 4 the murder of her fiancé Kent Leppink by Mechele Linehan is shown. This murder occurred in the state of Alaska. Oxygen describes this episode of Snapped as Mechele Linehan's fiancé Kent Leppink is gunned down in the Alaskan wilderness in May 1996, and ten years later she is charged in the murder. Between mid-1994 and mid-1996 Mechele Linehan (whose name was then Mechele Hughes) maintained romantic relationships with several men, three of whom are important to this case: Scott Hilke, John Carlin, and Kent Leppink. Linehan's romantic relationships with these three men were essentially simultaneous, and all three men were aware (to a greater or lesser extent) of the nature of the others' relations with Linehan. Indeed, for several months, Linehan, Carlin, and Leppink all lived in the same house in Anchorage. (Hilke lived in California.) On the morning of May 2, 1996, Leppink was found shot to death outside of the small ...