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DEADLY ANGEL: THE BIZARRE TRUE STORY OF ALASKA'S KILLER STRIPPER
By: Fred Rosen
Harper
July 2009
On Sale: July 1, 2009
240 pages
ISBN: 0061733989
EAN: 9780061733987
Mass Market Paperback
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An astonishing true story of bizarre love and lethal obsession in America's last frontier. Mechele Hughes came to Wasilla, Alaska (pop. 4200), looking for a new life and easy money. As an exotic dancer at the Great Alaskan Bush Company in nearby Anchorage, she was soon earning thousands a nightβand getting expensive gifts from admiring male clients. Three in particular fell under her spell. Each claimed to be engaged to her . . . and they all lived with her together in the same house. But in May 1996, the bullet-ridden body of Kent "T.T." Leppink, a local fisherman and one of her fiancΓ©s, was discovered in a wooded area ninety miles awayβpossibly slain by suitor number two, John Carlin III, at the stripper's urging. Ten years would elapse before the arrests and trials of Mechele Hughes Linehan and John Carlin III. Was the real Mechele a murderess, a ruthless sexual manipulator as the prosecution claimed, killing for insurance moneyβor the loving wife and mother she had since become, dedicated to children, animals, and charitable causes?
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