Kent John Leppink, 36, was found dead May 2, 1996, near a remote stretch outside Hope, about 90 miles south of Anchorage, shot three times with a .44-caliber handgun; shell casings were at the scene but no weapon was recovered. He had recently changed the beneficiary on a $1 million life-insurance policy, and shortly before his death he wrote his parents a letter warning that if he were found under suspicious circumstances, Mechele Linehan, John Carlin III, or another acquaintance might be responsible.

Linehan and Carlin were arrested in October 2006 and later convicted by separate Anchorage juries of first-degree murder in 2007; prosecutors portrayed motive as tied to money and romantic entanglement. Carlin was found bludgeoned to death in his prison cell while appealing. Appeals overturned Linehan’s conviction in February 2010 because certain evidence should not have been admitted; the indictment against her was dismissed in December 2011 and prosecutors later declined to retry. Carlin’s conviction was also reversed posthumously.

No murder weapon has been recovered and the case remains officially unresolved. Does anyone have reliable information about Leppink’s last days on the Hope Highway or the people he named in his letter?