“Stripper turned soccer mom” gets 99 years
Ex-stripper Mechele Linehan, who was on trial for the murder-for-hire of her fiance in 1996, was found guilty and sentenced to 99 years in prison Wednesday. Since the murder, Linehan married another man and became a mother.
Linehan sat expressionless as Superior Court Judge Philip Volland gave her the maximum sentence allowed.
Judge Volland called her a cold-hearted killer who committed a “heinous crime.”
“In my mind I can find no principled distinction between the puppet who pulls the trigger and the puppeteer who pulls the strings,” Volland said of Linehan’s role in the murder. “And in my judgment, Ms. Linehan was the puppeteer who pulled the strings.”
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