48 HOURS PRESENTS: "Love and Death in Alaska" was Saturday's #1 broadcast program with adults 25-54 (including ties) and viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Dec. 26, 2015.
48 HOURS PRESENTS (R) from 9:00-11:00 PM delivered 4.25 million viewers and a 0.9/03 in adults 25-54 (tied with ABC). Saturday's broadcast featured Susan Spencer and 48 HOURS' two-hour investigation into the 1996 murder of Kent Leppink and the case against former exotic dancer Mechele Linehan. It's a case 48 HOURS has been on since 2008. At the time of his death, Leppink was dating Linehan, then Mechele Hughes, who was also dating two other men - Scott Hilke and John Carlin. Investigators looked at Hughes and the two others as possible suspects. Indeed, in a letter left behind to his parents to be opened at the time of his death, Leppink wrote if something happened to him, Hughes, Hilke and Carlin "probably killed me." There was no physical or DNA evidence tying any of the suspects to the murder and the case went cold. Hughes moved to Washington state, married a doctor and became a mother. A dozen years later, Linehan and Carlin were arrested and convicted of murder. They were sentenced to 99 years in prison.
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