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Hi Crime Junkies, I'm your host Ashley Flowers and I'm Brett and today I got a doozy for you.

Okay.

When I started looking into this case, I kept reading like the same summation over and over again.

Like it is this love triangle gone wrong and like okay we've seen that before

love triangle all too often end in tragedy but this this case calling it a love triangle would be the understatement of the century, because in all of my years of crime junkying, I have never seen anything like this.

This is the story of the murder of Kent La Pink. I'm going to be. Oh, In early May 1996, Ken and Betsy LePink are in their Michigan home when they get a call all the way from Alaska.

Now, Betsy was probably equal parts hopeful and terrified when she picked up that phone, because just a day or so so before Betsy and her husband had gotten a

disturbing letter in the mail from their adult son who lived out in Alaska.

When they had opened the envelope they they found two things, a short note and another sealed envelope.

Burt will you read some of the excerpts of the note for us?

Sure.

So it says, quote, please put the enclosed envelope in your safe deposit

box. Do not open it. I talked to you about, quote, insurance policies. This is mine mine if I didn't think that things could get a little

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