According to the Anchorage Daily News, Mechele Linehan, the former Anchorage stripper once convicted of murdering her fiancee in 1996 has returned to her home in Washington state.

Superior Court Judge Larry Card on Tuesday dismissed the bail and court-ordered conditions that had been keeping her from leaving Alaska.

Linehan's previous conviction and indictment had both been thrown out on appeal, and prosecutors had been given until Tuesday to re-indict her.

The prosecutor assigned to the case, Assistant Attorney General Paul Miovas, said that he doesn't believe the matter is over, but said that the Department of Law has "a few legal issues to work through" before deciding whether or not it could present new charges to another grand jury.

With a second indictment not forthcoming, the judge's dismissal of restrictions on Linehan's travel was essentially a formality.

Linehan's lawyer said that within hours of being allowed to leave, she and her husband were on a flight back home.

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