A former Asheville restaurateur and business owner indicted in the death of her daughter and in a 2007 Henderson County cold case faced allegations of fraud in the decade leading up to the charges, according to a 2016 civil lawsuit filed by former business partners.
Gudrun Casper-Leinenkugel, also known as Linda Jean Casper, was charged Jan. 16 with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder by the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office.
Casper-Leinenkugel was a co-owner of Bean Werks Coffee & Tea on Haywood Road and a variety of other businesses in Buncombe and Henderson counties for more than 20 years. She was sued by her co-partners in the troubled West Asheville restaurant Patton Public House in 2016…