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He continued to services clients in seattle and of course, by then he had found teresa but then, in the summer of 2009, to strange 9-1-1 calls came into the county sheriffs office. an anonymous male caller claimed mark stone or was transporting drugs in his car. >> it is a crime thats going to take place in the morning. >> please pull mark over, not a small amount of marijuana can underneath the car. but he was not arrested. mark told police he believed he was being set up. those were not his dr...

Something between the cars. >> hes bent over and he has his arms around a big role of clear plastic and my brain goes, theres a body. >> oh tammy, no, theres not a body youve been reading too many murder mysteries. >> he was transferred to plastic and whatever was in it. then he drove off in his suv, the ladies reported. leaving mark stover station wagon behind. the sheriffs dispatcher sent a deputy to have a look. sure enough, the deputy found marks car, inside the apparently locked parking lot...

Or too good to last anyway. after all, he seemed something of a self-made mutt and she the purebred heiress type, the golden-haired daughter of a wealthy alpha male. whatever. by the time they promised their eternal love, the clock to its end was ticking. inaudible to them, of course. like a whistle only a dog can hear. which, come to think of it, begs the question -- how did he, of all people, miss it? his name was mark stover. and he discovered quite early that he had some special, eerily myst...

Visitation rights. meanwhile, stevens parents have spoken to sydney about what happened to her dad. he might have given his life for her. >> thats all for this edition of dateline, im craig melvin. thank you for watching. thank you for watching he was born with a gift. he spoke to the animals. he spoke to the animals. >> a dog trainer to the stars with a beautiful wife. >> he was totally crazy about her. >> but an ill wind would blow through paradise. >> the kennel dogs were very, very upset. th...

Dog. >> and the setting for marks dog whispering business? incomparable. >> oh, its beautiful. its a wonderful place. >> kiket island is what its called. an 84-acre teardrop of primeval forest and meadows and beaches plunked a few feet offshore, a 90-minute commute north of seattle. >> the dogs could go swimming in the water there. theres plenty of trail walks. and it was just really, really outdoorsy and beautiful. >> outdoorsy and beautiful are words which also happen to describe the human lov...

Clearly tell. >> he just thought she was beautiful, wonderful, smart. never, never, ever said anything bad about her. never. >> seemed to be in love? >> he was. he was totally -- totally crazy about her. >> it was lindas father, wally opdycke, who owned kiket island. mark and linda lived there on wallys island and grew their very successful business together. and then in 2002, they made their union permanent. an intimate wedding ceremony in the presidential suite of the las vegas four seasons. h...

Clothes, roaring down the driveway in marks white chevy station wagon. mark never drove that fast. it didnt look good. the policemen poked around, sniffed, measured. and still no mark stover. the evidence, even without a body, seemed clear. this was homicide. so by now, a couple of days after marks disappearance, his employees were shifting from puzzled to shocked to grief-stricken. >> mark took a role in my life like a surrogate father. and i truly loved mark as a parent and a friend and a fami...

>> so separation. there was a brief affair. linda with one of marks best friends, and then divorce. about as ugly as divorce can be. >> i was shocked. i really was. >> so was mark, apparently. quite thoroughly devastated, by all accounts. because now he had lost not just the love of his life, but he had to leave kiket island, too. losing her, losing all this. it was, we hardly need say, a black period for just about here. some quite disturbing episodes, actually. well get to those later. suffice...

These former lovers were afraid of each other. what happened to that marriage, the one on the heavenly island? in fact, there was a record, the detective discovered. and it was more hell than heaven. >> well, mark had issues with linda, and linda had issues with mark. >> to put it mildly. heres the story marks fiancee teresa told the detective. the story, she said, mark told her that linda seemed to be doing her level best to destroy marks dog training business. >> she had been calling key clien...

Big-time stuff, yeah. >> why? was an explanation provided for this? >> no. >> before police left linda opdyckes house here in winthrop, he arrested michiel oakes on suspicion of murder. and back in western washington, a local buzz began to grow. if michiel oakes did kill mark stover, was someone else involved somehow? buzz is discouraged, however, in police work in favor of actual evidence, which in this case arrived in a phone call to police from her. michiel oakes, it turned out, had an ex-wif...