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Mark would never have done. keith morrison: did you call out to him or wave? i waved and i went i hope that s mark. keith morrison: i hope that s mark? well, of course, it must have been, stephanie thought, rushing a bleeding ding to the vet. about 20 minutes later, stephanie walked up to the house to use the bathroom. this time the door was unlocked. but this was weird. before i even got to the door, there was this immense smell of bleach. keith morrison: bleach? yeah, like, it took my breath away. keith morrison: and inside the house. there was three wet, what looked like blood spots in the hallway, that had obviously been just cleaned and they were still drying. keith morrison: perhaps ding had bled on the carpet and mark had cleaned it up. but why would he take the time? he wouldn t stop and spend half an hour cleaning. his main thing would be getting ding to the vet, then getting to his appointments. ....
And she was obviously hurt. she was growling. and so i started talking to her nicely, thinking oh my god, what is she doing here and what s gone on? and i backed down the driveway. keith morrison: at about the same time, the phone rang in the kennel. it was mark s fiance, teresa. when they told me ding was out, there was blood, ding is never out, ever. she s either in the house or she s with mark. she s not just out barking at people. keith morrison: no mark, injured dog. teresa frantic now, called the skagit county sheriff s department. all of those circumstances were very suspicious. keith morrison: this is detective dan luvera. oh, i immediately thought foul play. this is huge. there s more to the story, and there definitely was. keith morrison: coming up, more to the story? yes, there apparently was, starting with a secret history. ....
It just so happened that the sergeant was standing on the deck above the driveway and observed michael oakes walking outside to the driveway. keith morrison: oakes, apparently not aware he was being watched, took a white bag out of his car, said the officer, and tossed it over a 20-foot embankment outside linda s house. he immediately questions michael about what he threw over the embankment. michael said it was garbage. keith morrison: garbage. garbage. keith morrison: but they went to retrieve that bag of garbage. and what was actually in it? it was a gun. keith morrison: inside, michael oakes garbage was a 22 caliber browning pistol. also in the bag, a bloody swatch of carpet and an overwhelming odor of bleach. and then, here s what they found inside linda s house. bizarre. oh, there was all sorts of ammunition and guns. firearms on magnets behind tapestries. firearms in drawers. loaded guns all over this house. keith morrison: including semiautomatic weapons and ....
Keith morrison: but other than those wet spots, everything else appeared to be the way mark would have left it. i was looking for bloody towels. i was looking for bloody paper towels. the bathroom was immaculate. there was absolutely nothing in the washing machine. there was nothing in the tub. keith morrison: stephanie wasn t sure what was going on, but it all felt kind of creepy. my thoughts were well, that was freaky. and i got out of there and i didn t go back up to the house the rest of the day. keith morrison: you went on with the day? um-hmm. keith morrison: but a strange day it was. and as the hours ticked by, there was no word from mark. no one could reach him by phone. it was very odd that we had not talked to him. it was very strange. keith morrison: the following morning, october 29th, still no sign of mark, no word from him at all. again, stephanie went up toward his house. and looked up and there stood ding by the back door. ....
Michiel oakes: i just found the romantic relationship that i had been seeking my whole life, just putting it together. and in the middle of this, i m supposed to say, hey, i d really love to look at your wedding pictures with your ex who s stalking you and driving you crazy. where would you happen to have those? i d really like to look at those. so wait a minute. you didn t tell her that he had confronted you and asked for these wedding pictures? oh no. oh no, no, no. keith morrison: instead, he says, he armed his own daughter, trained her if anyone comes into the house, keep firing until they stop. my very first responsibility, over and above anything or anyone anyone is the safety of my children. keith morrison: and then he claimed he agreed to mark stover s demand to meet, supposedly to talk about wedding pictures, at mark s house, october 28th, went there armed with deadly force and wearing a bulletproof vest, ....