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Here it was, nearly one year after mark stover disappeared, the moment had come, the verdict. the courtroom was packed. on one side mark's supporters, on the other michiel oakes. his children, his grandchild and his love linda opdycke. all waiting to hear oakes' fate. >> we, the jury, find michiel oakes guilty. >> reporter: guilty. not self-defense. murder. the oakes' children, the ones michiel claimed that he had been trying to protect when he killed mark stover cried, screamed, fell apart. as they watched their father taken away in handcuffs. >> all rise, please. >> reporter: and then the ne...

.22 caliber browning and that he'd been interested in it for a very specific reason. >> he told me, well, i have a barrel that i can interchange on that that has a threaded end that i can put a suppressor on. >> reporter: silencer, that is. then an expert matched bullet casings found outside stover's house to michael oakes' gun. >> i was able to identify all three fired cartridges as have been been fired from the browning pistol. >> reporter: proof that michiel oakes' gun was fired at mark stover's house where dna showed more of mark's blood was found. blood but no body. to try to answer the q...

Stood ding by the back door. 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 going on? and i backed down the driveway. >> reporter: at about the same time the phone rang in the kennel. it was mark's fiancee, teresa. >> when they told me ding was out, there was blood. ding is never out, ever. she is either in the house or she's with mark. she's not just out barking at people. >> reporter: no mark. injured dog. teresa, frantic now, called the skagit county sheriff's department. >> all of those circumstan...

But even then, in the fall of 2009, an ill wind was picking up. mark's employees couldn't help but notice it. he was off somehow. >> he was very different, and he told me that he was very paranoid. he'd actually been locking his doors. >> reporter: even though, as everyone knew, mark's highly trained guard dog, ding, would have protected him from anything. >> i asked him why he was locking his doors because he had ding. and he said, i don't know. i'm just a little weirded out about something. >> reporter: he didn't say what? >> no, he didn't say what. and mark, it would take a lot to spook som...

Clothes, roaring down the driveway in mark's white chevy station wagon. mark never drove that fast. it didn't 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 mark's 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 family member. >> reporter: sometimes the clues in a mystery such as this can be very personal, more ...