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Remember, mark's friends and clients had nothing but good things to say about him, but now it was clear oakes' attorneys would use whatever evidence they could to paint the dog trainer as a threatening, gun-loving predator, someone michiel oakes would have feared. and here, the real work of the defense began. they focused to a large degree on stover's behavior with his ex-wife. linda opdycke, said browne, was stalked and harassed for years after leaving stover. it wasn't just the incident in which her ex-husband was caught rummaging through her garbage. he made a habit of showing up at her hou...

Recognized expert in close quarters combat, knows firearms so well he's written numerous articles for gun magazines, has even trained police s.w.a.t. teams. but has no criminal record and, insisted browne, he isn't a murderer. still, he must have done something to mark stover. didn't he? well, here's where it all began to get tricky. if stover was really dead, said john henry browne, and if the prosecution could prove oakes killed him, then, and only then oakes might provide an explanation. through the legal fog a little hint came popping out. the prosecution had already indicated it would int...

About, for example, that morning at mark stover's house. >> did you hear the gun go off? >> i don't recall anything really. >> who pulled the trigger? >> i believe i did. >> was his fingers still on the trigger? >> you know, i do not know. >> where were you when you pulled the trigger? >> i don't know. >> where was the bullet hole? >> i don't know. >> you weren't curious enough to look? >> i was very disturbed. >> reporter: and despite all of those people who testified they were knocked back by the overwhelming smell of bleach -- >> i don't recall smelling any bleach. >> did you use any bleach...

>> yes. big-time stuff, yeah. >> reporter: why? was an explanation provided for this? >> no. >> reporter: before police left linda opdycke's 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-wife who volunteered a remarkable story about disturbing visits and puzzli...

Had his client put on the bulletproof vest and show the jury what he claimed happened next. courtroom show and tell. >> mr. stover pulled the gun out. he fired at you. >> mm-hmm. >> what do you do? that was amazingly fast. is that the way you did that? >> that's how i was trained. >> mr. stover was shot with his own gun? >> yes, he was. >> reporter: so now mark stover was dead in the hallway of his home. and soon after, said oakes, he went outside and was confronted by mark's dog ding. >> i shot a couple times until it stopped coming at me. >> reporter: so why didn't he call the police? >> he ...