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And show the jury what he claimed happened next, courtroom show and tell. he s mr. stover. we holding the gun up. he s fired at you. what do you do? that was amazingly fast, mr. oakes. is that the way you did that? that s how i was trained. corbin volluz: mr. stover was shot with his own gun. yes, he was. keith morrison: 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 of times until it stopped coming at me. keith morrison: why didn t he call the police? he had said he owned the cops and it seemed like there was some evidence that that might be true. i just didn t think they would believe me at all. keith morrison: then, michiel said, he wanted to see his kids before, as he said he assumed, ....
Keith morrison: and in case we didn t get it michiel oakes: the lens i look at the world through is really that of a single dad. i am a nurturer. i m a father. i m a very peaceable person. i just happen to be a single dad who s kind of in a very unfortunate limelight right now. keith morrison: well, yes, charged with first-degree murder. so how did he get to this place? the story began, he said, when someone asked him to contact a frightened woman he did not know. that s how he made that first call to linda opdycke. and she said, i m dealing with a really frightening stalking situation. keith morrison: michiel, remember, was a security expert. he d trained swat teams in close quarters combat. he offered to help. she put in my hands this very thick file, including video recordings, audio recordings, police reports, page after page, threatening voicemails. keith morrison: linda told him she d been stalked for years by her ex-husband. michiel oakes: you get out of the shower ....
Wedding albums, photos. and i had to get them to him or else. what d you say? you know, i was my head was spinning. i was so much in shock i didn t say much. i listened to him. i think i nodded several times. i don t remember saying anything. keith morrison: but michiel oakes, the security, weapons, and hand-to-hand combat expert, the trainer of police swat teams, did feel something, he said. michiel oakes: for six months of 2009, i lived in a perpetual state of fear. keith morrison: too afraid, even, to call the police. i didn t have video proof. i didn t have audio proof. i didn t even have a witness. keith morrison: and so, according to michiel, he tried to appease mark stover and looked for the wedding photos. ....
And was very disturbed. keith morrison: and another time, she said, when she looked out her bathroom window i see mark on a hillside behind my house. he s looking through the scope, pointing the rifle at me. keith morrison: and once, said linda, long after she left him, after mark agreed to plead guilty to the stalking charge, she visited their abandoned paradise, kiket island, to retrieve some personal things. and she said she found in a cubbyhole in the master bedroom a wedding candle that she d thrown away during the divorce. i found the wedding candle in there with a .22 bullet casing and a picture of me along with that in the cubbyhole. keith morrison: was it a message, a threat? in her cross-examination, it was pretty clear that prosecutor rosemary kaholokula was deeply skeptical about linda s fears and allegations. no proof at all from michiel s claims. ....
To be filmed in court as she told the jury about her visit from michiel just days before mark stover disappeared, when he talked about a job he was supposed to do. and then there was her meeting with him on the 20th of october, not long after that trespassing incident when a police officer pulled him over. jennifer said he looked a little frumpy. and what was that on his jeans? jennifer thompson: there is a a rusty, reddish stain on his right knee. to me it looked like blood. i just said, it looks like you have a dirty knee there. and he took his finger and he touched it. and he said, yeah. keith morrison: but most startling in jennifer s testimony, all those things she claimed he said, that he was doing a job and something went wrong, that he wanted to sterilize his car, and his fears about what would happen if the cops questioned him. jennifer thompson: something that was not planned happened. he said, and if there s a trial, it s not going to be good. keith morrison: all very metho ....