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Oakes guy was that was seen behind the grange by the two witnesses. once police had michiel oakes i.d., they discovered he was spending time with linda opdycke, mark s ex-wife. so now two officers from the okanagan county sheriff s department paid a visit at linda s house, here in winthrop, washington. and sure enough, there was michiel oakes suv in her driveway. once in the house, the officers asked to speak to oakes. he agreed. but then he said he needed to find his pills. he became agitated or frustrated. kept on asking for his medication. and the chief, not knowing if michiel was having is some sort of medical issue, allowed him to look around for his medication. and while supposedly hunting for pills michiel then secretly snuck out to the basement area of the house and went to his vehicle. it just so happened that the sergeant was standing on the deck above the driveway and observed michiel oakes walking outside to the driveway. ....
Make do with just part of jennifer s story. the judge would not allow her face 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 28th of october not long after that trespassing incident when the police officer pulled him over. jennifer said he looked a little frumpy, and what was that on his jeans? there was 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. but most startling in jennifer s testimony, all those things she claims 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. something that was not planned. and he said, if there is a trial, it s not going to be good. all v ....
And i had to get them to him or else. what did 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. but michiel oakes, the security, weapons, and hand-to-hand combat expert, the trainer of police s.w.a.t. teams did feel something, he said. for six months of 2009 i lived in a perpetual state of fear. 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. and so, according to michiel, he tried to appease mark stover and looked for the wedding photos. i just found the romantic ....
Jennifer told the police that after michiel left on the 24th he told her in an e-mail he d be back in the area later that week. and sure enough, on oct. 28th, not long after that deputy pulled him over to investigate the trespassing incident, oakes called again, said jennifer. came to meet her. he asked her to drive to a spot near the water, she said, where they could talk. yeah, because he was just sitting there in a frenzy just stressed out. he just seemed very agitated. and he mentioned that he may be in trouble. and then another reference to a job, a job gone bad. he said, well, i made an error doing the job. i made an error. and when i realized the error, i tried to get out of there. but when i was getting out of there, two old biddies saw me. i said why is this a problem? and he said well now, when the [bleep] hits the fan in the next 24 to 48 hours, they have ....
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. and linda hadn t seen or heard a word from stover in the year and a half before he was killed. ....