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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. ....
Worked well together and connected on a very heart and soul level. so it was a romance. yeah. it definitely it definitely became a romance. keith morrison: and so michiel, the diminutive single dad and security expert, and linda, the beautiful, tall, golden-haired daughter of privilege, embarked on a life together, along with his kids. and then one day in late may, 2009, said oakes, he was getting into his car in a costco parking lot in a town called kennewick, washington, when he was confronted by linda s ex, mark stover. michiel oakes: i was approached by mark stover out of the clear blue. i had never met the gentleman prior to that, never spoken to him before. he did not introduce himself. and he take your time. i got up every morning, you know, and took my kids to school. ....
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, he d be arrested. so then he said he tucked mark s gun into his vest pocket, ....
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 methodically. the prosecution appeared to have cornered michiel ....