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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...

It was a huge ruckus next door. >> reporter: occasionally, that sort of thing would happen. >> very seldom. very seldom to that extent. >> reporter: then, 8:00 a.m., amber arrived at the kennels. and still the dogs were upset. >> they would not settle in that morning. >> reporter: odd. then someone told her mark was still around. he mustn't have left yet for seattle. >> and i thought that was strange because he was supposed to be gone over an hour prior. >> reporter: she walked to the house where mark made a habit of leaving the carport door unlocked so the employees could use the bathroom. >>...

The driveway which mark would never have done. >> reporter: did you call out to him or wave? >> i waved and i went, "ugh, i hope that's mark." >> reporter: i hope that's mark? well, of course it must have been, stephanie thought, rushing a bleeding ding to the vet. about 20 minutes later, stephanie walked up to the house to use the bathroom. this time the door was unlocked. about this was weird. >> before i even got to the door, there was this immense smell of bleach. >> reporter: bleach? >> yeah, like it took my breath away. >> reporter: and inside the house? >> there was three wet, what look...

>> reporter: then not long after, stephanie arrived and noticed perhaps a hundred yards from where she stood down in the field mark's station wagon was backed up to the carport area of his house. >> i was kind of surprised that it was parked where it was parked because it was never parked there. it was really hard to get it into that position to begin with. >> reporter: anyway, why hadn't he left for seattle? it was then she noticed, must be mark up at the house. >> someone who had mark's hat on, you know, which i thought was mark, was bringing something big into the back of the car. >> report...