that you would quickly change into as you ran through the woods. no. i would change into quickly and then run through the woods. but this is assuming that mr. stover is taking the time not to chase you. i m very fast. keith morrison: and finally, the prosecutor asked, if he was so afraid of mark stover, why not tell someone? why go over to his house? you never took one step to enlist anyone s aid. that is correct. and you walked into mr. stover s house on october 28th. i did. and he tried to kill you. that is correct. and you did nothing beforehand to try to avoid that. i think i did a lot to try to avoid it. keith morrison: what the jury made of the story, no one knew. but wait. the defense wasn t quite done. there was one more person, very important to all of this,
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
keith morrison: so separation. there was a brief affair. linda with one of mark s best friends. and then divorce, about as ugly as divorce can be. i was shocked, i really was. keith morrison: so was mark, apparently. quite thoroughly devastated by all accounts, because now he had lost not just the love of his life, but he had to leave kiket island too. losing her, losing all this, it was, we hardly need say, a black period just about here. some quite disturbing episodes actually. we get to those later. suffice to say for now that eventually, life went on. it was just divorce, after all, not death. not yet anyway. mark found a new property in nearby anacortes, washington. and if it wasn t kiket island, it was not bad. he moved into a new house, new kennels, new start.
mark seemed strangely obsessed with getting his wedding photos back from linda, just one of many transcripts of these calls the attorney read from. send those dang pictures of the wedding. i know you re into the wedding. you don t give a damn about me. i don t want anything showing that we were married or anything else. keith morrison: the defense told the jury that linda s attorney told mark to stop contacting her directly, only go through his office. but of course, he keeps contacting her and contacting her and contacting her, because mark stover is dogged in the pursuit of his prey. keith morrison: prey? an interesting word, very deliberately picked by the defense, because now they would argue that michiel oakes also became prey for mark stover, would claim that a terrified oakes believed something unspeakable would happen if he didn t try to appease linda s ex. i mean, the fact of the matter is, you talk about domestic violence terrorist,
michiel oakes: i just found the romantic relationship that i had been seeking my whole life, just putting it together. and in the middle of this, i m supposed to say, hey, i d really love to look at your wedding pictures with your ex who s stalking you and driving you crazy. where would you happen to have those? i d really like to look at those. so wait a minute. you didn t tell her that he had confronted you and asked for these wedding pictures? oh no. oh no, no, no. keith morrison: instead, he says, he armed his own daughter, trained her if anyone comes into the house, keep firing until they stop. my very first responsibility, over and above anything or anyone anyone is the safety of my children. keith morrison: and then he claimed he agreed to mark stover s demand to meet, supposedly to talk about wedding pictures, at mark s house, october 28th, went there armed with deadly force and wearing a bulletproof vest,