keith morrison: jennifer thompson just told police a story that, if she was telling the truth, police the story. that if she was telling the truth, it would seem to implicate her ex husband and the murder of mark stover. detective dan lovera thought her story sounded believable, but in his line of work that is rarely enough? presumptions are not the same thing as evidence. and we don t have any evidence to support that linda or, wally were directly involved other than what jennifer thompson had told us. why not just column in an ask him? they wouldn t talk to us. we got a letter and a phone call from wally s attorney, immediately after michael oakes s arrest. stated that wally uptight will not talk to us. i do ask them by then? we had requested to do an interview, we had even called him. what did you think? i thought wow, you dread
john henry brown close with a powerful of esteem that mark stover was the bad guy. but even so he said oakes did not want or plan to kill him. you don t premeditate up to the point of shooting somebody, you premeditated the entire scenario. and what happened after this tragic event is absurd. he has absolutely no plan. and there s no plan afterwards i think that this leads to the conclusion that there is no plan beforehand. really? hair was the prosecutions closing. i will say the more charitable view of motive would be that miss opdyke and mr. oakes feared for their safety for some reason. but the evidence does not support it. the less charitable view is that the defendant said that on the path of cold calculated execution because there are
investigation team had been knocked back by the overwhelming odor of bleach. here in the bathroom, off the halls, they found clorox bottles. look at someone tried to wash away evidence, this had to be more than just an injured dog. mark s employees told them about the strange events the previous morning about the barking dogs the odd business of the locked door. the man wearing marks close roaring down the driveway and marks white chevy station wagon. mark never drove that fast. it didn t look good. but the policeman poked around, sniffed, measured but still no mark stover. the evidence even without a body seemed clear. this was homicide. so by now, a couple of days after mark s disappearance. his employees were shifting from puzzled to shocked, to grief stricken. mark took a role in my life. like a surrogate father.
know. it did not matter to him who they were. it was about the person and the dog and the relationship between the person in the dog. not who they were. this woman like him so much is a client she went to work for him. he would connect with you. he would find something that he could talk to you about and then he would help you train your dog. the setting for mark s dog business, incomparable. it was beautiful, it s a wonderful place. pickett island is what it is called. it 84 acre tear drop of enforcement beaches punked a few feet offshore a 90 minute commute north of seattle. the dogs go swimming in the water there. there is plenty of trauma walks and those really really outdoorsy and beautiful. outdoorsy hand beautiful, works with also happen to describe the human love of mark s life. linda opdyke. the willowy blond daughter of
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