the task, has michael oakes took the stand was not going to be easy. he seemed to know it. he had to admit he did in fact kill dog whisper, mark stover. somehow persuade the jury it was only in self-defense. you ve heard what he told us, his allegations that stover confronted him, threatened his children. he told the jury about what he claims was stover s where determination to get those wedding photos. hoax version of the deadly event. after a series of meeting he demanded folks come to his house and october 28th. and he obeyed. drove in the middle of the night across the state to stovertown s. he admitted buying all the supplies through the walmart. i was very very concerned about possibly needing to make some sort of on foot escape. he bought the anchor lying
really knew where things were headed. even john henry brown, quite deliberately broke one of his own cardinal rules. he decided not to make an opening statement to the jury. i have what it called my ten rules of trial. i think it s real number three is never wave an open statement. that is a rule. morning everybody. but this time the defense would lie in wait where the prosecution made its case that michael oakes was a first degree murder. here s how their story begins. with this video, a security camera, about 5:30 a.m. at walmart there is michael oakes it is morning mark stover disappeared. receipts found in the car showed he purchased ankle lights, and caroline, shin guards, camouflage gloves. also found in his car that bulletproof s. prosecutors argued oaks arrived in stoverstown s a little bit later that morning.
some quite disturbing episodes actually, we ll get to those later. suffice to say, for now, eventually life went on. it was just divorce after all. not death. not yet, anyway. mark found a new property and nearby anacortes washington and if it wasn t picket island it was not bad. he moved into a new house, new candles, new start. he had found the place that was going to be perfect for him and it was going to be all his. i think he was very much looking for he was not looking back. eventually there was also her. her name is teresa. on the third date he let me know that he wanted to marry me. third date? i was pretty shocked. what is it about you that he liked? he liked that i listened.
her garbage. he eventually took what s known as an alfred plea, which means he agreed to plead guilty seeding a judge during would probably convict them, even though he claimed he didn t do it. but here was the deal, this was important, as part of that arrangement mark was ordered to give up his guns. for most but that might be easy, but for mark he had dozens of guns, he loved his guns. it was a passion for him, he loved his guns. no guns, no contact with linda, and mark agrees. this is what theresa said mark told are. this will make it all stop. in other words he was telling you i m gonna let erwin. it was important that she needed to win. was he afraid of her? yes. still, after that things seem to settle down. mark s business thrived in this new location herron anacortes.
compassionate loving guy. but early legal skirmish-ing scent sometimes he had confusion, was in murdering oaks a hired gun? or was it something else altogether? and besides that, how intimate was hooks relationship with mark stover s ex-wife, linda. and who was paying for his famous defense attorney? skeptics are behind this. the optics are behind us and they hired me, i ll tell you behind me i wouldn t be wearing that is ridiculous. john henry brown settled into a local hotel and said to work. the constructing the prevailing public view of defended, michael allen s. here in court rounds south of the attention. naturally flamboyance. how they have a dog in this fight. well the client seemed to disappear behind him. the client who said john henry brown was not at all the