he s following her. she s pleading with him to stop it and quit following her. keith morrison: that time, said the defense, linda called the cops. and he responded, according to her, by sending her a form canceling her health insurance, which was still in his name, controlling, threatening, suggested oakes lawyer. mark stover has scrawled across the front, next time do not call the cops on the guy that controls your health care. keith morrison: and then the defense attorney showed the jury this video from linda s surveillance cameras. in the middle of the night, here s a man the defense claimed is mark stover creeping around linda s house. corbin volluz: what you see is mark stover walking up the driveway and under her house, out of view of the camera. keith morrison: but that wasn t all. there was a series of odd and threatening voicemail messages, said the defense, many with a similar theme. mark seemed strangely obsessed with getting his wedding photos
and she said, i m dealing with a really frightening stalking situation. keith morrison: michiel, remember, was a security expert. he d trained swat teams in close quarters combat. he offered to help. she put in my hands this very thick file, including video recordings, audio recordings, police reports, page after page, threatening voicemails. keith morrison: linda told him she d been stalked for years by her ex-husband. michiel oakes: you get out of the shower and there he is, standing in the bathroom with a gun in his hand. and you thought your house was locked. how many of those occasions does it take before you go, any room i m in, any moment, i have to be ready. and that s the scenario that linda lived in for at least two years. keith morrison: and then, as he worked out a protection plan for linda, he said, something unexpected happened. michiel oakes: we really resonated, really
to finally make its case, browne s co-counsel corbin volluz did his best to drive the allegations home. when linda said she wanted to be separated from mark in 2005, he did not take it well. keith morrison: what followed, claimed the defense, were many examples of bad behavior, mark following her into a beauty salon. corbin volluz: mark stover walks in unannounced. he gives a card to linda saying he will never let her go. keith morrison: mark showing up at her place uninvited. corbin volluz: he grabs her by her shoulders and says he can t let her go. keith morrison: apparently spying on her when linda slept with mark s ex-best-friend. the next morning, linda gets a phone call from mark stover. and then, to linda s horror, mark stover begins to describe in graphic detail the intimacy that linda had been sharing the night before. keith morrison: and sitting in his car outside her home. she s calling him on the cell phone.
his days were numbered. he totally shocked me by saying how every time he leaves his house in the morning, he checks under his car to make sure there s nothing like a bomb. he was a shaken man. keith morrison: and then about a month later, she said, he called her on the phone, frantic. it was just breaking him, just totally breaking him. because he knew that he wasn t going to survive. he knew it. keith morrison: wow. he knew his life was over, he just knew it. and that there was nothing he could do about it. keith morrison: as detective luvera talked to friends and dog-owning clients, he heard all about mark s fears those last few months. he kept on pointing the finger at linda, but again, there was no evidence to prove that or suggest that i guess. but he was, he was concerned. and he had this feeling that something
very articulate, very believable. she was a type of woman that you would want to take home to your mom and dad. she was just very sweet. reporter: of course, for dan luvera and his team of investigators, this was all pure gold. or so you d assume, wouldn t you? but assumptions are not the same thing as evidence and we didn t have any evidence to support that linda or wally were directly involved other than what jennifer thompson had told us. reporter: why not just call them in and ask them? they wouldn t talk to us. we got a letter and a phone call from wally s attorney immediately after michiel oakes arrest, stating that wally opdycke would not talk to us. reporter: well, had you asked him by then? no, we have not even requested to interview wally. strength that lasts you ll ask. what pain? with advil