haven t we, you don t negotiate with terrorists. michiel didn t know that. or michiel felt he could negotiate with terrorists. linda felt she could negotiate with terrorists. the reality is you can t negotiate with a terrorist. and mark stover was a domestic violence terrorist. keith morrison: mark s friends and clients had by now gathered around the courthouse here in mount vernon determined to tell the world, anybody who would listen, that those claims were both unfair and untrue. most of all these reports that we hear are filed by her alone and by her eyewitness alone and absolutely no one else s. so you ve got to weigh that in at some point too, that it doesn t have that much meat to it. woman: i just knew that wasn t true about him. there was there was nothing in him that was malicious or vindictive. keith morrison: and perhaps to answer them? a surprising and extremely unusual strategy. in mid-trial john henry browne brought
him? it was a wild story jennifer told and, of course, horrifying, given what seemed to have happened. jennifer said she told michiel back then, don t do it. walk away. but he wouldn t listen. and that s when things started going bad. well, jennifer and michiel s marriage started to unravel because michiel had considered taking this job. and jennifer knew that this was a kill for hire, and she didn t want to have any part of it. reporter: and thus didn t want to be married to a guy who was going to do such a thing? exactly, yeah. reporter: but, remember, awful though it sounded, this was an ex-wife s story. and all due respect to jennish maybe she just had a vendetta against him because, after all, he was the ex. didn t she want him back desperately? he wouldn t come back? yeah, she still had feelings for him. reporter: so maybe she would just want to get him? no. jennifer was very well spoken,
and i got my car as close to that as possible and muscled him out and dropped him in the water. keith morrison: an area investigators had searched but never found anything. then, he said, he drove across the state not to his kids, but to linda s house, though he insisted he did not tell her any of what just happened, didn t tell her what he d done. i just said i had a really bad day. and when the police showed up the next night, he admitted, he did try to throw out some evidence. what was your intent? i needed i needed one more day. i didn t i was trying not to get arrested just yet. keith morrison: but of course, he was arrested and charged. and now, it was prosecutor rich weyrich s turn to challenge his story about, for example, that morning at mark stover s house. did you hear the gun go off? you know, i don t recall anything really. who pulled the trigger? i believe i did. rich weyrich: ok.
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the person who s dead here is mark stover. yeah. he s the one against whom the violence was committed. here s something that we ve learned in this country, haven t we, you don t negotiate with terrorists. michiel didn t know that. or michiel felt he could negotiate with terrorists. linda felt she could negotiate with terrorists. the reality is you can t negotiate with a terrorist. and mark stover was a domestic violence terrorist. keith morrison: mark s friends and clients had by now gathered around the courthouse here in mount vernon determined to tell the world, anybody who would listen, that those claims were both unfair and untrue. most of all these reports that we hear are filed by her alone and by her eyewitness alone and absolutely no one else s. so you ve got to weigh that in at some point too, that it doesn t have that much meat to it. woman: i just knew that wasn t true about him. there was there was nothing in him that was malicious or vindictive.