his word against the ladies . the deputy let him go. the deputy just gave him a warning, said, don t go back there, you know, go on your way. it was just a minor trespassing incident, after all. but now, a day later, it didn t seem so minor. time to find both cars. the dog trainer s car was no longer at the grange hall. but an alert detective noticed it here in the parking lot of the northern lights casino, three miles from the place where the ladies had seen it. it looked like blood on the back of the car. and when investigators ordered up the casino s surveillance video, she they saw this. 6:21 p.m. october 28th. perhaps seven hours after the ladies saw the car at the grange. here was someone mark s car onto the casino parking lot. whoever it was abandoned it. and now, dan luvera s investigation was moving very quickly. immediately started trying to find out who this michiel
i know that i will not be standing on the side of my children s graves and people aren t going to be patting me on the back and saying, there s nothing you could have done. i did. keith morrison: oakes claimed mark stover shot first. thus, the claim he now made, it was self-defense, even though no evidence ever surfaced to suggest stover was in possession of any firearm at all or that stover had ever arranged any meeting with oakes. and as for the story that he was a hired gun for the opdyckes, just not true, said michiel oakes. a great many people believe that one or both of the opdyckes are involved. were they involved? not at all. keith morrison: but of course, it was all michiel s story about a crazed dog whisperer, threats to his children, all that fear. i mean, who else says that besides you? and what evidence is there that he ever said such a thing?
deck above the driveway and observed michiel oakes walking outside to the driveway. reporter: oakes, apparently not aware he was being watched, took a white bag out of his car, said the officer and tossed it over a 20-foot embankment outside linda s house. he immediately questioned michiel about what he threw over the embankment. michiel said it was garbage. reporter: garbage? garbage. reporter: but they went to retrieve that bag of garbage. what was actually in it? it was a gun. reporter: inside michiel oakes garbage was a .22 caliber browning pistol. also in the bag, a bloody swatch of carpet and an overwhelming odor of bleach. and then here s what they found inside linda s house. bizarre. oh, there was all sorts of ammunition and guns, firearms on magnets behind tapestries, firearms in drawers. loaded guns all over this house. reporter: including semiautomatic weapons and big-time stuff? yes. big-time stuff, yeah.
find out who this michiel oakes guy was that was seen behind the grange by the two witnesses. reporter: once police had michiel oakes i.d., they discovered he was spending time with linda opdycke, mark s ex-wife. so now two officers from the okanagan county sheriff s department paid a visit at linda s house, here in winthrop, washington. and sure enough, there was michiel oakes suv in her driveway. once in the house, the officers asked to speak to oakes. he agreed. but then he said he needed to find his pills. he became agitated or frustrated. kept on asking for his medication. and the chief, not knowing if michiel was having is some sort of medical issue, allowed him to look around for his medication. reporter: and while supposedly hunting for pills michiel then secretly snuck out to the basement area of the house and went to his vehicle. it just so happened that the sergeant was standing on the
and he said well now, when the [ bleep ] hits the fan in the next 24 to 48 hours, they have my name. there s a 50-50 shot of getting questioned. if he gets questioned he s guaranteed a trial and if he gets a trial there is no one that s gonna stick up for him and he s pretty much going to prison and he said looking at felony 10 to 15 years. reporter: so big trouble, he told jennifer. there was evasive action to take, work to be done. he was really concerned about getting pulled over with the things in his vehicle. um, he wanted to get them home and get them sterilized. and he said if anyone sees this now, i m going in right away. going in, meaning he would be arrested right away he felt? right. reporter: and if all that wasn t incriminating enough, here was the capper. jennifer told police the story of how their marriage fell apart. it happened in spring of 2008, said jennifer. then-husband michiel told her about a phone call from someone