about possibly needing to make some sort of on-foot escape in the woods from him and his dogs. reporter: he bought the anchor line and weights, he claimed to help him scale up a nearby water tower. and those shin guards, they weren t armor to depend off a watchdog but just a gift for jennifer s young son. at 7:00 a.m., michiel testified that he knocked on mark stover s door. mark ordered him stand in his hallway bathroom and oakes simply obeyed. and then when he told mark he couldn t find any wedding pictures he got more and more animated and got very close to me and was very angry and very loud. reporter: and then he came around the corner with a gun in his hand. we tangled, and i got shot. reporter: john henry browne
had his client put on the bulletproof vest and show the jury what he claimed happened next. courtroom show and tell. mr. stover pulled the gun out. he fired at you. mm-hmm. what do you do? that was amazingly fast. is that the way you did that? that s how i was trained. mr. stover was shot with his own gun? yes, he was. reporter: so now mark stover was dead in the hallway of his home. and soon after, said oakes, he went outside and was confronted by mark s dog ding. i shot a couple times until it stopped coming at me. reporter: so why didn t he call the police? he had said he owned the cops and seemed like there was some evidence that that might be true. i just didn t think they would believe me at all. reporter: then michiel said he wanted to see his kids before, as he said he assumed,
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?