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. was his finger still on the trigger? you know, i do not know. where were you when you pulled the trigger? i don t know. where was the bullet hole? i don t know. you weren t curious enough to look? i was very disturbed. keith morrison: and despite all those people who testified they were knocked back by the overwhelming smell of bleach i don t recall smelling any bleach. did you use any bleach? i did not. did you attempt to clean up anything? no. keith morrison: didn t try to erase evidence, he claimed. and as for those odd supplies he bought at the wal-mart so why did you need camouflage? if i was going to make my escape through the woods to to the water tower, camouflage is quite useful for that. rich weyrich: you would have the camouflage in your backpack that you would quickly change into as you
from stover in the year and a half before he was killed. so what was she and oakes so frightened about? the last time that you ever saw mr. stover or heard from mr. stover was at the protection order hearing in april of 08, correct? that is correct. keith morrison: but she certainly saw a lot of michiel oakes. you continued to have romantic feelings, intimate feelings toward mr. oakes and vice versa. yes. and in fact, i think that you said that in our interview last week, is that you loved him, correct? i don t recall if i said that or not, but i do. yes. keith morrison: and hadn t her new lover done her a favor, asked the prosecutor, by getting rid of the ex-husband she accused of causing her so much trouble? the fact is that in this case, you don t have to worry about mr. stover, now do you? it appears to be that case. and in that sense, the defendant helped you out, correct? no.
intimate feelings toward mr. oakes and vice versa. yes. and in fact, i think that you said that in our interview last week, is that you loved him, correct? i don t recall if i said that or not, but i do. yes. keith morrison: and hadn t her new lover done her a favor, asked the prosecutor, by getting rid of the ex-husband she accused of causing her so much trouble? the fact is that in this case, you don t have to worry about mr. stover, now do you? it appears to be that case. and in that sense, the defendant helped you out, correct? no. prosecutor kaholokula also asked opdycke about her refusal to answer certain questions in the case. now, it s correct, isn t it, that throughout the investigation of this case, you ve been concerned about your own potential legal liability in this case. yes. and you refused to speak with my office, correct? under legal counsel, yes.
looked around for a place to dump his body. michiel oakes: there s kind of a dilapidated-looking dock thing. 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.
keith morrison: and this testimony now in court, suggested the prosecutor, sounded like a woman with an obvious and selfish motive to support michiel oakes claim of self-defense. isn t it true that if this is a case of self-defense, it gets you off the hook too? what do you mean by that? rosemary kaholokula: you indicated you are concerned about your own potential liability in this case. if a jury were to find that this was self-defense, you wouldn t have any more liability either, would you? i have no liability in this case. nothing further. keith morrison: and the witness left the stand. dateline wanted to talk to linda opdycke. but she did not respond to our interview request. and as for her father, wally opdycke, his lawyer e-mailed this statement. wallace opdycke had absolutely no involvement or prior knowledge of michiel oakes murder of mark stover. rumors and innuendo to the contrary