they were a huge part of starting this whole process. keith morrison: just a few hours after the employees at mark s house watched his car drive away. i pulled forward and there s two vehicles behind the chain. keith morrison: tammy gilden and her mother, sharon larsen, called the sheriff s department to complain that someone was trespassing in the locked parking lot of a grange hall just a half mile from mark s house. in fact, they said, they saw two cars. one, id d by the license number, was mark s white chevy station wagon. parked back to back, said the ladies with a black suzuki suv. and they saw someone moving something between the cars. and he s bent over and he has his arms around a big roll of clear plastic, and my brain goes, there s a body. oh, tammy, no, there s not a body. you ve been reading too many good murder mysteries. keith morrison: the man transferring the plastic and whatever was in it, drove off in his suv, the ladies reported, leaving mark
giving them treats or clicker training or something like that. he spoke to the animals. keith morrison: with talents that amazed his loyal clients, starbucks chairman, howard schultz, pearl jam s eddie vedder, major league outfielder ichiro suzuki, brought him their dogs. you know, one of these phrases was we train everybody in seattle from nordstrom to nirvana, but he was much more than a dog trainer to the stars. are you ready? ok. keith morrison: a longtime employee. come on, samson. he trained everyone, you know. it didn t matter to him who they were. it was about the person and the dog and the relationship between the person and the dog, not who they were. stormy come. keith morrison: this woman liked him so much as a client, she went to work for him. he would connect with you. he d find something that he could talk to you about and then he d help you train your dog. keith morrison: and the setting for mark s dog whispering business, incomparable. oh, it s beautiful, it s a wonder
michiel oakes: i just found the romantic relationship that i had been seeking my whole life, just putting it together. and in the middle of this, i m supposed to say, hey, i d really love to look at your wedding pictures with your ex who s stalking you and driving you crazy. where would you happen to have those? i d really like to look at those. so wait a minute. you didn t tell her that he had confronted you and asked for these wedding pictures? oh no. oh no, no, no. keith morrison: instead, he says, he armed his own daughter, trained her if anyone comes into the house, keep firing until they stop. my very first responsibility, over and above anything or anyone anyone is the safety of my children. keith morrison: and then he claimed he agreed to mark stover s demand to meet, supposedly to talk about wedding pictures, at mark s house, october 28th, went
denied ever being behind the grange. his word against the ladies, the deputy let him go. the deputy just gave him a warning. said don t go back there, go on your way. keith morrison: 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. looked like blood on the back of a car. and when investigators ordered up the casino s surveillance video, they saw this. 6:21 pm, october 28th, perhaps seven hours after the ladies saw the car at the grange. here was someone driving 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 michael
he d be arrested. so then he said he tucked mark s gun into his vest pocket, carried the body out to mark s station wagon, got in the driver s seat, put mark s hat on his head, and went down the driveway. michiel oakes: i drove around for a while and just stopped a couple places and sat there thinking about, how the heck can i get to my kids? keith morrison: he said he thought maybe he d leave mark s car and the body behind that grange hall. but there was that locked chain, so he went and bought the bolt cutter, returned to the grange, and those ladies saw him transferring mark s body to his own car, called the cops. corbin volluz: and when that police officer pulled you over, was mr. stover over in the back of your suzuki? he was. keith morrison: he went to visit ex-wife jennifer, he said, because he wanted to see her two sons, though he never did. nor did he drive to see his own children, who he said were in battle ground, washington, a four-hour drive away. i realized that i couldn