what happened to that marriage? the one on the heavenly island. in fact, there was a record the detective discovered. and it was more hell than heaven. well, mark had issues with linda and linda had issues with mark. keith morrison: to put it mildly. here s the story mark s fiance, teresa, told the detective. the story she said mark told her. that linda seemed to be doing her level best to destroy mark s dog training business. she had been calling key clients and saying really horrible things about him to damaging the business. she called and tried to shut the website down, tried to shut his phones down. keith morrison: which is why, again, this is the story teresa said mark told her, why he snooped in her garbage one march morning in 2008. this was a three-hour drive from his own house. he went there, said teresa, to look for a paper trail to prove linda wanted to destroy his business.
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 there armed with deadly force and wearing a bulletproof vest,
there was a brief affair. linda with one of mark s best friends. and then divorce, about as ugly as divorce can be. i was shocked, i really was. keith morrison: so was mark, apparently. quite thoroughly devastated by all accounts, because now he had lost not just the love of his life, but he had to leave kiket island too. losing her, losing all this, it was, we hardly need say, a black period just about here. some quite disturbing episodes actually. we get to those later. suffice to say for now that eventually, life went on. it was just divorce, after all, not death. not yet anyway. mark found a new property in nearby anacortes, washington. and if it wasn t kiket island, it was not bad. he moved into a new house, new kennels, new start. he had found the place that was
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 stover s station wagon behind.
i waved and i went i hope that s mark. keith morrison: i hope that s mark? well, of course, it must have been, stephanie thought, rushing a bleeding ding to the vet. about 20 minutes later, stephanie walked up to the house to use the bathroom. this time the door was unlocked. but this was weird. before i even got to the door, there was this immense smell of bleach. keith morrison: bleach? yeah, like, it took my breath away. keith morrison: and inside the house. there was three wet, what looked like blood spots in the hallway, that had obviously been just cleaned and they were still drying. keith morrison: perhaps ding had bled on the carpet and mark had cleaned it up. but why would he take the time? he wouldn t stop and spend half an hour cleaning. his main thing would be getting ding to the vet, then getting to his appointments. keith morrison: but other than those wet spots,