and so i started talking to her nicely thinking, oh, my god, what is she doing here and what s going on? and i backed down the driveway. reporter: at about the same time the phone rang in the kennel. it was mark s fiancee, teresa. when they told me ding was out, there was blood. ding is never out, ever. she is either in the house or she s with mark. she s not just out barking at people. reporter: no mark. injured dog. teresa, frantic now, called the skagit county sheriff s department. all of those circumstances were very suspicious. reporter: this is detective dan luvera. oh, i immediately thought foul play. this is huge. there s more to the story, and there definitely was. more to the story? yes, there apparently was. starting with a secret history, stories of a marriage s ugly aftermath.
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.
i just happen to be a single dad who s kind of in a very unfortunate limelight right now. keith morrison: well, yes, charged with first-degree murder. so how did he get to this place? the story began, he said, when someone asked him to contact a frightened woman he did not know. that s how he made that first call to linda opdycke. and she said, i m dealing with a really frightening stalking situation. keith morrison: michiel, remember, was a security expert. he d trained swat teams in close quarters combat. he offered to help. she put in my hands this very thick file, including video recordings, audio recordings, police reports, page after page, threatening voicemails. keith morrison: linda told him she d been stalked for years by her ex-husband. michiel oakes: you get out of the shower and there he is, standing in the bathroom with a gun in his hand. and you thought your house was locked. how many of those occasions does it take before you go, any room i m in,
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his client to see us, here on the outskirts of little mount vernon. michiel oakes before even talking to the jury would make his case here. preparation for his own testimony? yes, probably. but also, a wild bombshell of a story, an audacious claim. coming up i went and i got shot. and i won. i know that i will not be standing on the side of my children s graves and people aren t going to patting me on the back and saying, there s nothing you could have done. keith morrison: when dateline continues. lowwe do it right too with who dstylish collectionst. that pull it all together. so you can rethink your bathroom without rethinking your budget.