he did not take it well. keith morrison: what followed, claimed the defense, were many examples of bad behavior, mark following her into a beauty salon. corbin volluz: mark stover walks in unannounced. he gives a card to linda saying he will never let her go. keith morrison: mark showing up at her place uninvited. corbin volluz: he grabs her by her shoulders and says he can t let her go. keith morrison: apparently spying on her when linda slept with mark s ex-best-friend. the next morning, linda gets a phone call from mark stover. and then, to linda s horror, mark stover begins to describe in graphic detail the intimacy that linda had been sharing the night before. keith morrison: and sitting in his car outside her home. she s calling him on the cell phone. he s following her. she s pleading with him to stop it and quit following her. keith morrison: that time, said the defense, linda called the cops.
someone michiel oakes would have feared. and here, the real work of the defense began. they focused to a large degree on stover s behavior with his ex-wife. linda opdycke, said browne, was stalked and harassed for years after leaving stover. it wasn t just the incident in which her ex-husband was caught rummaging through her garbage. he made a habit of showing up at her house uninvited, said browne, exposing himself, appearing in her bathroom as she got out of the shower, pointing a rifle at her through a window, leaving handwritten notes, threatening voicemails. the fact that he goes into linda s house with a .45 and puts it on a pillow and threatens to kill himself or her, the fact that he breaks into her house, the fact that he steals her journal, the fact that he steals her garbage, the fact you know, all those things are facts. keith morrison: and so when it came time for the defense to finally make its case, browne s co-counsel corbin volluz did his best to drive the allegations
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 t drive to battle ground with mr. stover in the back of my rig. keith morrison: so instead, he said, he ditched mark s car at that casino, looked around for a place to dump his
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
to finally make its case, browne s co-counsel corbin volluz did his best to drive the allegations home. when linda said she wanted to be separated from mark in 2005, he did not take it well. keith morrison: what followed, claimed the defense, were many examples of bad behavior, mark following her into a beauty salon. corbin volluz: mark stover walks in unannounced. he gives a card to linda saying he will never let her go. keith morrison: mark showing up at her place uninvited. corbin volluz: he grabs her by her shoulders and says he can t let her go. keith morrison: apparently spying on her when linda slept with mark s ex-best-friend. the next morning, linda gets a phone call from mark stover. and then, to linda s horror, mark stover begins to describe in graphic detail the intimacy that linda had been sharing the night before. keith morrison: and sitting in his car outside her home.