next to my head and was very disturbed. reporter: and another time, she said, when she looked out her bathroom window. i see mark on a hillside behind my house. he is looking through the scope pointing the rifle at me. reporter: and once, said linda, long after she left him, after mark agreed to plead guilty to the stalking charge, she visited their abandoned paradise kiket island to retrieve some personal things. she found in the cubbyhole in the master bedroom a wedding candle she s thrown away during the divorce. i found the wedding candles in there with a .22 bullet casing and a picture of me along with that in the cubby hole. reporter: was it a message? a threat? in her cross-examination, it was pretty clear that prosecutor rosemar kaholokula was deeply skeptical about the allegations. no proof at all for the claims
no. reporter: the 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 a legal counsel, yes. reporter: 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? you indicated you were 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?
tragic event is absurd. he had absolutely no plan. none. and if there s no plan afterwards, i think it leads you to the conclusion that there was no plan beforehand. reporter: really? here was the prosecutor s closing. i will say this, the more charitable view of motive would be that ms. opdycke and mr. oakes, perhaps they really did fear for their safety for some reason, but the evidence doesn t support it. now, the less charitable view is that the defendant set out on a path of cold, calculated execution. was it because there was some feelings of revenge after this incredibly contentious divorce? was it to prove himself to ms. opdycke for some reason? the fact is we ll never know because the defendant has taken all steps necessary to obscure the truth. and the deceit needs to stop now. thank you. reporter: up to the jury
and linda had not seen or heard a word 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. reporter: but she certainly saw a lot of michiel oakes. you continued to have romantic feelings, intimate feelings towards mr. oakes and vice versa? yes. and in fact, i think 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. reporter: 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?
reporter: so instead he said he ditched mark s car at that casino, looked around for a place to dump his body. there s 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. reporter: 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 insists he did not tell her any of what just happened. didn t tell her what he d done. i just said i had had a really bad day. reporter: when police showed up the next night, he admitted, he did try to throw out some evidence. what was your intent? i needed one more day. i was trying to not get arrested just yet. reporter: but of course he was arrested and charged. and now it was the prosecutor s turn to challenge his story.