Where is mark stovers body

Worried no one would believe his story, Oakes said he tried to get rid of the body. But a woman saw him moving the body behind a nearby grange hall and reported him for trespassing.

Oakes said he later dumped the body in the sea from a dilapidated dock behind a tribal casino. Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission.

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They grew closer and fell in love. It's something that you read about in romance novels or movies Oakes says his first terrifying encounter was in a Costco parking lot - when Mark Stover appeared out of nowhere. As bizarre as it sounds, Oakes says Stover demanded Linda's wedding photos and if he didn't get them, Oakes' children would pay the price. And he said you're going to get this, these wedding pictures back and they would be OK," Oakes said, getting emotional.

He started placing a firearm in my room," Amanda said, "and he told me if I thought I heard an intruder I was to take the handgun and fire at them. Oakes says Stover's obsession with those wedding photos went on and on.

He demanded secret meetings, including two at a church in Anacortes. He was a very disturbed person Then Oakes says Stover demanded that he come to his home in Anacortes. Oakes says he had no choice -- he had to go. On Oct. His destination: Mark Stover's house. Oakes didn't have the photos, but he went anyway -- thinking he could reason with Stover. Just in case, he says he went prepared for the worst. Oakes says he parked down the road and walked to Stover's house.

Once inside, Oakes says Stover left him alone. Moments later, he returned with a gun. Oakes says the next thing he knew, he was outside and staring into the ferocious face of Stover's guard dog, Ding. Having put on Stover's trademark hat and coat, Oakes loads the dead body into the back of Stover's station wagon and tears off. I wanted him to be alive still," Oakes said. I would never harm anybody for any reason except to defend my family, myself.

But lead Detective Dan Luvera isn't buying it. He says he doesn't believe that Mark Stover threatened Michiel Oakes' children. Was it the body? If it was self-defense, asks Luvera, why did Oakes move it? Why didn't he call police? And why did he drive to meet Jennifer Thompson -- his second wife who he divorced in , just hours after the shooting and tell her this disturbing story? I think I'm in trouble,'" Thompson said. Thompson believes that Michiel Oakes had long been a killer in waiting based on his unusual philosophy.

He prided himself on being one of them. A job implies you were hired by someone," Van Sant remarked to Oakes. He got that right. Oakes was arrested and charged with the murder of Mark Stover. But investigators weren't so sure he acted alone. Linda Opdycke briefly spoke to police the night Oakes was arrested. The next day, on her attorney's advice, she refused to answer any more questions.

Michiel Oakes was freed on bail, but the lovers were forbidden by court order to see each other or communicate. For example, how did Michiel Oakes know to put on Mark Stover's trademark hat and coat the morning of the murder?

Police believe a peculiar call from an unidentified man, in August , was the first strike in an organized campaign to destroy Mark Stover:. Stover wasn't arrested, but feeling he had been set up, he asked Hearon, his private investigator, to get to the bottom of it. When Jennifer Thompson heard the tape, she instantly recognized the distinctive voice: it was her ex-husband, Michiel Oakes. I believe that Michiel Oakes planted the drugs with or without the help of other people," said Leigh Hearon.

And while Linda Opdycke has never been implicated, Hearon thinks she's the only possible link between Michiel Oakes and Mark Stover, since Hearon believes the two men never met. That drug call was made at a time when Oakes insisted he was being harassed by Stover.

So who was really stalking who? According to Stover's fiance, Teresa Vaux Michael, "It was after the drug planting that he thought that his life was in danger Stover may have had a reason to be afraid. Authorities believe Oakes traveled to Anacortes just four days before the murder. Home security video taken at Linda Opdycke's home that same day shows Oakes loading up what appears to be two rifle cases.

He says he told Linda he was going on a hunting trip. Stover goes by his middle name, Mark. He has never been heard from again. After his disappearance, his Chevrolet was found parked at the Northern Lights Casino. There were bloody finger smears on the back.

Authorities found blood smears in the downstairs bedroom and hallway of Stover's house, and his bathroom smelled of bleach. His Belgian Malinois dog had been shot in the face; it survived its injuries. Michiel Glen Oakes was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in Stover's case just a few days after Stover was last seen. Oakes is the live-in boyfriend of Linda Opdycke, Stover's ex-wife. Photos of both of them are posted with this case summary. Stover and Opdycke separated in and divorced the following year.

In early , she took out a restraining order against him and had him arrested. She claimed he harassed her, repeatedly came to her home uninvited and sometimes broke in, and went through her garbage. She stated she was "deathly afraid" of him. Stover was later convicted of stalking Opdycke. After April , he never contacted her again.