Mark Stover death happened October 2009. Where is Linda Opdycke and boyfriend Michael Oakes today 10 years after Michael Oakes murder trial?
Michiel Oakes admitted to killing celebrity dog trainer T. Mark Stover in October of 2009. According to him, shooting Mark Stover was in self-defense after Stover tried to shoot him first.
Michiel Oakes admits he shot celebrity dog trainer T. Mark Stover, wrapped his body in plastic and dropped him into the Swinomish Channel.
The two men had quarrelled because Oakes was dating Stover’s ex-wife. Oakes claimed Stover had been stalking him and his girlfriend, Linda Opdycke, in an obsessive attempt to regain Stover and Linda wedding photos he believed Opdycke still had.
Stover, 57, a renowned dog trainer whose clients included Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and Mariners outfielder Ichiro, went through a difficult divorce from Opdycke in 2007 after a 16-year relationship.
After the divorce, he began harassing Opdycke, leading to a conviction for stalking in 2008.
Oakes first met Opdycke in 2008 when he acted as an intermediary in her efforts to buy a guard dog. A few months later, the two began dating.
Mark Stover death, obituary: Linda Opdycke, Michael Oakes today
Years after Mark Stover death, Stover’s ex-wife, Linda Opdycke, was never charged with a crime. Opdycke’s boyfriend, Michiel Oakes, was convicted in 2010 of first-degree murder.
Oakes, 42, of Kennewick, was found guilty of first-degree premeditated murder for the death of Mark Stover last October. Michiel Oakes was given a 26.6 years sentence, the maximum sentence allowed.
In 2013, four years after Mark Stover death, a claim by his girlfriend Teresa Vaux-Michel against his estate was rejected by a state appeal court, saying she filed her petition too late.
Teresa Vaux-Michel had sued Stover’s estate for $150,000 after never receiving a check which she says Stover wrote to her and left in his home before he was murdered in 2009.
A civil trial over the check ended in September 2012. According to friends and associates who testified, Stover feared his ex-wife would murder him and left Vaux-Michel a check in case anything happened to him. The check was dated August 2009, about two months before Stover was killed. He left no will.
In her 2011 lawsuit, Vaux-Michel accused Stover’s sister of hiding the check.
Unbelievable story, bro!
very good story told by Keith Morrison on Dateline…. Awesome man!!! Linda will burn….
Just listened to the Dateline story. Oakes ex wife testimony which couldn’t be used, is the most damning. This was not self defense and I believe Linda and her father are/were guilty of a murder for hire and got off scott free. Oakes made a horrible mistake to try to be the knight in shining armor for Linda. Stover sounded obsessed with her and is guilty of doing some awful stalking and harassment, but Linda hadn’t seen him since 2008!!
Nice self defense claim… lol, you get rid of the body, and all the evidence…. no jury was ever gonna believe your story!!!! especially the people down in the pacific nw where I live… Where they always belleve the cops and law enforcement….
Horsehead Opdycke hired, I mean seduced a man to murder her former husband. It backfired and now she’s stuck with the her hit man’s kids. She’s evil and she got away with murder.
Maybe his kids will take after their father and show the Opdyckes what they think of making them grow up without a dad.
How didn’t mark stover ex wife Linda get arrested for the murder too? She clearly had him murdered and she just got away with it. Everyone knows that ugly bitch told Michael to do it.
The easy story to believe is that he was hired to kill Stover . He refuses to give up the x-father-in-law and the girlfriend. Willing to do the time and get paid. Hope he didn’t get out early due to COVID! He’s a selfish, lying, murderer!
Good that the killer got a long prison sentence, but Linda should be brought up on conspiracy to kill charges. She’s a manipulative, snide brat, who probably used Michael Oakes to do her dirty work.