Jennifer Thompson
Appearances
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Secret Meetings
Michael looks at a dual personality. He was a family man by day and tried to live up this action hero persona in the background.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Secret Meetings
You know, we eloped. It wasn't a wedding.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Secret Meetings
No, he thinks he is. How do you mean? He wanted to be. He wanted to be. He idealized that. He read about it. He aspired to be that.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Secret Meetings
Michael Oakes was very infatuated with guns, weapons, and I think they made him feel powerful, strong, capable.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Secret Meetings
It's called On Killing, and it's a book about the psychology of killing.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Secret Meetings
Michael Oakes told me that he was in the small percentage of people who could kill without remorse.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Secret Meetings
Michael had a really strong sense of righteousness and love. He believed that bad people should be taken out so that the good people can not be harmed. The problem is he decided who was bad and who wasn't. And he felt that he had the right to just take a bad man out. And we would argue about that. We argued about that for years. Right and wrong. Can you kill? Can you not kill?
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Secret Meetings
And it was a point of contention in our marriage.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Secret Meetings
I remember his hand coming up and slapping me across the face, and I remember it very clearly. And I was expecting, after feeling it, I was expecting the, oh my God, I'm sorry, oh my God. And he didn't. He said, get the f*** out of my house. And he chased me down the stairs. And I could feel his breath on my neck and his body behind me. It was horrible. It was horrible because I trusted him.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Secret Meetings
I trusted him and he had never, he had been angry before. He had shown aggression before, but never at me.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Secret Meetings
And I went to my mom's and I spent two weeks, just took my kids to Disneyland, went to the beach, just got away from it. And then decided that I needed to get an apartment somewhere because I couldn't go back to the house. On August 15th, he said, if you can't give me a date that you're coming back, We're done. And so he told me he wanted a divorce.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Secret Meetings
I think he's a very insecure man. And I think that he musters up confidence really well. He's an excellent salesman. He's an excellent presenter of images.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Secret Meetings
During the course of our marriage, he told me that he was capable of killing without remorse.