Michael Oakes
speaker
73 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard May 2025
Michael Oakes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think that probably the nitty gritties on that, I really want to tell you about it. We're going to have to wait to court.
I've always been told I'm a really good listener, right? And I maximized that while I was lying.
I've always been told I'm a really good listener, right? And I maximized that while I was lying.
I've always been told I'm a really good listener, right? And I maximized that while I was lying.
I remember at that time thinking, this can't be real, because no woman alone could go through this amount of harassment.
I said to her, I think we have a connection that could go beyond friendship, and is that something that you're open to? And I think she, as you may know, she's almost six feet tall, and I'm five foot six. She's never had children. I have four children. So it was an unlikely romance. But she said, you know, I have gone through a lot of things in my life, and I'm open to considering that.
I ended up training with a lot of the alphabet soup of government agencies and SWAT teams and so on, and it's what we call force-on-force training. I owned a small company in Seattle here, and I managed to get some training equipment and figure out how to use it.
Yes, I am a gun enthusiast. I've taught all my kids from the earliest age that I felt they were safe, gun safety, and I have shot competitively for some years.
Right. Is that accurate? I don't believe it's accurate. Let's put it that way. She never paid me to be a bodyguard. I did a little bit of research, and I did an analysis of sort of her home security situation and the steps she was taking, looked into the people that she was working with, and made some suggestions on that front.
And that was the extent of what I would consider my professional interaction with her.
You know, she paid me, she wrote me a check, but it was just for my expenses. And it was a minimal amount of money. I don't even remember now what it was, but less than $1,000. So, I mean, it was minimal.
Mark Stover sought me out one day out of the blue and told me that I would do what he wanted. And from that point for almost six months, I lived in constant fear.
Very much so. Threatening? Constantly with me.
I think it was a weekday morning. I had just dropped my kids off at school.
And went to the store. When I came out, he was standing by my car. And because I had done research for Linda Optics some months previously... I'd seen a picture of him. I immediately recognized him.
He's very icy, actually. He said that he had been listening to our calls and he knew all about me. And he knew that I was in a relationship with Linda. He said his wife. He didn't say his ex-wife. He said his wife. And he said that there was something of his that she wouldn't give back and that I was going to get it for him.
He said that Miss Opdyke would not give back their wedding photo albums. And he said I was going to get them back for him. And then he went on to... He went on to describe what my daughters were wearing that morning. What they'd worn to school. And there's no way he could have seen. What did you realize at that moment? He had been following us a whole time.
And he said that he told me the details of what they were wearing, their backpack colors, everything.
I'm not a confrontational person at all. That's not my mode. I felt very much off balance in that meeting. And I think it's one of those things where once I'm driving away thinking I should have said this or I should have done that, there was something about him that was chilling to me. And I felt, I kept trying to talk myself out of it. It can't be real. It can't be real. He has to be fooling.
Well, I'm not a psychologist. I'm not a psychiatrist. It enraged him, I believe, in retrospect, that she chose not to continue the marriage with Mark Stover, to continue to do what he wanted, and yet she retained something that he felt was part of him.
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