Sergeant Gene Davis

I know Michael and Linda were into guns, and I asked if he was armed, and he said he was, and I removed a 9mm pistol from him. And at that point, we go into more of the questioning. Was Linda armed as well? No, she was not.

Sergeant Davis went after her. She kept on asking me, I don't know what's going on here. What's going on here? You know, she asked, Gene, what's going on? I'm so confused. I don't know what's going on here. Numerous times to me.

They advised that they had a search warrant signed for us to take Oaks' vehicle. When I was outside, something caught my attention by Oaks' vehicle. I see Oaks open the back hatch, reach inside, and take out a plastic bag. It appears to be like a garbage bag.

So I sneaked down to him, I light him up with my flashlight, and right when I hit him with the beam of my light, the plastic bag, he throws it over an embankment, and he starts going into the front of his car. I grab him, ask him what he's doing. You know, he's really agitated and nervous at this point. I'm looking for medicine. And then he goes right into it.

He goes, why are you giving me the third degree? Why are you treating me like a suspect? I said, well, you're acting suspicious. And at that point, I take control of Michael Oakes and escort him back into the house.

Sergeant Davis put on the handcuffs. And at that point, he looked at Linda again and said, it's going to be okay, babe. Linda broke down. She was crying even more now. She was basically hysterical at this point. Sobbing, couldn't even make out the words that she was saying. She was completely emotional wreck at this time.

Once he secured the back of my car, I go and secure the garbage. It basically is a Walmart garbage sack, white garbage sack tied up. How far away from the car was it? It was probably 20 feet down an embankment from the car. And then I secure it and secure it in the floorboard of my front passenger, my vehicle.

And after several minutes in my car, I started up smelling a bleach smell, a strong odor of bleach.

They checked it after the warrant and discovered a firearm and the rags and whatnot that was in the bag. What kind of gun? It was a .22 pistol. .22 caliber? Yes.

I checked into service around 6 o'clock and received a call from Detective Myers with Skagit County Sheriff's Department advising that they're working on a missing person case, Mark Stover.

he also had offered to help train her dog to attack. And I told Detective Myers, yeah, I know Linda, know Linda very well, and I know Oaks very well.

The lead included a familiar name. Somehow Oakes, Michael Oakes, got involved in this. So I initially heard this information and I placed a call to Dave, Chief Rodriguez, to let him know what was going on. He didn't answer.

It was 7 o'clock at night, and it was almost a typical fall, foggy, wintry, not wintry yet, but it was starting to mist, dark night. Both investigators were familiar with Linda's house.

This visit to Linda's would clearly be different. I used my spotlight, my high beams to, you know, if they came out, they'd be blinded.

Lisa, ich fühlte, dass die Bedrohung so stark war, dass wir alle Möglichkeiten hatten, sie zu helfen, indem wir einen Schutzhund getrainiert haben. Das ist ähnlich wie ein Polizist, aber es ist mehr designt, wenn jemand in ihr Haus kam und sie verletzt hat, würde ihr Hund sie schützen. Was für einen Hund hatte sie? Sie hatte einen jungen, weiblichen deutschen Schöpfer.

Und das sind gute Schutzhunde, oder? Sehr gute Hunde.