I saw him becoming more aggressive with people, for example, on the property.'ĭanny Jensen was clamming on Kikit Island when he came face to face with an angry Stover brandishing a gun. 'He was in rages and he had tantrums all the time, everyday and it was very, very difficult to live with. 'I recognized Mark was really somebody different than I had thought he was,' Linda replied. 'You guys had a million dollar business, he's upset that you bought an avocado?' Van Sant remarked.

That was too much money, really upset him.' I would buy maybe a $5 item at the grocery store and he would be in a rage about it. 'The more the business began making money, the more obsessed he became with money. 'The last few years of being in a relationship with him was incredibly difficult,' she explained. Linda says the dark corners of Mark Stover's personality began to emerge more frequently. The high school dropout who came from nothing and the elegant beauty born of privilege fell in love. This one time junior Olympic equestrienne could shoot and fly cast as well he. In Linda Opdycke, Mark Stover had met his match. 'But yet he seemed also to know a fair amount about dogs, so I thought, 'Let's try this out.'' 'I felt he was very arrogant, actually rubbed me the wrong way initially,' she told Van Sant. At first, she says, the feeling was not mutual. Michelle Winery and K2 Ski Corporation - Linda was Mark Stover's type: tall, beautiful and rich. The daughter of multimillionaire Wally Opdycke - once co-owner of Chateau Ste. 'I was looking to do some training with my dog and went through the phone book and found him in the phone book,' she tells '48 Hours' correspondent Peter Van Sant in an exclusive interview. He had found his calling - a calling that eventually led him to the woman of his dreams, Linda Opdycke. Mark trained that puppy to become a search and rescue dog. And then, a German Shepherd named Gunther came into his life.

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