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Blood is Thicker: The Hargan Family Killings

CBS News

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.1 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

After police got an anonymous tip that Mark Stover was transporting drugs, he became paranoid that Linda Opdycke was out to get him. In a battle between exes, each side claimed the other was escalating the situation to a deadly point of no return. That’s when Linda’s new boyfriend Michiel Oakes said Mark found a new target. Get early, ad-free access to episodes of Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard by subscribing to 48 Hours Plus on Apple Podcasts. The series is widely available everywhere else you get your podcasts. Subscribe to 48 Hours+: https://apple.co/4aEgENo To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:11.3	Every Monday, listen to a new episode of 48 hours, and then join me, 48-Hours correspondent Anne-Marie Green, every Tuesday for a new episode of Postmortem.
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0:30.1	Trigger warning, the following episode contains references to harassment, stalking, and physical violence. Listen with care.
0:40.3	This much is going to help you?
0:43.3	In August 2009, an anonymous man called the Skagit County Sheriff's Office 911 hotline.
0:52.3	There's a crime that's going to take place in the morning.
0:56.8	It involved a dangerous drug dealer.
1:00.8	There's going to be a van transporting some drugs
1:03.3	from the Indian Courts area to 5 and then to Seattle.
1:09.7	The dispatcher then asked the caller for the person's name.
1:13.8	And do you know the names?
1:16.2	The last name is Stover, F-G-O-B-R.
1:19.8	Stover, as in Mark Stover,
1:22.6	the dog trainer to the Stars,
1:24.6	who had moved to Anna Cordes, Washington.
1:31.3	Okay, and is somebody there with you or why are you whispering? Yeah, it's something that's very delicate.
1:35.3	I have to not be found out about this.
1:37.3	He's very dangerous, perpetually carries a gun.
1:41.3	It's a little tough to hear, but he's warning them that Mark carries a gun.
1:46.6	He said, this is very dangerous.
1:50.0	I wish you guys would do something before he kills somebody.
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