Jennifer Thompson
Appearances
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
The Bundle in the Back
It was unexpected. It was out of the blue. It wasn't pre-coordinated.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
The Bundle in the Back
And he said, hey, I am available this afternoon. I'm in your area. Are you available? I said, actually, yeah, I am. And he said, well, do you want to meet up? I said, sure.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
The Bundle in the Back
I had entered a relationship with someone, and it made me really reflect on my situation with Michael because I can't say I didn't love him anymore. I was healing and moving forward, but it's not just done. And so I emailed him and said, I've met someone. I'm entering this relationship. Are you sure? Are you still sure?
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
The Bundle in the Back
We had a pretty amazing relationship. Yeah, it had a lot of brokenness in it, but I don't know. Are you absolutely 100%? Had he said, yep, I'm sure, I would have said, okay, carry on and move forward. But he didn't say that. And he wrote back, no, I'm not.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
The Bundle in the Back
And actually, he told me that he didn't love her. I can't say what's true and what isn't. I don't know. But what he told me was that it wasn't like us. It was a convenience. They were partners. They each had things that the other needed.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
The Bundle in the Back
And he looked very disheveled and frumpy, like just kind of hair was poofy and clothes untucked, which is different because he's usually very meticulous and neat and tidy, tucked in belt, you know, that kind of thing.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
The Bundle in the Back
I'm going to kind of have some general chit-chat. And then he says, hey. You know there's a beach around here? And I said, well, it's Everett. It's a port. It's not very pretty, though. What are you looking for?
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
The Bundle in the Back
I said, sure, that sounds good. He said, I have some time. He said, but my car is really full. There's no room for you, so I'll just follow you. I said, that's fine.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
The Bundle in the Back
Well, and the way there was very strange because he was driving so carefully, laying low, trying not to draw attention to himself. And this is a man that flips a U-turn when it's convenient for him, even if it's illegal.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
The Bundle in the Back
No. At this time, he seemed very calm, but the tension was so thick. The unspoken was so loud, and I felt, I don't know, it was really, really a strange, because he and I have very easy breezy conversations, so it was very weird. It was very uncomfortable.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
The Bundle in the Back
And so I went in, he went in and I came out and he was still in there. He was in there for a long time. And I sat on a picnic bench and just waited, waited. And he came out and he was just distraught. Something happened while he was in there. He came out and his entire demeanor completely changed.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
The Bundle in the Back
He looks stressed out, like he's freaking out. He's just noticeably agitated and not okay.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
The Bundle in the Back
I said, are you okay? And he said, no, I think I'm in trouble. And I said, real trouble or like perceived trouble? And he said, like 10 to 15 years felony trouble.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
The Bundle in the Back
I also know this man to be very melodramatic, so I'm trying to assess him. I'm reading him and looking at him, and I'm thinking in my head, is this real? Is this not? At that point, he was sitting in my passenger seat, and I was in the driver's seat. And he was very noticeably agitated, rubbing his temples and the fingers of his hair.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
The Bundle in the Back
really vigilant, watching around, a little paranoid, freaking out.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
The Bundle in the Back
Yeah, at one point a patrolman had come by and he really, really went crazy and he said, I feel like they know. And I said, they don't know anything. You're just a guy sitting in a car in a parking lot. He says, you're right. It's just that guilty conscious thing. And
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
The Bundle in the Back
No, I didn't. I probably didn't want to know. Because if it was real, I didn't want to know. And if it was being dramatic, I didn't need to know.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
The Bundle in the Back
He made reference to if he was to be pulled over, he was just trying to get out of this area. And if he had been pulled over and law enforcement had seen what was inside his car, he'd go away for life.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
The Bundle in the Back
I think the part that disturbs me the most, my part of it, is when we parted ways that day, kissed him on the cheek. And that haunts me because he had a body in that car.
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.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Put Up or Shut Up
About May 2008, he told me that there was a potential job coming up that he was interested in taking about a woman and an ex-spouse that was harassing her.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Put Up or Shut Up
They would basically use Linda as sort of bait to lure the ex-spouse toward her.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Put Up or Shut Up
they would take him out.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Put Up or Shut Up
Yeah, we had, you know, mortgage, family, house, kids kind of thing. And I said, this isn't a good thing for you to be doing. And we had a big fight about it, big argument.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Put Up or Shut Up
Eventually, I left the home in July of 2008 for separation.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Put Up or Shut Up
In January of 2009, our divorce became final, and we pretty much stopped contact.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Put Up or Shut Up
We still had this intensity together, and so it was just an email of, are you sure? Are you sure? Her instead of me.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Put Up or Shut Up
They just said he was here on a job, a side job, and I knew what that meant, but I didn't ask for specifics.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Put Up or Shut Up
When he was leaving here, he said he was going on and that there was risk involved, possible injury to himself, that it was fairly dangerous.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Put Up or Shut Up
He texted me and said, job failed, I'm okay, no pay though.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Put Up or Shut Up
He was really concerned about getting pulled over with the things in his vehicle. He wanted to get them home and get them sterilized. And he said, if anyone sees this now, I'm going in right away.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Put Up or Shut Up
The father of the woman was initiating the job.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Put Up or Shut Up
I want the truth from Michael Oakes as to what really occurred on that day, October 28, 2009.
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
Put Up or Shut Up
Mark Stover's body.
What Happened to Holly Bobo?
The Breaking Point
I, in my 28 years of experience as a criminal defense attorney, have never, ever come across anything as odd as what happened in Dylan Adams' federal case.
What Happened to Holly Bobo?
Fourteen Days
And he informs us that Jason has been talking to prosecutors and that he is going to be testifying against Zach at trial.