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Mark Soule's alleged confession to the March 9 double homicide of his live-in girlfriend and her adult daughter were entered into evidence during last week's preliminary examination in 73rd District Court.

Judge James Marcus, after hearing testimony from the only two witnesses called to testify, Detective-Sgt. Jim Johnson and Sgt. Robert Willis of the Sanilac County Sheriff Department, ordered Soule bound over for trial in circuit court. He will be arraigned on murder charges in circuit court on Aug. 4 at 1 p.m. Thursday's exam was held after Soule was ruled mentally competent to aid in his legal defense.

Johnson related to the court the details of his interview with Soule, who allegedly called Central Dispatch on March 10 to report he had murdered two people at his residence at 1330 Charleston Road.

Willis, who responded to the scene with other officers after the call at 7:20 a.m., reported the bodies were found in a loader bucket in the pole barn, with the mother's body on top of the daughter's. He observed wounds to the bodies, and noted that blood also found near a burn barrel outside the barn.

According to Johnson, Soule related the three had spent the day drinking in bars in Bad Axe and in Sanilac County. They ended up in Minden City, at the Gillis Hotel and the Stumble Inn, "where they got into a fight when she (Kredell) was flirting with guys playing pool," Johnson reported.

"Mark said to me he was upset she was whoring herself around," Johnson told the News after the hearing. "She had a boyfriend already and was flirting with other guys. Mark was (also) also upset with his own girlfriend (Janice), because she seemed to be defending her daughter."

They continued to argue while driving to Soule's house. "It sounded like Janice and Stacy wanted to go back to Bad Axe to party some more," said Johnson. Soule got out of the car at some point and started to walk, but the women picked him up.

When they arrived at Soule's mobile home, he went inside and "and locked them out," said Johnson.

Boal reached through a window in the back door, unlocked the door and entered the trailer.

"Stacy tried to come in but he pushed her out the door - told her to get out," Johnson said.

"She came in a second time, and he pushed her out. She fell on the deck."

Kredell's third attempt to enter the house was fatal, according to Soule's statements to Johnson.

"Mark grabbed a knife on kitchen counter and tried to threaten her so she wouldn't come in. She stepped inside and he stabbed her. He wasn't sure home many times. He thought he stabbed and pushed her at the same time on the deck, and she took off (running across the yard).

"Janice was yelling at him. He stabbed her once. She fell. He said she fail to the floor inside the trailer" and was dead, Johnson said.

"He ran to check on Stacy and found her dead by the burn barrel," approximately 175 from the mobile home.

"He was concerned that it was still daylight and someone would see her" so he "dragged her near the pole barn."

Then, Johnson stated, "He went inside the trailer, washed the knife and blood on the floor... At some point he got the tractor with bucket out of pole barn. He loaded up the body of Stacy in the front bucket and then got Janice and carried her and put her in the bucket. He drove the tractor into pole barn and locked it.

"He realized later when one of Stacy's sisters called and wanted to know (where she was) that Stacy's car was still in the driveway." He drove the car into the barn and locked it.

According to Johnson, Soule told him he "cleaned up the trailer, tried to sleep, couldn't sleep, thought about it during the night. Thought Janice needed a proper burial and called the police."