ken was a man who love a woman just as chris loved bianca and he loved hockey and loved helping kids. he tried to do right with all that money which is mostly around although he's not. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline," i am craig melvin, thank you for watching. i am craig melvin, i am natalie morales, this is "dateline." >> my mother called and said michelle is dead. how is that possible? a young mother found brutally murdered. her little girl left to wander in her mother's blood. police had a suspect and ther say he had a motive. >> could they prove he was the killer?

>> it was a circumstantial case. >> except for that witness, the girl that left her prints. >> maybe she could not tell detectives who the killer was. maybe she did not have to. the fact that cassidy was spared, would that mean anything to the jury? >> the person that killed the mother cared about cassidy. ♪ hello, welcome to "dateline." michelle young was married to her college sweetheart and four months pregnant with their second child when the unthinkable happened. the young mother was beaten to death in her own bedroom. the investigation revealed a troubled marriage. her husband was on business. here is keith morrison with

silent witness. >> i think i paused for a second and had to take a deep breath and just the reality of what's going on sink in. >> those who saw the footprints will not forget them. they were tiny and bloody. >> iny had to get my composure finish searching this house to make sure there is nobody else in the house. >> early afternoon, third of november. scott wood called in north carolina. here because of the 911 call on this place. >> i think my sister is dead. >> tell me what happened, man. >> i have no idea. > >> the caller was mare deaeredi fisher. she discovered the beaten body of her sister, 29-year-old

michelle young. >> listen to me ma'am. i am going to tell you what to do butou you need to calm down. you said there is blood everywhere? >> is she breathing? >> i don't think so. >> have you checked? >> michelle? >> she's cold. >> as she spoke, meredith was cradling her two-year-old niece, cassidy who would crawled out from the bed. cassidy's voice travels into the call. >> has cassidy witness the murder and awaken and alone to find this? >> you picture a small child walking around in this blood and tracking it across the hallway and running into the bathroom. >> wake county investigators were descending on the house and securitying the crime scene. on his way out he saw cassidy

again. she wase still in her pink pajamas and still in meredith's arms. he asked meredith a question. >> i looked over the child, i didn't see anyhi blood and i asd her did you clean the child and her responseth was no. i thought it was kind of odd because i expect her to say yes. >> somebody did. >> yes, somebody did. >> was it the same person that murdered the p girl's mother. all they had were questions. >> this was a brutal, fisviciou beating. there was a lot of time and energy and in assault. >> i there were over 30 blows wh some sort of a blunt object. >> b detectives started investigating the victim and everyone else around her.st michelle young was born and raised on long island, new york.

>> she was smiling all the time. she was the life of the party. >> stacey grossman knew her from childhood >> she likes creating an atmosphere for everyone to have a good time >> she was a cheerleader in high school and a straight a's student. >> she had this book work besides her where she's studios and she's a great person to be around and fun and happy spirit. someone that i want to spend a lot of time with. >> a lot of people did and when she chose a college far from home, north carolina state, she was surrounded by an admiring group of women friends, best friends, buddiebuddies. fiona is her sorority sister. >> there is one picture that we

looked like "charlie angels." >> it was sometimes in 2001 when friends started to hear about the new guy, jason young, how he was a life at tailgate parties. michelle fell hard and fast. >> they seemed like a good couple. he was different from other men he dated inco the past. he was not as serious as a career as she was. he was a little bit less sophisticated witht michelle b she seems to be very happy with him. >> michelle and jason married in october 2003. the day after the wedding, they shared their big secret, michelle was pregnant. her daughter cassidy was born early the next year. >> i love you mommy. >> i love you too, cassidy. >> when she came along, it was love at first sight. >> yeah!

by all accounts, jason was a good dad. >> he was a great play meat. he knew how to sit on the floor and play with his daughter. >> the youngs moved into a big house on birchly in 2005. in the summer of 2006, michelle got pregnant again. they keptpr the news to themsels but it was clear that something good is happening. >> the comment he said to me is that he's excited to have another baby and not implying that she was pregnant but he decided on the prospect of it. >> but a few months later, michelle was s dead. jason was 120 miles away on a business trip. he heard the news the next afternoon and returned to

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she was attacked in her own bedroom and beaten to dead. her body was discovered by her sister, meredithmeredith, alongr two-year-old daughter, cassidy. >> those of us who work in law enforcement, this is our professions but we are also parents and that strikes a different note with you when you see something like that. >> michelle's husband was 170

miles away the night of the murder. even so, investigators had to look at him. >> he was the reason why she was found. he called meredith to go to the house. >> his trip last night was routine. two hours later he was seen on tape at a cracker barrel restaurant in greensboro. he also made a phone call around midnight and that was the last time anybody heard from jason young until he made another call at 7:40 the next morning. a normal person would look at this and say well, he was 170 miles per hour, he's got an alibi. >> that sounds like a great distance, you know? but 170 miles, you can get between the crime scene and the hotel about two and a half hours. >> perhaps. >> there were curious anomaly at

the crime scene. a jewelry box was missing two drawers and there were footprints near the body that seems to eliminate jason and an obvious print on the pillow was a size 10 but jason wore a size 12. this was weird, there was another partial footprint, they began to call in shoe expert. >> now they wonder were there two attackers. michelle and jason's marriage were strange and the last week of michelle's life, things were not good. >> at our friend shelly, w's wedding, he was so drunk and out of it. when we got to the wedding, our friends were letting us know that michelle and jason were fighting and they were referring to it as world war iii.

>> jason who had a tense relationship with his mother-in-law wanted to limit her stay and said so in an e-mail along with another nugget. >> he wrote our marriage has seen better days and i don't see it trending up. i remember that strike a cord with me because i didn't know their marriage had seen better days. >> investigators wanted to interview jason young, maybe he could tell them something? he refused to talk to them. >> he talked to a lawyer and then under advise of counsel, he declined to speak to us. >> he didn't ask about how his wife die? >> no. >> perhaps investigator thought that business trip deserves a second look so they went to the hotel and discovered odd

activities that night in a scare well. >> there was a camera there that was unplugged. >> really? >> it was on the side exit of the hotel, the fire stairs that go down to the first floor. >> was there any other tampering down there? >> well, the door that was adjacent to where the camera was located. that door had been propped open that night >> how do you know that? >> the gentleman working found a rock that keeps the door from closing. they plugged the camera back in so it is working again and about 6:35 that morning, suddenly that camera is pointing straight at the ceiling. >> same camera? >> yes. it was tampering again. >> they're back with jason young. is it possible that he made the 340 miles round trip and did he kill his wife all in 7.5 hours

without being seen. >> to find out, investigators played a hunch and visited every gas station on the route. he came across a woman namedd gracey dawn. he was the foul mouth customer who came storming into the store to complain the pumps were loss. what time was it? 5:30 a.m., the morning of the murder. >> it was actual lyanne altercation between the two of them. you have a reason why she would remember him as oppose to any other customers that just happen to go in the store. >> investigators may have under cut jason's alibi. still, it was not enough. so they plotted ahead and pain staking work took time. then years after the murder, they finally got a match for

that partial footprint. >> the state investigation and the fbi were able to identify that shoe as size 12, which was the same size he wore. >> jason steadfastly maintained his silence. rather facing a legal battle where he's asked tough questions, he gave michelle's family custody of his daughter. >> everyone we spoke with talking about how much he loved cassidy and what a great dad he was. >> investigators had heard enough. they believe they had a case, circumstantial but a case. >> three years after michelle's young body was found on the bedroom floor, jason young was charged with her murder. investigators and prosecutors knew little pointed towards jason young but so far nothing

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his plan was to get away with it. >> with no murder weapon found, the prosecution case was built on the partial shoe print, they knew that he owns a pair of hush puppies. but the trust of their case was missing. jason young was trying in the most violent possible way to get out of a troubled marriage. >> were you aware of tensions in that marriage? >> yes. >> i was well aware. >> michelle's lives their the

couple and for a period was cassidy's nanny. she took on the role as a marriage counselor, too. >> michelle's issues were jason being responsible and understanding her more and his main concerns was their lack of sex life. >> prosecutors call friends to the stand. >> jason made it very well known that he was upset about the lack of sex in the relationship. >> and at parties, jason's x-rated tricks were famously over the top. >> i never observed it myself and i would hear about it and he would expose himself and do what he thought were friendly tricks. i thought it was rather embarrassed for michelle. >> he never settled down as if

he still lived in the single life and never bald into marriage. >> october 2006 when michelle was four months pregnant, jason became involved with another woman and not just any woman. >> it was one of michelle's young friends in college. jason flew to florida to see michelle lonnie. he testified they both knew it was wrong. >> we hung out at the house and we had an intimate relationship for the two days he was there. >> jason was crazy about her. his friend, josh elton, says he thought he was in love with her. >> michelle's mother, linda fisher, testified, she sees the failing marriage that was taking

on her pregnant daughter. >> she had her head on my lap and she was lying out and i was stroking her hair and she was empty. >> what did she tell you? >> things were not working out with jason. >> two days before she was murdered. michelle phoned her sister, meredith, to report another blow up with jason. >> she was just have had it. she said more than one time, i can't do this anymore. >> jason was telling one of his close friends and the same thing. days before michelle was murdered, he got one last hook up with his friend in his own living room.

>> cassidy was put down to bed and we had a couple of drinks and just we were talking an and -- we ended up having sex. >> but divorce was apparently not an option for jason. >> he had made a statement one time that if he ever got a divorce that michelle would take cassidy and move back to new york. >> did he indicate that he would have concerns of ever seeing cassidy again? >> right. >> one big question remains was a good guy like jason young capable of murder? >> he became agitated and he

said something to the effect of of if i am going to make a terrible husband then give me my ring back. >> did you give it to the defendant? >> no. he began trying to pull the ring off and it would not come off. he was throwing me from one bed to another and jumping on me with all of his weight and painting my arms both of them behind me. >> prosecutors hoping to convince if at all that added up for murder. >> how did the defense counter attack? could the witness refute every charge? >> coming up, jason young, breaks his silence as he takes the stand to testify in. >> did you kill your wife, michelle? >> no, sir. >> were you there when it happened? >> no, sir. >> when "dateline" continues. just one pill. aleve back & muscle.

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after five long years, jason you young, was about to break his silence. here is keith morrison of silence witness. >> there is an art to criminal defense. it would take a true artist to repaint the prosecution. what could the defense attorney may point to? he told the jury he agreed with the prosecution. jason young was not a good husband. >> he acted as times like an immature jerk but that did not make a killer. that jewelry box in the bedroom it was dnaed 'ed on it, it did match michelle and jason. the suspicious activities at the hotel, there was a fingerprint on that camera and it was not jason young's. there was not any evidence that tied jason to the crime scene.

there is no blood in his car and not a scratch on him >> ladies and gentlemen, jason lee young, did not murder his wife. he did not murder their unborn son and this case had not been solved. >> who better to make that argument than jason young himself. he had never said a word to anyone about that november 9th and almost five years silent. >> it is always a big decision for defen defense attorney to w or not call their clients. >> this is a case that begs for jason young to testify. >> why after all this time? >> yes, if he's truly innocent, get on the stand and tell his story. >> we call jason young >> with his mother sitting in the front row, jason young prepares to do just that. >> defense attorney hit it hard

at the top. >> did you kill your wife? >> no sir. >> were you there when it happened? >> no, sir. >> what about the hush puppy shoes? >> are those the shoes you had on? >> no, sir. >> he told michelle to give them to goodwill. >> as for the night of the murder, after he checked into the hotel, he left his room twice. the first time to get a power cord for his laptop. i was going over the cell call that i had the next day. the second trip he testified was to smoke a cigar. >> i had to go outside to smoke a cigar and i wanted to look at some sport schedules and some standing and so, i wanted to see if i can pick up the "usa today." that news paper run explains why he was seen at the front desk at midnight. >> between smoking a cigar and

went backup stairs and sleep, did you leave that room? > >> no, sir. >> it shows purses that he was going buy for michelle. >> i wanted to be a surprise. a surprise to michelle means so much more. >> around noon on november 3rd, he called meredith if he'll go to the house to get those ebay paper. he left meredith a voice mail. >> if you can do me a huge favorite if you can find the e-mail on the computer. then he heads to his mother's place near by. it was there that he testified hours later that he learned that michelle had been murdered. >> i just fell.

i am broke on the inside. i didn't believer it. >> family members drove him back to raleigh. during the drive he said his friend called. >> ryan and josh said that the investigators were asking really ugly questions and pointing their fingers at me and doing things like that. they said you don't need to talk to anybody. you need to get a lawyer before you talk to anybody. >> then the explanation for his long silence. >> the lawyer that i got after talking with him advised me to not go talk to the police. >> did you take that advise? >> yes, sir, i did. >> did he tell you not to talk to anybody? >> yes, that is what he said. don't talk to anybody about anything. >> the defense addressed the motive prosecutors laid out that jason wanted to escape a bad marriage and keep custody of cassidy and spent time with his new love.

>> did you have any design in your own mind of leaving michelle young? >> no, sir. >> describe why not? >> i think we knew it was wrong and either one dream that it would ever be found out. >> pushing me around. >> as for the violent episode of his ex-fiance, jason had an explanation for it. >> did you push her around on the bed? >> no, sir, i did pin her down and took the ring. >> what was your level of intoxication at that time? >> i was very intoxicated but i don't feel that's an excuse that i did. >> they question him of the most important woman of his life. >> did you wanted to stay married to michelle? >> i wanted of another baby and i want the family to grow. >> he explained why he gave up custody of his daughter without

a fight. >> were you a i believe afford long custody. >> the job that i had i lost it. >> jason young was a good witness. >> he understood what he had to do. >> he did not come off contrive or phony like he put this together carefully in order to account for all the evidence. >> he had access to police reports and all the discoveries. he knew the state's vulnerabilities so he could arguably ta ilor testimony to ft with an innocent explanation. >> how did jason young do? twelve jurors are about to

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>> then he went and murdered his wife. >> were you working on your marriage when you were having sex with caroline sourghby in your home less than two weeks when your wife was murdered. >> were you working on your marriage when you call someone else? >> we confided in each other and we talked about my issues with my wife and she talked about her husband. >> having the sexual intercourse and the intimacy was detrimental to that. >> the prosecution lasted a full hour. >> soon became clear that jurors were having trouble. >> y'all have not reached a

unanimous decision. >> the jury were slit 6-6. >> hours later, they were back and courtroom 3-c was still -- >> it appears they are still add a deadlock. eight jurors voted for acquittal and four voted guilty. >> the judge declared a mistrial. >> i think there were serious considerations as to is there more we can do. >> the prosecutors decided that they would try again. this time with the one thing they did not have in the first pla place, jason's own story. >> the second trial began in february, 2012. >> power comings led to the prosecution hoping to use jason's own word to convict him. prosecutors called that night

clerk at the gas station, grayson who remembers jason complaint of the pump. >> when he came to pay, he started cussing. >> at what time? >> about 5:30 in the morning. >> the time jason said he was at the hotel >> then prosecutors had new witnesses and new testimonies. they wanted jury to hear about cassidy whose bloody footprints they contended made her a silent witness to murder. >> when i got to cassidy i said what are you doing? daycare worker -- she told jury she watched cassidy playing alone. days after her mother was murdered. she had the chair and the doll in her hand together and the mommy doll in the other hand and she just hitting it. >> as unsettling as it was, the prosecutors wanted jury to know that the killer left a silent

witness behind, a witness he would never harm. >> the fact that cassidy was spared, did that mean anything to you or anything to a jury? >> certainly. it meant that the person that killed the murder we felt cared about cassidy. >> i do. >> thank you. >> the only child took the stand, prosecutors pressed her of a life insurance policy arranged. >> it did raise a red flag to me. michelle had a question. >> she brought up her life insurance several times, that is a million dollars too much and did they really need that? >> the true amount were $4 million. >> i was just like in total shock. that's incredibly excessive. >> prosecutors also told the jury of civil lawsuits against jason brought by michelle's

mother and sister. >> one was a wrongful death case filed in 2008 a year before he was charged with murder. over the defenses objection, lauren freedman testified of that lawsuit. >> there is a paragraph six reading verbatim in the early hours of november 43rd, jason young brutally murdered michelle young at their residence. >> jason never responded to to allegation. >> that judgment says that jason killed his wife. >> it does not mean the facts in the complaints are truth. the judge at the criminal trial told the jury that and his in transducti instructions. when you hear the statement, jason young brutally murdered his wife but that does not mean he's guilty, folks, hello? >> the prosecutors made sure the

jury heard just who signed that ruling. >> i am waiting for this judgment which was signed by judge stevens. >> the jury hearing is something that's going to carry a lot of weight. >> this is the complaint that was filed in december seeking custody of cassidy. >> prosecutors also called the attorney o involinvolved in they case of cassidy, those same allegations were repeated. >> the jury heard several times through this two civil complaints that jason young brutally murdered michelle fisher young. >> the headline came when prosecutors place jason young's entire testimony from the first trial, it began to rip it apart. >> i don't remember. >> prosecutors tried to show jason called meredith to pick up

the ebay print out was for her to find out the body. why would he print the ad and leave it on the printer where he could not bid during the actual end at 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time. >> what day was that? >> that was on november 2nd, 2006. >> hours before the murder. now prosecutors tried to prove jason lied about his reason for -- >> in his original testimony, he told the court he left the first time to get a power cord for his laptop. >> why did you want to look at your laptop? >> i was going over the sales call i had the next next day. >> special agent mike smith took the stand to say young didn't use his laptop for work that night. >> internet site dedicated to sports. >> jason said he went out a second time to smoke a cigar.

but the prosecutors contended, jason was a fierce anti-smoker. the weather that night was freezing. windy. >> can you tell me whether or not there was substantial outerwear that the defendant either had in his luggage or was wearing? >> no. suit jacket, that was the only outerwear that i'm aware of. >> jason chose not to testify this time. but the defense fought back, of course they argued the gas station's attendant couldn't be trusted because of a childhood brain injury. >> i've had memory problems because i've been through a lot with myself and my kids and my ex-husband. >> the defense also argued the case really wasn't solved. that there was no physical evidence to prove jason was the killer. >> there wasn't one scratch on mr. young. >> he would never have had time to make the trip and commit murder. that he didn't have the mind-set

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for more than five years, michelle young's family and friends had been waiting for answers. who killed their pretty pregnant michelle. many thought they knew. >> it was him. i didn't know all the evidence. i didn't know half the things i know now. but i felt that way. >> one jury failed to decide. now attorneys were making their final argument toss a second jury. >> be mad at him. hate him if you want to. but when you look at the physical evidence in this case, it does not match up. it does not match up to jason having killed his wife and unborn son. >> 30 blows? that's not from a stranger. that is a mad, mad domestic abuser. >> soon that jury was behind

closed doors in the wake county superior court. after two days they were back with a verdict. >> we the jury find the defendant jason young to be guilty of first degree murder of michelle -- >> guilty, first degree murder. jason young didn't flinch. >> behind him, his mother was equally stoic. on the other side of the court, michelle young's bereaved mother and sister wept. at home, she got the news from a friend. >> said he's guilty. i was like, what? >> jason young received a life sentence. chose not to address the court. even as the bailiffs led him away, he remained expressionless. the prosecutors were, they told us, relieved. >> very much. have family members there who have been working with for 5 1/2 years.

they finally have justice, you know. >> we've been telling them for years, just trust. just trust that it will be the right result. >> but was this? a year and a half ticked by and then this. >> attorneys for jason young demanding a new trial saying the trial that led to his conviction had significant errors. >> december 2013. jason young's new attorney launched his appeal. >> who is the killer? is jason young the person responsible for miss young's death? and it seems fundamentally unfair. >> what was fundamentally unfair? remember, during the trial the attorney pointed out the prosecution introduced testimony about those civil cases against jason brought by michelle's family. they accused jason of murder. >> jason young brutally murdered michelle young. >> the defendant brutally murdered marie fisher young. >> way out of bounds said the attorney.

the jury should not have been allowed to hear about any of that. outside the court, michelle's sister meredith predicted the appeal would be thrown out. >> the jury came to the right verdict. we've confident it will stay. >> but she was wrong. a raleigh man getting a third trial in the death of his pregnant wife. >> in april 2014, the judges ruled unanimously that testimony about the civil cases prejudiced the jury and they took particular exception to the fact that the prosecutor was allowed to tell the jurors it was their trial judge who signed the civil judgment against jason, which said that he killed his wife. in fact, said the appeals court, introducing evidence about the civil cases was a violation of north carolina law. >> that law says you cannot use a civil complaint, a civil allegation as proof in a criminal case. >> but a year later, the state supreme court reversed the appeals court decision and in 2017 yet another attempt by jason young to get a third

trial. this time on grounds his defense team was ineffective was also denied. >> i love you, mommy. >> children no little of the arcane world of motions and appeals. cassidy has grown. her father, her mother, bits of memory ever farther away. that's all for this edition of "dateline"ment i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. good morning to you. i'm richard liu i in new york. 7:00 in the east, 4:00 in the west. here's what we're watching this morning. new poll numbers showing voters are significantly more energized than nerp four years ago. what's good for the ds, what's good for thers? >> collusion, obstruction of