. >> the caller was meredith fisher. she had just discovered on the floor of the master bedroom the savagely beaten body of her elder sister, 29-year-old michelle young, a woman who in death was about to be famous. >> listen to me, ma'am. i'll tell you what you have to do. you need to calm down so we can help you. you said there's blood everywhere? listen to me. is she breathing? >> i don't think so. she's cold. >> reporter: as she spoke, meredith was cradling her 2 1/2-year-old niece, cassidy, who crawled out from under the bed clothes on her parents' bed, feet from where her mother lay. cassidy's voice chattering to her aunt. had cassidy witnessed the murder, awakened alone to find this? >> you just picture a small child walking around in this blood and tracking it across the hallway over into the bathroom. >> reporter: by now, wake county investigators were descending on the house. having secured the crime scene, earp's job was done. but on his way out he saw cassidy again. she was still in her pink pajamas, still in

i was well aware. >> reporter: meredith fisher, michelle's sister, lived near the couple. and for a period was cassidy's nanny. as the young's fights intensified, she took on the role of marriage counselor too. >> what would you say were the main issues? >> michelle's main issues were, jason being more responsible, understanding her more, and his main concern was their lack of sex life. >> prosecutors called friends to the stand to paint a picture of a marriage that was unraveling out loud and in public. >> jason made it very well known that, you know, he was upset about the lack of sex in the relationship. >> reporter: and at parties, said fiona childs, jason's x rated tricks were famously over the top. >> i never observed it myself. i would just hear about it. and you know, he would expose himself and do what he thought was these funny tricks. and i was always just rather embarrassed for michelle. >> he never settled down. it was as if he was still living the single life, that he never bought into the marriage. what that -- what all that meant. >> reporter: in october 20

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 meredithd 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