reporter michelle meredith has o . >> reporter: the villages.w known for two things, its leisurely living -- >>hat is huge. >> reporter: and larry the alligator. larry lives in a lake by a golf course, and when heets bored, larry h gives hisan neighbors a thrill and makes his gargantuan presence known, which he did this weekend. >> how long do you think he is? >> reporter: mark scherr's t so shs video of larry strutting his stuff across a path.cart needless to say, traffic stopped both ways. >> first scared out of my pants because he was so large. at first didn't believe what i was seeing. it was like looking at a prehistoric monster, and i had one foot on my accelerator on mr golf cn case he made a move. >> reporter: larry is not just toanother florida he's a gator celebrity. people stop and stare at him. he has plaque with his name on it. heck, he even has his own facebook page. >> we come down to see larry the gator, and sometimes he's here. sometimes he's not. >> reporter: we were assigned thisstory,e were told find larry, and we did. we cau

michelle that night. and he was also the reason why she was found. he called meredithhe house. >> reporter: jason young's business trip that night was routine. security tape showed him getting gas, 7:30 p.m. as he left raleigh. two hours later he was seen on tape at a cracker barrel restaurant in greensboro. later he checked into this hampton inn in hillsdale, virginia. this is him front desk. about 11:00 p.m. and him again at midnight. 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 he was 170 miles away. 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 in about 2 1/2 hours. >> reporter: perhaps. but there were curious anomalies at the crime scene. couldn't explain them. a jewelry box was missing two drawers. so was it a bungled burglary? then there were footprints near the body that seemed to eliminate jason. an obvious print on the pill