suddenly that camera is pointing straight at the ceiling. same camera? same camera. it s tampered with yet again. if that was jason young s work, is it possible he did make the 340 mile round trip? could he have killed his wife and cleaned up his daughter all in seven and a half hours without ever being seen? to find out investigators played a hunch. they visited every gas station along the route, showed jason s photo, talked to the night clerks, and came across a woman named gracie. in a tiny place called king, north carolina she took one look at that photograph and recognized it instantly. he was the foul mouth customer she said, who came storming into the store to complain that the pumps were locked. what time was it? 5:40 am, murder of the murder. there was an altercation between the two of them. so you d have a reason why she would remember him, opposed to
i was very intoxicated. but i don t feel like that is an excuse for what i did. they questioned him about the most important woman in his life. did you want to stay married to michelle? yes, i did. i wanted to have another baby and i wanted a family to grow. he also explained why he gave up custody of his daughter without a fight. were you able to afford a lawyer for a full blown custody battle? no sir. due to the media and the internet websites, the job i had, i had lost it. the testimony lasted three hours. jason young was a very good witness. he understood what he had to do when he was on the stand. he did not come office contrived or phony? like he had put this together very carefully in order to account for all of the evidence that they had? he had access to police
unfair. what was fundamentally unfair? remember during the trial, the attorney pointed out that 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 michelle fischer 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 that the appeal would be thrown out. the jury came to the right verdict and we are confident it would stay. but she was wrong. a raleigh man is getting a third trial in the death of his pregnant wife. in april 2014, the judges ruled unanimously that testimony about those civil cases prejudiced the jury. and he took particular exception to the fact that the prosecutor was allowed to tell the jury that it was their trial judge who signed the civil judgment against jason. which said that h
just really 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. jennifer powers told investigators about another fight that october. michelle wanted her mother to stay with him for the holidays and jason, who had a tense relationship with his mother-in-law, wanted to limit her stay. said so in an email. along with another nugget. he wrote, our marriage has seen better days and i don t see it trending up. and i remember that really struck a chord with me, because i did not know that their marriage had seen better days. so of course investigators wanted to interview jason young. maybe he could tell him something. but he refused to talk to them. he talked to the lawyer and
the youngest moved into the house on birchleaf in 2005. both of them worked, he is a salesman, she a financial specialist. in the summer of 2006, michellele got pregnant again. they kept the news to themselves, but it was clear that something good was happening. the comment he said to me was that he was excited to have another baby. not implying that she was pregnant, but excited about the prospect of. but just a few months later, michellele was dead. jason was 170 miles away in virginia on a business trip in the night of the murder. he heard the news the next afternoon and returned to raleigh. grossman got word from her mother. my mother called and said michelle is dead? i said michelle who? some celebrity, what are you talking about? what do you mean, how is that possible, what happened? the very question wake county investigators were asking themselves. as the investigation heats up, a security camera provides a critical clue. it s not what it caught, it s what it mi