how is that possible? a young mother found brutally murdered. her little girl left to wonder in her mother s blood. police had a suspect and they say that he had a motive. we had an intimate relationship. ended up having sex. could they prove he was the killer? it was a circumstantial case, except for that witness, the girl who left those footprints. they will never know what cassidy saw and what she did not see. maybe she could not tell detectives who the killer was, but maybe she did not have to. the fact that cassidy was spared, would that mean anything to a jury? person who killed the mother cared about cassidy. hello, and welcome to dateline. michelle young was married to her college sweetheart, four months pregnant with her second child when the unthinkable happened. the young mother was beaten to death in her own bedroom. the investigation would quickly bowl a troubled marriage. but her husband was away on business. and unraveling this complicated c
and at parties, said fiona child s, jason s x rated tricks were famously over the top. i never observed it myself, i would just hear about it and he would expose himself and do what he would thought was 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 and that he had never bought into the marriage and put all of that meant. in october 2006, when michelle was four months pregnant, jason became deeply involved with another woman. and not just any woman. michelle money was one of michelle young s friends from college, one of those charlie s angels. in an early october, days before his third wedding anniversary, jason flew to florida to see michelle money. testifying that they both knew it was wrong.
she told jurors that she had watched cassidy playing alone, days after her mother was murdered. she had the chair and the doll together and the mommy doll in the other hand. and just hit them. as unsettling as it was, the prosecutors wanted jurors to know that the killer had left a silent witness behind. a witness that he would never harm. the fact that cassidy was spared, did that mean anything to you? would that mean anything to a jury? certainly it meant that the person who killed the mother, we felt, cared about cassidy. fiona childs took the stand. prosecutors pressed her about a life insurance policy that jason had arranged. it did raise a red flag. that she brought up specifically her life insurance. she brought it up several times. 1 million dollars was too much