gracie, who remembered jason complaining about the locked pumps. when he came in to pay, he started cussing and raising cain. what time did this happen? that was about 5:00, 5:30 in the morning. the time jason said he was at the hotel. call your next witness. reporter: then prosecutors had new witnesses and new testimony. they wanted jurors 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? day care worker ashley pomentier took the stand. i noticed what she was doing. reporter: she told jurors she watched cassidy playing alone, days after her murder was murdered. she had the chair and the doll in her hand together. and then the mommy doll in the other hand. and she just hit them. reporter: as unsettling as it was, the prosecutors wanted
reporter: was there any other tampering done? the door that was adjacent to where the camera was located, that door also had been propped open that night. how do you know that? the gentleman working as the clerk that night found a rock that had been placed in the door to keep the door from closing. well, then they plugged the camera back in, so it s now working again. and at about 6:35 that morning suddenly that camera is pointing straight at the ceiling. same camera? same camera. and it s tampered with yet again. reporter: 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 7 1/2 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 doms in a tiny place called king, north carolina.
gracie doms in a tiny place called king, north carolina. she took one look at that photograph and recognized him instantly. he was the foul-mouthed customer, she said, who came storming into the store to complain that the pumps were locked. and what time was it? 5:30 a.m., morning of the murder. there was actually an altercation between the two of them. so you have a reason why she would remember him as opposed to any other customer that may have just happened entered the store. if that attendant was right, investigators may have undercut jason s alibi. still, it wasn t enough. so they plodded ahead, painstaking work. took time. and then years after the murder, they finally got a match for that partial footprint. the state bureau of investigation, and the fbi were able to eventually identify that shoe as a hushpuppie shoe. it was a size 12, the same size
that night clerk at the gas station, gracie, who remembered jason complaining about the locked pumps. when he came in to pay, he started cussing and raising cane. and what time did this happen? that was a 5:00, 5:00 30 in morning. the time jason said he was at the hotel. call the next twwitness. then prosecutors had new witnesses and new testimony. they wanted jurors to hear about cassidy whose bloody footprints they contended made her a silence witness to murder. when i got to cassidy, i said, what are you doing? daycare worker, ashley, took the stand. i noticed what she was doing. she told jurors she watched cassidy playing alone. days after her mother was murdered. she had the chair and the doll in her hand together and then the mommy doll in the other hand and she just hit them. as unsettling as it was, the prosecutors wanted jurors to