before your wife was murdered? no, ma am, that was not the way to work on a marriage. that was detrimental. were you working on your marriage when you called michelle miney? michelle and i confided a lot in each other. we talked about my issues with my wife. she talked about her issues with her husband. so is the answer yes when you had an affair with michelle miney that you were working on your marriage? no, ma am. having sexual intercourse and having intimacy was very detrimental to that. the cross-examination lasted a full hour. and the next day the case went to the jury. retire to the jury deliberation room. reporter: it soon became clear jurors were having trouble. indicated that y all have not reached a unanimous decision. reporter: the jurors were split 6-6.
i did pin her down and i took the ring. okay. what was your level of intoxication at that time? i was very intoxicated. but i don t feel like that is an excuse for what i did. reporter: 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 have another baby and i wanted the family to grow. reporter: 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, i had due to the media and some of the internet website, the job that i had, i lost it. reporter: his testimony lasted three hours. jason young was a very good witness. he understood what he had to do when he was on the stand. reporter: so he didn t come off as contrived or phony?
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 2006, when michelle was four months pregnant, jason became deeply involved with another woman. and not just any woman. michelle was one of michelle young s close friends from college. one of those charlie s angels. in early october, days before
jury? certainly. it meant that the person that killed the mother, we felt, cared about cassidy. i do. thank you. fiona childs took the stand. prosecutors pressed her about a life insurance policy. and michelle questioned. that she brought up specifically her life insurance. she brought it up several times, asking me did i think a million dollars was too much and did they really need that. reporter: after michelle died, fiona found out the true amount of the policy was $4 million. i was just like in total shock. that is incredibly excessive. reporter: and prosecutors told the jury about civil lawsuits against jason brought by michelle s mother and sister. one was a wrongful death case filed in 2008, a year before he was charged with murder. over the defense s objection, the court clerk laura freeman testified about that lawsuit. there is an alleged paragraph, paragraph 6, again
jason young went on trial jason young went on trial for the murder of his pregnant wife michelle in june 2011. by then, he had spent 18 months in a jail cell. the guy who lived for tailgates. the guy who loved to party, that guy was long gone. prosecutor becky holt opened for the state. defendant had a plan. his plan was to murder his wife. his plan was to get away with it. reporter: with no murder