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get those ebay papers. he left meredith a voice mail. then he headed to his mother s place in the mountains nearby. it was there he learned michelle had been murdered. i just fell. i broke on the inside and i just didn t believe it. family members drove him back to raleigh. during the drive he said his friends called. ryan and josh said that the investigators were asking and they were asking ugly questions, pointing their fingers at me. and doing things like that. and they said, you don t talk to anybody, you need to get a lawyer before you talk to anybody. and the explanation for his long silence. the lawyer after talking with him, and advised me to not go and talk to the police.
out to find her killer, no way to get those little footprints out of their minds. sergeant richard, lead investigator. those of us who work law enforcement, this is our profession, we are also parents, that certainly strikes a different note with you when you see something like that. michelle s husband jason, a medical software salesman was 170 miles away on the night of the murder. even so, investigators had to look at him. we know he was the last person to talk to michelle that night. and that he was also the reason why she was found. he called meredith that she should go to the house. jason young s business trip that night was routine. security tapes show him getting gas 7:30 pm when he left raleigh. two hours later he was seen on tape at a cracker barrel restaurant in greensboro. later he checked into this hamptons in. this is him at the front desk at about 11 pm. and him again at midnight. he also made a phone call around midnight and that was the last that anyone had hear
sports schedules and some standings and so i wanted to see if i could pick up the usa today as well. and that newspaper run explains why he was seen at the front desk at midnight. you smoked a cigar, went back upstairs and went to sleep. did you leave that room until the next morning? no sir. next morning, after the sales call, jason testified that he realized he had left some ebay printouts sitting on the computer printer at home. they showed purses, thinking of buying one for myself as a belated anniversary present. i realized didn t bring those papers. why was it important to you to give the papers? i wanted to surprise michelle. a surprise to michelle means so much more than anything. around noon, november 3rd, he called his sister-in-law meredith from the car to ask if she would go to the house and
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