why was it important to you that somebody get those papers? because i wanted it to be a surprise. a surprise to michelle means so much more than anything. so brown knew november 3rd, he called his sister-in-law, meredith, from the car to ask if she d go to the house and get the ebay papers. friday, november 3rd. he left meredith a voicemail. do me a huge favor, go over there, see if you can find this e-mail on the computer. then he headed to his mother s place in the mountains nearby and it was there he testified hours later that he learned michelle had been murdered. i i just i just fell. i just i just, i broke on the inside. i just broke and i didn t believe it. family members drove him back to raleigh. during the drive, he said his friends called. ryan and josh had said that the investigators were asking really ugly questions and
murdered michelle marry fisher young. the jury should not been allowed to hear any of that. the jury came to the right verdict and we re confident it will stay. but she was wrong. a man is getting a third trial in the death of his pregnant wife. in april 2014, the north carolina court of appeals granted jason a new trial. but a year later, the state supreme court reversed the appeals court decision. and in 2017, yet another attempt by jason young to get a third trial. this time on grounds his defense team was ineffective was also denied. i love you, too. but children know little of the arcane world of motions and appeals. cassidy has grown. her father, her mother snatches
attack his credibility. did the jury believe them? turns out this case was far from over. here with the conclusion of our story is keith morris. for more than five years, michelle young s family and friends had been waiting for answers. who killed their pretty pregnant michelle? many thought they knew. it was him. you know, i didn t know all the evidence. i didn t know half the things i know now, but i felt that way. one jury failed to decide. but now attorneys were making their final arguments to a second jury. be mad at him. hate him if you want to. but when you look at the physical evidence in this case, it does not match up. it does not match up to jason having killed his wife and unborn son. 30 blows? that s not from a stranger. that is a mad, mad domestic
n that jury was behind closed doors in the wake county superior court. after two days, they were back with a verdict. we, the jury, find the defendant jason lee young to be guilty of first degree murder. guilty first degree murder. jason young didn t flinch. behind him his mother was equally stoistoic. on the other side of the court, michelle s bereaved mother and sister went. they say he s guilty. i was like, what? jason young received a life sentence, chose not to address the court even as the befores led him away, he remained expressionless. the prosecutors were relieved. i was very emotional. had family members there who he
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, court clerk lauren freeman testified about that lawsuit. there is an alleged paragraph, paragraph 6, again, reading verbatim from the record, in the early morning hours of november 3rd, 2006, jason young brutally murdered michelle young at their residence. freeman went on to testify that jason never responded to the allegations. and that led to a fault judgment against him. that judgment said jason killed his wife. a default judgment does not mean the facts alleged in the civil complaint are true. it does not mean he s guilty. and the judge at the criminal trial told the jury that. in his instructions. however, when you hear the statement, jason young brutally murdered his wife, but that doesn t mean he s guilty, folks, hello, you know?