the facts were stark and ugly. one night in november 2006, while her husband was away on business, michelle young was attacked in her own bedroom and brutally beaten to death. her body discovered the next day by her sister meredith along with her 2 1/2-year-old daughter cassidy, who had been left to wander in her blood. for the investigators who set out to find her killer, no way to get those little footprints out of their minds. sergeant richard spivey, lead investigator. those of us that work in law enforcement, this is our profession, but we re 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 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 he was also the reason why she was found. he called meredith fisher to go to the house. reporter: jason young s business trip that n
breath. and just the reality of what was going on would sink in. reporter: those who saw the footprints will not forget them. they were tiny and they were bloody. i had to get my composure to finish searching this house to make sure there was nobody else in the house. reporter: it was the third of november 2006, early afternoon. scott earp was the wait county sheriff s deputy dispatched to a quiet leafy neighborhood called enchanted oaks on the outskirts of raleigh, north carolina. here because of the 911 call from this place, on birchfield drive. i think my sister is dead. tell me what happened. i have no idea. the caller was meredith fisher. she had just discovered on the floor of the master bedroom the savagely beaten body of her elder sister, 29-year-old michelle young, a woman who in death was about to be famous. listen to me, ma am. i ll tell you what you have to do. you need to calm down so we can help you. you said there s blood everywhere? listen to me ma am.
the advice of his own lawyers and freely offering crucial details. he admitted he had given andrea three blue pills, three round, blue pills that were friends. reporter: and there was more. dolores specifically asked him about quaaludes, a prescription sedative popular in the 70 s when you got the quaaludes was it in your mind that you were going to use these quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with? cosby answered yes. and he never takes them himself. he said he had seven prescriptions of quaaludes for young women to have sex with. reporter: in november 2006, cosby settled the lawsuit and admitted no wrongdoing. andrea signed a non-disclosure agreement, and cosby paid her $3.38 million. the depositions sealed from the public. now what was it you wanted to say? reporter: and while a few other women made accusations against the comedian, the story essentially died out. until 2014, eight years later, when another comedian took the
happened to litvinenko, after all andrei lugovoi was a person from his past. but as we ve seen, there were a number of people in litvinenko s past who may have wanted him dead. the fsb colleagues he denounced. the russian mobsters he was investigating. perhaps someone who thought he was a traitor for working with british intelligence. since november 2006 litvinenko s widow marina has been asking how big was the conspiracy? who was behind it? how high did it go? dangerous questions, as she knows better than anyone. . you think you play chess, but they play russian roulette. reporter: those who were closest to litvinenko believe the kill order may have come from the very top because litvinenko picked a fight with the wrong person from his past. none other than russian president vladimir putin. sasha was on a mission. he was trying to prove that putin is as corrupt as anybody in post-communist russia. reporter: the mission may have started years before when litvinenko made that fl
friends. reporter: and there was more. dolores specifically asked him about quaaludes, a prescription sedative popular in the 70 s when you got the quaaludes was it in your mind that you were going to use these quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with? cosby answered yes. and he never takes them himself. he said he had seven prescriptions of quaaludes for young women to have sex with. reporter: in november 2006, cosby settled the lawsuit and admitted no wrongdoing. andrea signed a non-disclosure agreement, and cosby paid her $3.38 million dollars. the depositions sealed from the public. now what was it you wanted to say? reporter: and while a few other women made accusations against the comedian, the story essentially died out.