stroking her hair. and she was empty. and what did she tell you? things weren t working out with jason. two days before she was murdered, michelle phoned her sister meredith to report yet another blow-up with jason. she was just, i ve had it. she said that, you know, more than one time. i can t do this anymore. jason was telling one of his close friends the same thing. and prosecutors said just days before michelle was murdered, he indulged in one last transgression, a casual hook-up with an old friend named carol anne sauerby in his own living room. michelle was away at the time. cassidy was put down to bed and had a couple drinks.
had the chair and doll and mommy doll in other hand and just hit him. unsettling as it was, prosecutors wanted jurors to know he left a silent witness behind, a witness he would never harm. the fact that cassidy was spared, did that mean anything to you or would that mean anything to a jury? certainly, it meant that the person tha killed the mother, we felt, cared about cassidy. fiona childs took the stand. prosecutors pressed her about a life insurance policy jason arranged. and michelle had questions. it did raise a red flag that she brought up specifically her life insurance. she brought it up several times asking me didn t i think that asking me didn t i think that a million dollars was too much,
it does not mean he s guilt. 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? and prosecutors made sure the jury heard who signed that ruling. judge stephens. the judge in front of them for this trial. jury hearing that, that s going to carry a lot of weight. this is the complaint that was filed in december seeking custody of cassidy. prosecutors also called the attorney involved in the custody case over daughter cassidy and the same allegations were repeated yet again. the jury heard several times through the two civil complaints that jason young brutally murdered michelle young.
february, 2012, this time howard cummings led the prosecution, hoping to use jason s own words to convict him. but first, prosecutors called that night clerk at the gas station, gracie, who remembered jason complaining about the locked pumps. when he came to in pay, he started cussing and raising cane. what time did this happen? 5:00, 5:30 in the morning. a time jason said he was at the hotel. then prosecutors had new witnesses and new testimony. they wanted jurors to hear about cassidy who s bloody footprints they contended made her a witness to murder. . when i got to cassidy, i said, what are you doing? day care worker took the stand. told them she watched cassidy playing alone days after her mother was murdered.
we will never know what l cassidy saw and what she didn t see. n maybe she couldn t tell detectives who the killer was, but maybe she didn t have to. the fact that cassidy was spared, would that mean anything to a jury. , the person that killed the mother cared about cassidy. hello, welcome to dateline. michelle young was married to her college sweetheart, four months pregnant with her second child when the unthinkable happened. the young mother beaten to death in her own bathroom. troubled marriage. but husband was away on businesn and unraveling this complicated case would take years. here s keith morrison with silent witness. i think i paused for a second and had to take a deep breath