My mother called and said michelle is dead. How is that possible . Reporter a young mother found brutally murdered. Her little girl left to wander in her mothers blood. Police had a suspect and they say he had a motive. But could they prove he was the killer . It was a circle case. Reporter except for that witness. The girl who left those footprints. We will never know what cassidy saw and what she didnt see. Maybe she couldnt tell detectives who the killer was, but maybe, she didnt have to. The fact that cassidy was spared, would that mean anything to the jury . The person that killed the mother killed about cassidy. Hello, welcome to dateline. Michelle young was married to her College Sweetheart four months pregnant with their second child. The young mother was beaten to death in her own bedroom. The investigation revealed a troubled marriage. But the husband was away on business and unraveling this case would take years. Here is Keith Morrison with Silent Witness. I think i paused f
reason she was found. he called meredith to go to the house. jason young s business trip that night was routine. security tapes showed him getting gas about 7:30 p.m. as he left raleigh. two hours later, he was seen on tape at a cracker barrel restaurant in greensboro. later he checked into this hampton inn in hillsdale, virginia. this is him at 8:00 p.m. and him again at midnight. he also made a phone call around midnight, and that was the last time anybody heard from jason young until he made another call at 7:40 the next morning. a normal person would look at this and say well he was 170 miles away, he s got an alibi. that sounds like a great distance, you know, but 170 miles, you can get from the crime scene to the hotel in about two and a half hours. perhaps, but there were curious anomalies to the crime scene that they couldn t explain. the jewelry box with the two drawers missing. was it a bungled burglary?
then this. attorneys for jason young demanding a new trial saying the trial that led to his conviction had significant errors. december 2013, jason young s new attorney launched his appeal. who is the killer? is jason young the person responsible for miss young s death? and, you know, it seems fundamentally unfair. what was fundamentally unfair? remember during the trial the prosecutor pointed out the possible of civil cases against jason brought by michelle s family. they accused jason of murder. jason young brutally murdered michelle young. way out of bound, said the attorney. the jury should not have been allowed to hear about any of that. outside the court michelle s sister meredith predicted the appeal would be thrown out. but she was wrong. a raleigh man is getting a
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
raised on long island, new york. smiling all the time. she was the life of the party. s stacia grossman knew her from childhood. she didn t like being the center of attention but liked creating a great atmosphere for everyone to have ai good time. michelle was a cheerleader in high school and a straight a student. jennifer powers felt down to her. she had a book worm sense to her where she was very studious and goal oriented and a great person to be around and a fun, happy spirit, and someone that i wanted to spend a lot of time with. lots of people did. when she chose a college far from home, north carolina state, she was soon surrounded again by an admiring group of women friends, best friends, buddies. fiona child was her sorority big sister. there is one picture and it came out beautiful because we liked it because we thought we looked like charlie s angels posed without intention of doing that. it was sometime in 2001 when friends started hearing about michelle s