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Murdered michelle marie fisher young. >> way out of bounds, said the attorney. the jury should not have been allowed to hear about any of that. outside the court, michelles sister meredith predicted the appeal would be thrown out. >> the jury came to the right verdict. we are confident it will stay. >> but she was wrong. >> a raleigh man is getting a third trial in the death of his pregnant women. >> reporter: in april, 2014, the judges ruled unanimously that testimony about the civil cases prej...

>> im listening. >> is she breathing? >> i dont think so. >> did you check? >> michelle? shes cold. >> as she spoke, meredith i was cradling her 2 1/2-year-old niece, cassidy, who crawled out from under the bed clothes on her parents bed. feet from where her mother lay. cassidys voice chattering to her aunt was caught on the recorded call. had cassidy witnessed the murder, awakened alone to find this? >> you just picture a small child walking around in this blood and tracking it across the hallw...

And she was empty. >> and what did she tell you? >> things werent working out with jason. >> two days before she was murdered, michelle phoned her sister, meredith, to report yet another blowup with jason. >> she was just, "ive had it." she said, "you know, more than one time, i just cant do this anymore." >> jason was telling one of his close friends the same thing. and prosecutors said just days before michelle was murdered, he had indulged in one last transgression. a casual hook-up with an o...

Ugly. one night in november, 2006, while her husband was away on business, michelle young was attacked in her 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, thi...

Folks. hello? you know? >> and the prosecutor made sure the jury heard just who signed that ruling. >> im reading from this judgment which is signed actually by judge stevens. >> judge stevens. the very judge sitting before them in this trial. >> the jury hearing that, it is just something that is 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 that custody case over daughter, cass...

Surprise. a surprise to michelle means so much more than -- >> around noon, november 3rd, he called his sister-in-law, meredith, from the car to ask if shed go to the house and get those ebay papers. >> friday, november 3rd. >> he left meredith a voicemail. >> do me a huge favor and go over there, see if you can find something on the computer. >> then he headed to his mothers place in the mountains nearby and it was there, he testified, hours later that he learned michelle had been murdered. >> ...

Hilton drove off heading 12 miles north to an atm in blairsville, georgia. he told detectives meredith had given him her p.i.n. numbers back on blood mountain. did meredith expect it would be all over for her if she gave him the correct numbers? in any case, she had given him bad information. >> and did didnt work? >> it didnt work. shes still telling me, its going to work, its going to work. must be a problem with the bank. >> hilton next tried to use merediths cards at a bank 50 miles south in...

>> this is gruesome beyond belief. >> yes. >> for what reason? >> i dont know. >> hilton had confessed to killing meredith emerson. but what about those other cases in the national forests? a woman in florida, the elderly couple in north carolina. >> he would not talk about anybody to us other than meredith. >> because you have to wonder when the switch was thrown in this man. >> i know. >> how many decades maybe does this go back? >> i dont know. do people just wake up when theyre 61 and start ...

Extr extr extra," im craig melvin. gary hilton was charged with the murder of meredith emerson and police would soon hear about her last moments. as it turns out, her family and friends were right. she fought hard for her life. once again, dennis murphy. >> in your decades of law enforcement, have you ever had a session of interviews like this one? >> no. no. he was very straightforward and was very nonchalant about the whole thing. >> so you get down to the point where -- well, with meredith, i...

He said he knew the dog had the identifying chip when he let the dog foe in the supermarket parking lot. >> if i wanted to ensure that no one would have associated the dog with her, i would have killed the dog. theres no way i could do that. >> he was too much of a softy to kill the dog, as he explained it. but poor meredith, ellas owner, never had a chance. >> she was dead from the beginning. because i just told you, once youve done it, youre either going to kill her or get caught. theres no ot...