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Brought by michelles family. they accused jason of murder. >> jason young brutally murdered michelle young. >> the defendant brutally murdered michelle marie fisher young. >> way out of bound said the attorney. the jury should not have been allowed to hear about any of that. outside the core, michelles sister meredith predicted the appeal would be thrown out. >> the jury came to the right verdict. we are confident. >> reporter: a raleigh man is getting a third trial. >> reporter: in april, 2014,...

Printouts on the computer at home. they showed purses thinking of buying one for michelle as belated anniversary. >> i realize i didnt bring the papers. >> why was it important to you somebody get the papers? >> because i wanted it to be a surprise. a surprise to michelle means so much more. >> reporter: noon, november 3rd. he called his sister-in-law, meredith, from the car and asked if she would go to the house and get the e-bay papers. he left meredith a voice mail. then he headed to his moth...

Grace right now in turbulent times. what do you think? >> i think that meredith is exactly right. i know that i spoke to her regarding what was going on in the country. some of it she spoke about when i interviewed her last on cnn. i think it was in 2016. we talked about criminal justice. we talked about police brutality. we talked about african-americans being killed by police. she felt very strongly about that. she said raising black kids now, black boys now was different. its all out there on...

>> 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, whod 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 who...

And im sure that he may have thought, i maybe should have chosen somebody else. >> eventually hilt hadden wore meredith down. by then they were way off the main trail. hilton tied his captive to a tree and doubled back to that site where he had been stripped of his weapon. the bay owe net was gone, lost on the forest floor and the hiker had picked up the baton. hilton returned to meredith. >> i told her i had a gun and, you know, i was going to shoot her as now. >> skirting the main trail, he le...

Convinced that he had taken meredith emerson, authorities started hearing about yet another national forest homicide, this one in north carolina. >> so theb youve got to be saying to your team of vectors, what do we have here? >> thats right. >> now were wondering who we really have here and where is he? and, more importantly, wheres meredith? do we have a killer running around loose in the national forest? >> concerned for meredith deepens, but her friends know something that man on the mount...

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 that, you know, more than one time, i 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 indulged in one last transgression. a casual hookup with an old friend...

Money. she commented that she -- she said, dont you know the worlds looking for you? and he hung up. >> hilton called from a pay phone at a convenience store near where merediths dog had turned up. you have a living pet, a missing owner and a phone somewhere in the vicinity of this guy you believe is her abductor. >> yes. while the agents are searching in the area of the convenience store, they look in a dumpster. it was in the dumpster we found merediths identification, her purse, bags of blood...

This one lasted for 12 minutes. >> dekalb, 911. >> i have the person of interest in that missing woman case is at this chevron gas station on asher dunwoody. >> the man is there? >> the van is here. the dog is here, the road dog. and i saw the mans face. ive been watching the news and i know its him. i know its him. hes emptying the stuff out of his van, looking around like hes guilty as sin. i can go take him down if you want. >> no, sir. stay right there. >> here comes the cops. yes. yes. >> p...

>> 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. >> reporter: judge stevens. the very judge sitting before them in this trial. >> the jury hearing it, its just something thats 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, cassidy. and those same ...