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 for a second. Had to take a deep breath. And, just reality of what was going on. What was going on. The footprints were unforgettable. They were tiny, and they were bloody. I had to get my composure to finish searching this house and make sure there was no one in the house. Scott was the wake county sheriffs deputy dispatched to a quiet and leafy neighborhood called Enchantedhohe Oaks On Th Outskirts of raleigh, North Carolina. Her because of a 911 call from this place on birch leaf drive. Tell me what happened, man. 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, 29yearold Michelle Young, a woman, who in depth death, was about to be famous. Nor is she breathing . I dont think so. Have you checked . Shes cool. As she spoke, meredith was cradling twoyearold cassidy who had crawled out from under the bed close just feet from where her mother lay. Cassidys voice was cut oton th recorded call. Had to cassidy witnessed the murder . Awakened alone, to findf this . You just picture a small child Walking Around in this blood and tracking it across the hallway over into the bathroom. And now, wake county investigators were descending on the house and having secured the crime scene, earps job was done, but on his way out He Saw Cassidy again. She was still in her pink pajamas, still in merediths arms. He asked meredith a question. I looked over at the child. I didnt see any blood so asked her,do i did you clean the chil and her responses know. I thought it was kind of odd because i was expecting her to say yes i did. Somebody did. Yes, somebody did. But who . Was it the same person who murdered the little girls mother . On this november dale they hadw were questions. Richard spidey, then a sheriff with wake county sheriffs office, probably knows the case better than a. This was a brutal, vicious beating. There was a lot of time and energy into this assault. S s the medical examiner told us there was over 30 blows with some sort of a blunt object. Detectives started investigating the victim and everyone else around her. Michelle young was born and raised on long island, new york. You smiling all the time and she was the life of the party. Stacia grossman knew her from childhood. She didnt like being the center of attention but she liked creating a great atmosphere for everyone to have a good time. Michelle was a cheerleader in high school and a straight a student. Jennifer powers felt drawn to her. She had the sort of Bookworm Side to her for she was very studious and goal oriented. She was also just a great person to be around, a fun, happy spirit and someone i wanted to spend a lot of time with. Lots of people dead, and 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. Waas fiona childs was her sorority big sister. There was this one picture and its like it just came out beautiful and we liked it because we kind of thought we look like charlies angels pose without intentionally doing that. It was sometime in 2001 when friends started hearing about michelles new guy, Fellow Student Named jason young, heard how had grown up in the North Carolina mountains, how he loved to camp, how he was the life it tailgate parties. Michelle fell hard and fast. They seemed like a good couple. He was differenthe i from men s dated in the past. He wasnt a serious about a career as she was. He was a little bit less sophisticated than michelle was, but she seemed to be very happy with him. Michelle and jason married p the day after the wedding, they shared their big secret. Michelle e was pregnant. There dottie, daughter, cassidy was born the next year. And when she came along, it was love at first sight. Michelle was an enthusiastic mother. By all accounts, jason was a good dad. He was a great playmate. He knew how to sit on the floor and play with his daughter, you know. The youngest moved into The Big House On Birch Street in 2005. Both of them worked. He, a salesman. She, a financial specialist. In the summer of 2006, michelle got pregnant again. They kept the news to themselves but it was clear20alt something good was happening. The comment he said to me was, he is excited to have another baby, not implying that she was pregnant but that he was excited at the prospect of it. But, just a few months later, michelle was dead. Jason was 170 miles away in. He nia on a Business Trip wim heard the news that afternoon and return to raleigh. Stacia grossman got word from her mother. My mother calls and said michelle is dead. And i said michelle who . Some celebrity . Like what are you talking about, like what do you mean . Like how is that possible, what happened . 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One night in November 2006 when 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. 5yearold 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 spidey, lead investigator. Of those of us who work in law enforcement, this is our profession but we are also parents. Michelles husband, jason was hundred and 70 miles away the night of the mayor murder but even so, investigators had to look at him. We know he was the last person to talk to michelle that night and also the reason why she was found. Jason youngs Business Trip that time was routine. Security tape showed him getting gas 7 30 p. M. As he left rahway. Two hours later he was seen on tape at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in greensboro. Later he checked into this hampton m in hillsboro, virginia. This is him at the front desk and 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 shes 170 miles away, hes got an alibi. That sounds like a great distance, but 170 miles, you can get between the crime scene in the hotel and about 2. 5 hours. Perhaps, but they were curious anomalies at the crime scene. Could not explain them. Jewelry boxes missing two drawers, so was it a bungled burglary . Then, there were footprints near the body that seemed to eliminate jason, an obvious print on a pillow was a size 10, but jason wore a size 12. But, this was weird. There was another partial footprint that defied easy identification so they began calling in shoe experts but now they wondered whether two attackers . Investigators discovered early on that michelle and jasons marriage was strained and in the last weeks of michelles life, things were not good. And her friend shelleys wedding, she was so drunk and really out of it. When we got to the wedding, our friends were letting us know that michelle and jason were fighting and they were referring to it as world war iii. Jennifer powers told investigators about another fight that october. Michelle wanted her mother to stay with them for the holidays and jason, who had a tense relationship with his motherin law, wanted to limit her stay and said so in an email along with another nugget. He wrote, our marriage has seen better days and i dont see it trending up and i remember that really striking a chord with me because i didnt know that their marriage had seen better days. Of course, investigators wanted to interview jason young. Maybe he could tell them something. But he refused to talk to them. You talk to the lawyer and then under the advice of counsel, he declined to speak with us at all. Didnt ask about her . Didnt ask how his wife died . No. Perhaps, investigators thought, that Business Trip deserved a second look so they went to the hotel and poked around, and discovered some odd activities that night in the stairwell near an exit. There was a camera there that had been unplugged. Really . Yes. It was one of the side exits of the hotel, i guess the fire stairs that go down to the first floor. Was there any other tempering done . The door that was adjacent to where this camera was located, the door also had been propped open that night. The gentleman that was working as the clerk that night on the rock that had been placed in the door to keep the door from closing. To keep the door from the plug the camera back in so its no working again in about 6 45 that morning suddenly, that camera is pointed straight at the ceiling. Same camera and it is tempered with yet again. As that was jason youngs work, is it possible he did make the 340 mile roundtrip . Could he have killed his wife and cleaned up his daughter all in the 7. 5 hours without ever being seen . To find out, investigators played a hunch. They visited every gas station along the route, show jasons photo, talked to the night clerks, and came across a woman named gracie dahms in a tiny place called kane, North Carolina. She took one look at that photograph and recognized it instantly. He was the foul Mouth Customer she said, who came storming into the store to complain that the pumps were locked and what time was it . 5 30 a. M. There was actually an altercation between the two of them, so you have a reason why she would remember him as opposed to any other customer that may have happened into the store. If that attendant was right, investigators may have undercut jasons alibi. Still, it was not enough, so they plodded ahead, painstaking weight work took time and then years after the murder, they finally got a match for that partial footprint. The State Bureau Of Investigation and the fbi were able to eventually identify the shoe as a hush puppy orbital shoe size 12, the same size that he wore. Throughout the investigation, Jason Steadfastly maintained his silence and rather than face a legal battle where he would be asked some tough questions, he even gave michelles Family Custody of his daughter. Everyone we spoke with, all of them spoke about how much he Loved Cassidy and what a great dad he was. To just turn over primary custody was very surprising. Investigators had heard enough. They believed they had a case. Circumstantial, but a case. Three years after Michelle Youngs body was found on the bedroom floor, jason young was charged with her murder. Investigators and prosecutors knew that very little pointed directly toward jason young, but so far, nothing pointed away. Coming up, the case against jason young as an alleged killer and as a cheating husband. We had an intimate relationship for the two days he was there. We ended up having sex. When dateline continues. When dateline continues. Keith morrison voiceover jason young went on trial for the murder of his pregnant wife michelle in june, 2011. By then, hed spent 18 months in a jail cell. The guy who lived for tailgates, the guy who loved to party that guy was long gone. Becky holt was the prosecutor who opened for the state. Becky holt the defendant had a plan. Jason young went on trial for the murder of his pregnant wife, michelle, in june 2011. By then, he had spent 18 months in a jail cell. The guy who lived for tailgates and love to party, that guy was long gone. Vicki holt was the prosecutor who opened for the state. The defendant had a plan. The plan is to murder his wife. His plan was to get away with it. With no Murder Weapon found, the prosecutions case was built on the partial shoe print. They knew now that jason once owned a pair of hushpuppies like these that matched the print they were now missing. They also told jurors about the Early Morning visit to the gas station and suspicious activity at the hotel, but the thrust of their case was this. Jason young was trying in the most violent possible way to get out of a troubled marriage. Were you aware of tensions in that marriage . Yes. I was well aware. Meredith fisher, michelle sister, lived near the couple and for a time was cassidys nanny. Michelles main issues were jason been more responsible, understanding her more, and his main concern was their lack of sex life. Prosecutors called friends to stand Paint Picture of a marriage that was unraveling out loud and in public. Jason made it very well known that you know, he was upset about the lack of sex in the relationship. At parties, said fiona childs, jasons exrated were famously overthetop. I never observed it myself. I would hear about it and he would expose himself and do what he thought was his funny tricks and i was always just rather embarrassed for michelle. You never settle down. It was as if he was still living the single life and he never called into the marriage and what all that meant. In october 2006 when michelle was four months pregnant, jason became deeply involved with another woman. And, not just any woman. Michelle money was one of Michelle Youngs Close Friends from college. Look at those charlies angels. In early october, days before his third wedding anniversary, jason flew to florida to see Michelle Money. She testified they both knew it was wrong. We basically just hung out at the house and we had an intimate relationship for the two days he was there. Jason was crazy about her, his friend said. He basically told me that he thought he was in love with her. Michelles mother testified that in the final weeks of michelles life, she could see the toll the failing marriage was taken on her pregnant daughter. She had her head on my lap, and she was lying out and i was stroking her hair and she w