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>> reporter: throughout the investigation, jason steadfastly maintained silence. rather than face a legal battle where he would be asked tough questions, spivey, he even gave michelle's family custody of his daughter. >> all of them talked about how much he loved cassidy. what a great dad he was. to just turn over primary custody, that was, that was very surprising. >> reporter: investigators had heard enough. they believed they had a case, circumstantial, but a case. and three years after michelle young's body was found on the bedroom floor, jason young was charged with her murder. investigat...

>> reporter: the facts were stark and 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 who work in law enforcement this is our profession. but we are also parents that certainly strikes a, di...

>> i wanted her to have that. >> and began to rip it apart. >> i don't remember. >> reporter: prosecutors tried to show, jason's call to meredith to pick up the e-bay printouts was merely a ploy to get her to discover the body and find cassidy. why else would he print an e-bay auction ad leave it on the printer and hit the road where he couldn't bid during the actual auction. they called sergeant spivey to the stand. >> that auction would end, 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time. >> what day was that? >> that was on november 2nd, 2006. >> reporter: just hours before the murder. now, prosecutors tr...

>> i looked over the child. i asked her did you clean the child? her response was no. i thought it was kind of odd. because i was expecting her to say, yes, i guess. >> reporter: somebody did? >> yeah, somebody did. >> but who? the same person who murdered the little girl's mother? on this november day, all they had were questions. sergeant richard spivey of the wake county sheriff's office probably knows the case better than anyone. >> this was just a brutal, vicious beating. there was a lot of time and energy invested in the assault. >> reporter: why? >> the medical examiner told us there we...