Michelle Young

[sunstar]

I'm still praying that there will be some clue that was overlooked or hasn't been found yet that will solve this case. I feel so sorry for little Cassidy. :(

[dkny]

I know, i want to see this crime solved so bad. Justice for Michelle.

[annalyzer]

[B]
She was found Friday afternoon by Meredith Fisher, her sister, who had stopped by the house at 5108 Birchleaf Drive in the Enchanted Oaks subdivision, according to the Wake County Sheriff's Office.

No arrest has been made in the homicide, and investigators do not have a suspect.

"Right now we just don't have a lot," Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison said Monday evening. The evidence so far indicates the crime did not occur at random, he said. He declined to discuss the evidence.

In a 911 tape released Monday, Fisher told an emergency dispatcher that Young's 2-year-old daughter was in the house when she found Young, bloody and cold to the touch, lying face down in her bedroom. Young should have been at work at Progress Energy, where she was a senior financial specialist in the tax department.

The house was in disarray, and the dog was "freaking out," Fisher told the dispatcher.

She said there were tiny, bloody footprints all over the house left by the toddler.

The young girl can be heard on the 911 tape mumbling after her aunt asked her: "Do you know what happened to Mommy? Did she fall?"

A dispatcher tried to have Fisher revive Young but had her stop once Fisher said her sister's body was stiff.

"There's probably nothing else you can do," he said before transferring the call to the sheriff's office.



The 911 call:

http://wral.com/news/local/audio/1119462/

[dkny]

Has anybody heard anything ? I was just wondering. TIA

[KittyMom]

I really wish Jason would talk to investigators and allow Michelle's mother to have regular time with her granddaughter. This case is one that just stays with you. It really needs some closure.

[annalyzer]

Has anybody heard anything ? I was just wondering. TIA

I don't think there has been any new news. I hope it doesn't become a cold case.

[dkny]

Thanks, I am hoping against hope that it has not become a cold case. There must be some reason that they executed that latest warrant. JMO

[LisaKay]

I wish Jason would cooperate to. I really don't think he will as he has not thus far. It's a real tragedy to have your daughter and her unborn child so brutally killed. Just to have your granddaughter the only piece of her daughter she has left, striped from her as well. I do believe that who ever did this new her and new her well. Usually when you are killed in the manner that Michelle was it's someone full of a lot of anger and hate. Just my own opinion. I feel so bad for the little ones left behind in these messes!

[Shotzie]

Is there anyone on this board that lives in that town and can give us the latest scuttle butt, I wouldn't think people in that town have forgotten Michelle and hopefully know something to bring this case to closure.
RIP Michelle:1222423:

[nanabillie]

Greta said their was some news in this case, but she ran out of time and never told what the news was. As far as I know. Don't think I could have missed ir.

[annalyzer]

It is a travesty of justice that so much time has passed and LE has not even named a suspect! I think it's time someone put a burr up LE's butt and get some work done on this case!

[annalyzer]

This should be moved to the unsolved murder forum. Michelle was never missing.

[KittyMom]

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/3365337/
Posted: Aug. 12, 2008

RALEIGH, N.C. — The husband of a pregnant woman found beaten to death in her Raleigh home nearly two years ago refused to help investigators or talk with detectives until he had retained a lawyer, according to new search warrants.

The warrants, unsealed Monday, also show police found DNA evidence belonging to Jason Young in blood spatter and bloody shoe prints on a pillow at the crime scene inside the couple's home at 5108 Birchleaf Drive.

Michelle Young, 29, was found dead in the bedroom Nov. 3, 2006. Her daughter, Cassidy, then 2, was by her mother's side and was unhurt.

Investigators do not think the crime was random. Young was last seen alive at 10:30 p.m. on Nov. 2. Her husband was out of town on business when his wife's body was found, authorities said.

In Feb. 13 search warrant affidavits for the homes of Jason Young's mother and sister, detectives said they had tried enlisting his assistance in the early stages of the investigation but that he refused.

"Due to Jason Young's lack of cooperation, it became necessary for investigators to confirm his whereabouts during the evening of Nov. 2, 2006 and the early-morning hours of Nov. 3, 2006," authorities wrote in the affidavit.

Hotel surveillance video
The next day, Wake sheriff's investigators seized computer records and video from 14 surveillance cameras from the Hillsville Hampton Inn in Virginia – more than 170 miles from Raleigh – where Jason Young claimed to be at the time of his wife's death.

The affidavits stated video shows Jason Young in the lobby of the between 10:49 p.m. and 10:51 p.m. on Nov. 2, 2006, wearing a light-colored, long-sleeved shirt with buttons at the neck. He is visible again on video recorded at 11:59 p.m. wearing a dark, long-sleeved shirt with a light-colored horizontal stripe.

Shortly after his second appearance, he is recorded headed toward a side exit at the hotel, where hotel employees discovered a rock had been placed in the door jam to keep the door from closing and automatically locking, investigators said.

"It also made it unnecessary for anyone to use their keycard when re-entering through this door. This is important because the keycard system records when a keycard is used. It also records to whom the keycard has been assigned."

Jason Young's key card was used on one occasion, approximately six minutes after he checked into the hotel, according to the affidavits.

On the day of Michelle Young's death, Jason Young went to his mother's house in Brevard. His mother, Pat Young, and stepfather, Gerald McIntyre, told investigators that Jason did not remove any luggage from his SUV while at their house, and did not wash, change or throw away any clothing.

After learning of Michelle Young's death, he headed back to Raleigh with his parents, sister and brother-in-law, the warrant states. Upon his arrival, at the home of his sister-in-law, uniformed deputies searched his car and seized the contents. According to the warrant, the dark shirt seen in hotel video was not recovered.

Shoe prints and DNA evidence
Investigators also identified two footprints on a pillow at the crime scene – one made by a Franklin athletic shoe and another made by a Hush Puppies brand shoe. They followed up with DSW Shoe Warehouse, after a purchase card for that store was found in the Young residence.

Similar impressions of shoe prints were found on some stained decking boards during a search of the home more than a year later, investigators said.

Purchase records show that Jason Young purchased four pairs of shoes on July 4, 2005, including Hush Puppies with the same sole style as that found at the crime scene. The warrants, however, did not indicate whether police found the Hush Puppies.

Investigators also found DNA on a closet near where Michelle Young's body was discovered that matched Jason Young. A partial DNA sample found on a jewelry box was a partial match that could not exclude Jason Young.

Cash among missing items
Investigators said that during a May 3, 2007, interview with Jason Young's mother, Pat Young identified several items missing from the crime scene, including a white and yellow gold bracelet, an egg-shaped sterling silver tooth box, a man's platinum wedding ring, a pair of diamond earrings and a pearl necklace.

Approximately $500 in cash was also missing, and, according to the affidavits, investigators were looking for cash gas receipts.

"If Jason Young returned to his residence on the night of Nov. 2, 2006, and/or the morning of Nov. 3, 2006, he would have needed to purchase additional fuel for his car. In order to avoid making a recorded bank and/or credit card transaction, a cash purchase would have been necessary."

Still no suspects
Although the three search warrants focus on Jason Young, he has not been named a suspect in his wife's slaying.

Sheriff Donnie Harrison declined to comment on the case Monday but said in a Feb. 18 interview that detectives were following up on everything they could.

"It just takes time," Harrison said. "There's so much involved in this case – so many things involved in this case – that we just want to take our time, and this is just a part of it."

Jason Young and his daughter moved to the western part of the state and is now living at this mother's home.

The house on Birchleaf Drive was put on the market last July and was recently sold.

Jason Young's attorney could not be reached for comment Monday.

Reporter: Bryan Mims
Photographer: Greg Clark
Web Editors: Jodi Leese Glusco, Kelly Gardner

[Faith]

Michelle Young's slaying remains unsolved


Published: Nov 03, 2008 12:30 AM
Modified: Nov 03, 2008 07:06 AM

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Flowers surround the headstone on Michelle Young's grave. Friends and family gathered Sunday to remember her.

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CARY - Those who loved Michelle Young gathered Sunday around the two granite hearts that mark her grave -- a large one inscribed for the young mother who died two years ago today, a small one tucked inside and marked "Rylan" for the son she was carrying.

Young's pregnant body was found lying face-down in a pool of blood Nov. 3, 2006, in her home south of Raleigh. Search warrants show that sheriff's investigators have focused on her husband, Jason Young, though no arrests have been made.

The somber anniversary comes just days after the arrest of Brad Cooper on murder charges in the slaying of his wife, Nancy -- the case of another suburban couple with young children and a seemingly bright future shattered by sudden violence.

Cooper was found dead in an empty cul-de-sac near her Cary home July 14. Attention quickly focused on Brad Cooper, who was arrested Oct. 27.

Carol Nelson, a friend and co-worker of Young's at Progress Energy, said she was heartened by the arrest in the Cooper case. Nelson has developed a keen sense in the past two years of how an unsolved murder can weigh on a victim's loved ones.

But she is frustrated that while Brad Cooper faces murder charges, Michelle Young's case remains unsolved.

"It's discouraging," said Nelson, who attended the memorial Sunday at Wake Memorial Park in Cary. "You do start to wonder if they are ever going to make an arrest."

Footprints left behind

After Michelle Young was killed, deputies found tiny footprints in blood left by her 2-year-old daughter, along with bloody footprints left by two types of shoes owned by her husband.

Jason Young has said he was out of town at the time Michelle was killed, though investigators found video footage of him leaving a Virginia hotel the night she died. Efforts to reach his attorney, Roger W. Smith Jr., were unsuccessful Sunday.

Sheriff Donnie Harrison said there are no new suspects in the case, but he hopes to make an arrest "in the near future."

"We talk about this case nearly every day," Harrison said in an interview last week. "It's something that's still fresh."

Wake Detective R.C. Spivey, who has been working on the Young case for more than a year, attended the unveiling of her tombstone Sunday. He has attended other events in the past two years held to keep her memory -- and the investigation into her death -- alive.

"These events really bring home the personal side; they put into perspective what we're working so hard for," Spivey said before the memorial service.

At the memorial Sunday, friends and relatives released about a dozen red and pink balloons bearing messages for Young.

Linda Fisher, Young's mother, released a blue one for the grandson who died before he was born. Between sobs, Fisher told the crowd of about 50 people that she had released one the weekend before with her granddaughter, Cassidy, who now lives with Jason Young.

Fisher unveiled the tombstone that only recently came to rest over her daughter's grave. Placing the headstone was a painful hurdle to recovering from her loss, she said at the memorial.

"They always say, 'It's not etched in stone,' " Fisher said. "Well, in this case, it is."

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UNSOLVED CRIMES

Michelle Young is one of several young Triangle mothers slain or reported missing in recent years whose cases remain unsolved. Among others:

Jennifer Nielsen, who was eight months pregnant, was killed while distributing newspapers early on the morning of June 14, 2007 in Raleigh. Her husband is not a suspect in that crime, which appears to have been committed by a stranger.

Kelly Currin Morris has been missing in Granville County since September, when her home was burned to the ground. Authorities named her husband as a person of interest in that case. She is also the mother of two young children.

MICHELLE YOUNG: A TIMELINE

1997: Jason and Michelle Young meet while out with college friends at the now-defunct Have a Nice Day Cafe off Morgan Street near Charlie Goodnight's.

OCTOBER 2003: Jason and Michelle Young are married.

2005: The Youngs buy a house in the Enchanted Oaks subdivision south of Raleigh for $379,000.

NOV. 3, 2006: Michelle Young is found bludgeoned to death in the house. Her 2-year-old daughter is found unharmed. Young's sister, Meredith, found her after Jason Young asked her to pick up a document from the house. Jason Young was on a business trip to Virginia that included a stop at his parents' home in Brevard.

NOVEMBER 2006: Jason Young returns to Raleigh. Investigators seize his 2004 Ford Explorer and its contents. He is ordered to give samples of his fingerprints and blood for DNA analysis. He hires a lawyer and refuses to talk to police.

NOVEMBER 2006-FEBRUARY 2007: In a series of search warrants, investigators say that they found blood in the Explorer, and that Young had been in nearly constant contact with a Florida woman in the months leading up to his wife's death. Michelle Young was "stressed out over money" and furious about a California vacation her husband took without her, the warrants say.

JANUARY 2007: An autopsy shows that Michelle Young died of blunt force trauma to her head. She was also strangled and hit repeatedly in the head, face, neck and shoulders. Her jaw was broken.

AUGUST 2008: Previously sealed search warrants show that blood matching Jason Young's DNA was found at the scene of the crime, as well as shoe prints in blood that match shoes he owned. A surveillance camera at the Virginia hotel where he said he was staying shows him leaving around midnight. Hotel employees found a rock holding open a door that locks automatically

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[Faith]

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Jason and Michelle Young married in 2003. Three years later, she was found bludgeoned to death in their house.

[annalyzer]

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[PinkPony]

Warrant gives new look into Michelle Young murder probe

Posted: Nov. 6 5:00 p.m.
Updated: Today at 9:11 a.m.

Raleigh, N.C. — Wake County authorities found a number of Internet searches, including "head trauma knockout" and "anatomy of a knockout," were made on one of Jason Young's computers prior to the beating death of his wife, Michelle Young, more than two years ago.

The information comes from affidavits that investigators gave a Superior Court judge to back up a request for a new search warrant for the computer that Novo Nordisk had assigned to Jason Young. The executed warrant was returned Thursday after investigators got the computer from the Williams Mullen law firm on behalf of the company.

They show that investigators were focusing on the slain mother-to-be's husband, his phone records, e-mails, conversations and actions before and after his wife was killed.

Michelle Young, 29, was five months' pregnant with her second child when her sister found her lying face down in her bedroom on Nov. 3, 2006. Her then-2-year-old daughter, Cassidy, was unharmed in the same room.

Among other searches that investigators told the judge they had found earlier on a computer of Jason Young's were real estate and owner-listing information for the couple's home at the time, 5108 Birchleaf Drive; "ischemia" (a decrease in the blood supply caused by constriction or obstruction to blood vessels); "divorce" and "right posterior parietal occipital region" (back of the head).

Crime-scene search
The warrant's supporting paperwork reveals that a search of the residence conducted by the City-County Bureau of Identification showed a pillow, located in Michelle Young’s bedroom, carried two footwear impressions in what appeared to be blood.

Further analysis of the footprints showed the number “10” in the shoe’s imprint. The FBI footwear database matched the shoe impression to two Hush Puppies brand shoes that had been discontinued, the warrant stated.

A DSW Shoe Warehouse card was found during the crime-scene search of the Young’s residence. Authorities contacted the DSW store in Cary to locate shoe purchases made by Jason and Michelle Young. It was determined that a pair of Hush Puppies Orbital plain-toe, slip on, men’s casual leather shoes, size 12, were purchased along with three other pairs of shoes on July 4, 2005, according to affidavits investigators supplied in requesting the warrant.

Hush Puppies officials told investigators the Hush Puppies Orbital model had the same outsole design as both the discontinued brands. The shoe had also been discontinued.

A search of the crime scene also found bottles of Tylenol Extra Strength adult cold medicine and Pancof-PD, a drug used to treat cough and nasal congestion associated with upper respiratory tract infections and allergies, in daughter Cassidy’s bedroom, according to the affidavits. Pancof-PD has sleep-inducing side effects.

The medications were located on shelves with children’s vitamins and medications. The safety of the Pancof-PD’s components – chlorpheniramine, dihydrocodeine and phenylephrine – for children younger than 2 has not been established, according to the Web site Drugs.com.

Cassidy Young’s medical records, obtained through a May 29, 2008, court order, showed no mention, prescription or reference to Pancof-PD, investigators said. The records did contain notes of children’s medications, ibuprofen, Tylenol and rash creams, the affidavits continued.

Investigators found Jason Young was a pharmaceutical sales representative for Pan American Laboratories, now known as Pamlab, from March 2002 until January 2005. According to the warrant, company representatives told investigators Jason Young was trained about and represented Pancof-PD.

Phone records and e-mails
Investigators also recovered a number of e-mail exchanges between Jason Young and Michelle Money, a Florida woman with whom they say he was having an extramarital relationship.

Phone records from a month prior to Michelle Young's death also indicate approximately 980 phone calls and text messages between him and Money.

There were approximately 207 cell phone contacts between the two over the next two years and at least one face-to-face meeting, the search warrant says.

Further phone calls from Oct. 4, 2006, to Nov. 3, 2006, also are of interest to investigators, the warrant says, including 28 calls to his mother, Pat Young, on the day Michelle Young was found and four calls from her mother, Linda Fisher, on the same day.

Investigators say that calls from Fisher would have been unusual and that Jason Young's "failure to return those calls needs to be placed in context."

"A call from Linda Fisher would be unusual … Jason Young has a pregnant wife at home, and he has called her twice without reaching her (at work)," the warrant says.

He made one phone call prior to arriving at his mother's house on Nov. 3, and that was to Money, the warrant continues.

E-mail conversations between Jason Young and his sister about his wife's death are also mentioned in the warrant.

"I hired a good attorney … and I haven't been arrested even though it's been obvious that the focus has been on me," he writes.

Marital problems
In addition to Jason Young’s relationship with Money, investigators interviewed two of his former co-workers who claimed he was “very flirtatious” and did not appear to be happily married.

The first co-worker interviewed said Jason Young told her, “I’m not getting sex” and “She (Michelle) bribes me for sex,” according to the warrant.

The second co-worker was trained at Sentric Medical by Jason Young. She said he spoke inappropriately with her about sex and said he was sexually frustrated with his wife.

In e-mails, Jason Young also was found to have denied or hidden his marital status. In May 18, 2006, an e-mail to a female who attended Camp Illahee in Brevard, where Jason Young was an instructor during his teens, he wrote “I didn’t end up getting married…," according to the warrant.

Last week, Michelle Young's mother, Linda Fisher, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Jason Young, claiming he murdered his wife.

Jason Young told Wake County sheriff's investigators that he was out of town on business when his wife was killed, and authorities have never said they suspect him.

Since his wife's death, Jason Young has moved with his daughter, now 4, to western North Carolina to be closer to his family.

Neither Sheriff Donnie Harrison, the Wake County District Attorney's Office, nor attorneys representing Fisher would comment on Thursday's warrant and affidavits. Calls to Jason Young's attorney were not immediately returned.

Earlier this week, however, Harrison said the case is still active with investigators assigned to it full-time.

"We meet on this almost every day. It is no way a cold case," Harrison said. "Hopefully, we'll make an arrest in the near future."


http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/3912962/

[annalyzer]

Slain mom's husband fails to respond to wrongful death suit

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/4061834/

[Nut44x4]

Judge says Young killed wife

Husband not charged with a crime.

Updated: Dec. 6, 2008 4:57 AM
RALEIGH - A judge in a civil suit has ruled that Jason Young killed his wife, Michelle.
The ruling in the wrongful death lawsuit brought by Michelle Young's mother was signed Friday by Wake County Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens.

"It is, therefore, ordered, adjudged and decreed that the Defendant, Jason Lynn Young, willfully and unlawfully killed Plaintiff's decedent, Michelle Marie Fisher Young," Stephens wrote.

Jason Young has not been charged with a crime in his wife's death, but numerous search warrants indicate that detectives have focused their investigation on him.

Michelle Young's body was found in her Wake County home on Nov. 3, 2006. The couple's daughter, Cassidy, then 2, was unharmed but left bloody footprints in the house.

The slain woman's mother, Linda Fisher of Sayville, N.Y., filed the wrongful death suit in late October, accusing her son-in-law of killing her daughter. Fisher asked that all of Michelle Young's assets and life insurance payouts go to the couple's daughter.

Jason Young didn't respond to the lawsuit in the 30 days allowed by law, leading to Stephens' ruling. But his inaction also meant he didn't have to answer questions about his wife's death in a deposition, something for which Fisher and her lawyers had hoped.

Judge Stephens also barred Jason Young from collecting any of his wife's life insurance or benefitting from her estate.

Jason Young was the beneficiary of a life insurance policy covering his wife, and had an ongoing relationship with a married woman in Florida when his wife was killed, according to investigators' search warrants.

In documents connected to the case, sheriff's investigators have reported that Jason Young's computer was used to search the Internet on topics including "anatomy of a knockout," "head trauma knockout," and "divorce" before his wife was found dead.

Stephens' ruling also says that a Wake sheriff's investigator believes Jason Young murdered his wife.

Stephens wrote that affidavits by Investigator R.C. Spivey III say he is familiar with evidence that hasn't become public. "Based upon his knowledge of the evidence gathered in the investigation of the death of Michelle Young and his experience in law enforcement, Investigator Spivey is of the opinion that Jason Young murdered Michelle Young on November 3, 2006."

A spokeswoman for Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison declined to discuss that finding. "We're not commenting on that," said Phyllis Stephens.

Child possibly drugged

In the ongoing criminal investigation, a search warrant made public Friday indicates that investigators suspected the Youngs' toddler daughter was drugged with an over-the-counter medication at the time her mother was killed.

A judge granted the warrant, which allowed investigators to obtain a cheek swab from Cassidy.

The swab would have allowed investigators to obtain Cassidy's DNA and determine whether it matched DNA on a medicine dropper at the crime scene. The dropper had residue from liquid extra-strength Tylenol.

The document, made public Friday after a judge unsealed it, does not indicate whether investigators obtained a DNA match.

"Due to the location of the Tylenol and the dropper, it is believed that the medication was delivered to Cassidy Young," Wake sheriff's investigators said in an application for the warrant. "It is further believed that the medication was delivered to the child under the mistaken belief that it would cause drowsiness.

"Once the child was asleep, the perpetrator would have been able to commit or continue their attack without worrying about interference from the child," the application said.

The warrant was obtained July 26, 2007 -- more than half a year after Michelle Young was found dead.

The same day her mother was discovered, Cassidy was found by her aunt unharmed under the sheets of her mother's bed, the application said.

"This description is in contrast to the small, bloodied footprints that were found on the floor of the child's bathroom," the application said.

Records made public this week showed that sheriff's investigators are searching an e-mail account that belongs to Jason Young. Investigators seized items from the Yahoo account, but the details have not been made public.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1323194.html

[Nut44x4]

Summary and articleshttp://www.newsobserver.com/news/crime_safety/michelle_young/

[annalyzer]

Linda Fisher filed suit for custody of granddaughter Cassidy

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=6564289

http://dig.abclocal.go.com/wtvd/YoungCustody.pdf

[TigressPen]

I hope the Fishers gain custody of this child!

[KittyMom]

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/4487661/

Posted: Feb. 6 5:19 p.m.
Updated: Feb. 6 10:55 p.m.

Raleigh, N.C. — The husband and sister of a slain Wake County woman will share custody of her young daughter under an agreement reached Friday.

Michelle Young was found beaten to death inside her Wake County home on Nov. 3, 2006. Her daughter, Cassidy, then 2, was found in the same room unharmed, authorities have said.

Michelle Young's mother, Linda Fisher, of Sayville, N.Y., filed for custody in December, saying her son-in-law has not provided a stable living environment for his now-4-year-old daughter since his wife's death and that he relies primarily on family members to care for her.

Under the child custody consent order filed late Friday afternoon, Linda Fisher's daughter, Meredith Fisher, who lives in Wake County, will have primary custody of the child after an initial five-month transition period, which ends at noon on Aug. 1.

During the transition period, Cassidy will remain in her father's custody with the exception of six visitations with her aunt totaling 37 days.

Jason Young will then have visitation every other weekend, certain times during the holidays, birthdays and summers.

After his wife's death, Jason Young and Cassidy moved to western North Carolina, where his family lives. He told Wake County sheriff's investigators that he was out of town on business when his wife was killed.

Authorities have not made an arrest in the case, but Detective Richard Spivey, the lead investigator on the case, recently stated in an affidavit that he believes Jason Young killed his wife.

In December, a judge ruled in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Linda Fisher that Jason Young was responsible for his wife's death. Young missed a deadline to respond to that lawsuit.

Legal experts say the ruling has nothing to do with guilt or innocence, but it means Young won't be able to collect benefits from his wife's life insurance policy.
Neither party could be reached for comment Friday afternoon.

Reporter: Ken Smith


I think this is the best thing for this poor little girl.

[annalyzer]

Exclusive: Jason Young ~ Silence Broken

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omg he has gotten really ugly :a1chic:

[Faith]

Cops Expect Arrest 3 Years After Pregnant Mom's Murder
No Word on Whether Suspect Is Husband, Who Was Found Liable for Her Death

Nov. 4, 2009

Police said they expect to make an arrest soon in the bludgeoning death of Michelle Young, the pregnant North Carolina mother who was killed three years ago in front of her young daughter Cassidy. But they wouldn't say whether the person they are eyeing was her husband.

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Family and at least one police investigator believe Michelle Young, shown here with daughter Cassidy, was murdered by her husband, Jason Young, in November 2006, which he denies.

On Tuesday, the third anniversary of Young's murder, Wake County law enforcement officials told ABC News affiliate WTVD-TV in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., that they have not given up on the case, but have moved slowly to make sure that when they do make an arrest, it sticks.

"We've got one shot and we want to make sure when we go in with that shot, we're ready," Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison told WTVD-TV.

"We realize it's been three years and we've been working hard, but we try not to impose artificial deadlines on ourselves," Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby said in an interview with WTVD-TV.

Michelle Young's mother, sister and other relatives have said they suspected her husband, Jason Young, from the start. In March, they were awarded $15.6 million in damages in a wrongful death lawsuit against him, notching a victory in their quest to hold him responsible for her death.

Though Jason Young has never been named a suspect by police, the lead investigator in the case testified during the civil court trial that detectives believe he killed her. The civil suit was filed by Michelle Young's mother, Linda Fisher.

"The pretty obvious point was, this is not the way to end a marriage," Jack Michaels, Fisher's attorney in Raleigh, told ABCNews.com in March after the civil court ruling. "There are divorce courts for that."

Though the family had asked for $36 million, they were awarded $3.9 million in compensatory damages and $11.7 in punitive damages.

"We're probably never going to collect any of this," Michaels said. But if they do, "virtually every dime would go to Cassidy," he said, and the rest to pay for Michelle Young's funeral expenses.

Police in Michelle Young Murder Close to Arrest

"The money doesn't mean anything," Michelle Young's best friend Jennifer Powers told ABCNews.com. "It's all about justice for Michelle."

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Jennifer Powers said she and Michelle Young, her best friend, were looking forward to raising their babies together. Young was five months pregnant when she was killed.

Michelle Young's sister, Meredith Fisher, was awarded primary custody of the couple's nearly 5-year-old daughter last month, with visitation rights for Jason Young on weekends, holidays and other occasions.

Neither Jason Young nor his attorney appeared in court for the wrongful-death ruling. He was deemed responsible for his wife's death in civil court by default last year when he failed to respond to the suit.

"The focus there is on escaping criminal testimony," Michaels said of Jason Young's absence.

According to WTVD, Young has repeatedly proclaimed his innocence. Messages left today with his attorney, Roger Smith Jr. of Raleigh, were not returned and attempts to reach Jason Young or his family were unsuccessful.

'Something Had to Be Done'

Michelle Young, described by friends and family as the quintessential American girl, was found beaten to death on the floor of her bedroom in her home outside Raleigh on Nov. 3, 2006. Cassidy, then 2, was found in bed near her mother's body with clean feet despite child-size bloody footprints found elsewhere in the house. Police believe Cassidy may have been drugged. Michelle Young was five months pregnant with the couple's second child, a son who would have been named Rylan.

Paul Michaels, Linda Fisher's other lawyer, said in December 2008 they hoped the civil court ruling would spur the criminal probe of the case.

"Something had to be done," Michaels told ABCNews.com. "The main reason this was done was Linda Fisher believed Jason killed Michelle."

Included as evidence in Fisher's lawsuit was an affidavit from Wake County Sheriff's Office investigator R.C. Spivey III, who also testified in court that Michelle Young's beating was among the worst he'd ever seen.

Spivey wrote in the affidavit: "I am familiar with other items of fact developed during this investigation that have not been placed in the public record to support a search warrant and, in my opinion, this evidence ... indicates that Jason Young was the perpetrator."

Murdered Woman's Husband's Web Searches Included 'Anatomy of a Knockout,' Cops Say

Search warrants and affidavits in the case detail damning circumstantial evidence against Jason Young, including alleged extramarital affairs and a bottle of extra-strength adult Tylenol police believe was given to Cassidy to make her drowsy during her mother's murder.

Police also noticed an adult shoe print that they said was from a size 12 Hush Puppies Orbital shoe, which was left in the bloodstains. Police later found through store records that Jason Young had purchased a pair of size 12 Hush Puppies Orbital shoes more than a year before his wife's death, according to investigators' reports.

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Linda Fisher said her daughter became a "total whole person" when she became a mom. "She shined through that," Fisher said.

Records seized from Jason Young's computer turned up search queries on "anatomy of a knockout," "head trauma knockout," "divorce" and "gay bars in New York City," according to police affidavits.

There were also searches for "right posterior parietal occipital region" -- the occipital region is in the back of the head -- and "ischemia," the decrease in the blood supply to parts of the body caused by constriction or obstruction of blood vessels, according to the affidavit.

According to police affidavits dated Feb. 13, 2008, and Nov. 6, 2008, Jason Young checked into a Hampton Inn in Virginia the night before his wife's body was found, and he had allegedly been having an affair. He was seen on hotel security cameras the night before his wife's body was discovered, wearing two different sets of clothing within a few hours, authorities said.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/years-pregnant-moms-murder-cops-expect-arrest/story?id=8998936

[annalyzer]

About time.

[mollybrown]

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6613146/


Husband charged in Wake County mother's slaying
Jason & Michelle Young

Posted: Today at 1:51 p.m.
Updated: 9 minutes ago

Raleigh, N.C. — Jason Young, the husband of Michelle Young, a pregnant Wake County woman killed in her home more than three years ago, was charged Monday in her slaying.

Authorities arrested Jason Young in Brevard, N.C., after a grand jury indicted him on a charge of first-degree murder, Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison said.

[SavannahStar]

Wow. I never followed this case except sporadically checking the boards .... but wow. Long time in coming.

[lyndawitha"y]

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6613146/


Husband charged in Wake County mother's slaying
Jason & Michelle Young

Posted: Today at 1:51 p.m.
Updated: 9 minutes ago

Raleigh, N.C. — Jason Young, the husband of Michelle Young, a pregnant Wake County woman killed in her home more than three years ago, was charged Monday in her slaying.

Authorities arrested Jason Young in Brevard, N.C., after a grand jury indicted him on a charge of first-degree murder, Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison said.

Here's the video..

http://www.wral.com/news/video/6613229/

ETA..latest update..Jason should be appearing in court tomorrow..Tuesday....

http://www.ncwanted.com/ncwanted_home/story/6336335/?d_feature_story=1

[annalyzer]

omg finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !1

[sunstar]

Finally!!! Thank you, grand jury!

:1222423: for Michelle

[Nut44x4]

Jason Young Arrrested and Charged with 1st Degree Murder

http://www.ncwanted.com/asset/2009/12/14/6616438/Jason-Young-Arrested-Web-Feature-510x191.jpg

When Jason Young was asked on camera to comment about his wife's murder, his response was, "You came here for that?"
http://www.ncwanted.com/ncwanted_home/image/6616438/

[Roamer]

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6613146/

Raleigh, N.C. — The husband of Michelle Young, a pregnant Wake County woman killed in her home more than three years ago, was charged Monday in her slaying.

Authorities arrested Jason Young, 35, in Brevard, N.C., after a grand jury indicted him on a charge of first-degree murder, Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison said.


Michelle Young, 29, was five months' pregnant when she was found beaten to death in her home on Nov. 3, 2006. Her then-2-year-old daughter, Cassidy, was found unharmed in the home.

Harrison said Transylvania County and Wake County deputies pulled Jason Young over at about 1:30 p.m., while he was driving and detained him without incident. He arrived at the Wake County jail Monday evening for booking and is expected to make his first court appearance Tuesday.

Jason Young who moved to 41 Mockingbird Lane in Brevard with his daughter after his wife's death, has long been a suspect, and in March, a Wake County judge awarded her family $15.5 million in damages in a wrongful death suit against him.

According to search warrants in the case, he told investigators he was out of town on business when his wife was killed. Michelle Young's sister, Meredith Fisher, found her body after he asked her to go to the couple's home to retrieve a fax.

Testifying during a hearing regarding the wrongful death lawsuit, sheriff's investigator R.C. Spivey called the slaying "particularly brutal."

"(It was) the most severe physical beating I've ever seen someone encounter," he said. "This [was] pretty extreme, a pretty vicious attack that she underwent."

An autopsy found Michelle Young died from blunt force trauma to the head after being hit at least 10 times. The report also suggests that her killer tried to strangle her before beating her to death.

Calls to Michelle Young's mother, Linda Fisher, and sister, Meredith Fisher – who has primary custody of Cassidy Young, were not immediately returned Monday afternoon.

Calls to Jason Young's attorney, Roger Smith Jr., also went unanswered.

Investigators haven't offered a motive for the killing, but in search warrants, investigators have described the couple's marriage as a "volatile" relationship that included violent arguments and infidelity on his part.

Other warrants implied Jason Young might have sneaked out of a Virginia hotel room the night his wife was killed, and others suggested Cassidy Young had been drugged to keep her quiet during the crime.

Prosecutors and investigators said Monday's arrest is a culmination of three years of hard work.

"They've been back to witnesses to try to gather small tidbits of information. They've looked at thousands of pages of documents," Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby said. "The investigators have doggedly pursued this and have done a very good job."

Harrison, who has kept a photo of Michelle Young on his desk since the beginning of the case, said investigators worked hard and that "everything had to be just right" before they could make the arrest.

"Her mother gave (the picture) to me, and it was a reminder every day that we had a case to solve, and we've been working diligently to solve it," he said. "It makes me feel good today to look down at the picture."

"(Jason Young's arrest) is part of a closure for both families, but still there's some ways to go," he continued. "It's sad, in some circumstances, because nobody's a winner in this."


Reporter: Amanda Lamb (http://helpfindthemissing.org/rs/bio/1014364/)
Photographers: Terry Cantrell (http://helpfindthemissing.org/apps/feedback/feedback/?d_id_person=7), Richard Adkins (http://helpfindthemissing.org/apps/feedback/feedback/?d_id_person=4)
Web Editor: Kelly Gardner (http://helpfindthemissing.org/apps/feedback/feedback/?d_id_person=125)

[Jute]

Wow. The little bit that I know about this case, the arrest doesn't surprise me. Kudos to the investigators who worked so hard.

Prosecutors and investigators said Monday's arrest is a culmination of three years of hard work.

"They've been back to witnesses to try to gather small tidbits of information. They've looked at thousands of pages of documents," Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby said. "The investigators have doggedly pursued this and have done a very good job."

Harrison, who has kept a photo of Michelle Young on his desk since the beginning of the case, said investigators worked hard and that "everything had to be just right" before they could make the arrest.

"Her mother gave (the picture) to me, and it was a reminder every day that we had a case to solve, and we've been working diligently to solve it," he said. "It makes me feel good today to look down at the picture."

:sad0119:

[Jute]

From 12-15-2007

I'm still praying that there will be some clue that was overlooked or hasn't been found yet that will solve this case. I feel so sorry for little Cassidy. :(

Your prayers have finally been answered, Sunstar.

[TigressPen]

Another link for information on this case

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7170275

[KittyMom]

OMGosh...look what lying and murdering do to your looks. He looks nothing like the clean-cut, young married father he was when Michelle was alive. He's scary looking now.

[KittyMom]

Jason Young Arrrested and Charged with 1st Degree Murder

http://www.ncwanted.com/asset/2009/12/14/6616438/Jason-Young-Arrested-Web-Feature-510x191.jpg

When Jason Young was asked on camera to comment about his wife's murder, his response was, "You came here for that?"
http://www.ncwanted.com/ncwanted_home/image/6616438/

I just don't understand this thinking. He can't understand outrage at murder and a need for justice?

[hinman]

Jason Young Arrrested and Charged with 1st Degree Murder

http://www.ncwanted.com/asset/2009/12/14/6616438/Jason-Young-Arrested-Web-Feature-510x191.jpg

When Jason Young was asked on camera to comment about his wife's murder, his response was, "You came here for that?"
http://www.ncwanted.com/ncwanted_home/image/6616438/

wow age was not kind to him. I think some of the stress from lying and hiding might of done some damage to Mr. Young.

[sunstar]

From 12-15-2007



Your prayers have finally been answered, Sunstar.

How ironic you found that post from exactly two years ago and today JY was in court in an orange & white striped jail jumpsuit. Yes, a prayer finally answered! MOO

[sunstar]

Jason Young Makes First Court Appearance

Jason Young faced a judge Tuesday for the first time on charges he beat his pregnant wife, Michelle, to death three years ago.

Young was arrested Monday in Brevard, N.C. and charged with first degree murder.

At Tuesday's first appearance, he was granted a public defender for now, and ordered held without bond at the Wake County Jail.

Young entered the courtroom with his standard issue jumpsuit, handcuffed, and longer hair than the last time he was in the public eye.

"His appearance has certainly changed," said Karen McKay, a friend of Michelle's. "He doesn't look as cocky as I've seen him look in the past."

Along with McKay, several other friends and family of Michelle Young were on hand, vowing to see this through till the end.

"We've waited a long time to see something be resolved about this case. At the same time, when you look at all the people involved, it's really quite tragic," said McKay. "So you have mixed emotions, but I'm glad this day has come."

Young's attorney, for the moment, says he understands what lies ahead.

"We met this morning for a very brief time; a brief period first thing this morning and he's doing as good as you can under the circumstances," said Roger Smith, Jr.

A judge could still determine that Young does not qualify for of a public defender.

more at http://wake.mync.com/site/wake/news%7CSports%7CLifestyles/story/45791/jason-young-makes-first-court-appearance

[Jute]

Jason Young Arrrested and Charged with 1st Degree Murder

http://www.ncwanted.com/asset/2009/12/14/6616438/Jason-Young-Arrested-Web-Feature-510x191.jpg

When Jason Young was asked on camera to comment about his wife's murder, his response was, "You came here for that?"
http://www.ncwanted.com/ncwanted_home/image/6616438/

wow age was not kind to him. I think some of the stress from lying and hiding might of done some damage to Mr. Young.

http://wwwcache.wral.com/asset/news/local/2006/11/18/1066008/1066008-1178237775-220x165.jpg

[Jute]

:bump:

Slain mom's husband fails to respond to wrongful death suit

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/4061834/

Jason Young quiet on wrongful death lawsuit
Jason and Michelle Young

Posted: Dec 2, 2008

Raleigh, N.C. — The husband of a slain Wake County mother found dead in her home more than two years ago is not contesting claims that he is responsible for her death.

And by not responding, attorneys for Michelle Young's mother say Jason Young is admitting to allegations that he killed the 29-year-old more than two years ago.

"In layman's terms, it allows us to get a default judgment against Jason Young," said Raleigh attorney Paul Michaels, who represents Michelle Young's mother, Linda Fisher. "It means he admitted the substantive allegations of the complaint."

Jason Young had 30 days to file a response to Fisher's Oct. 29 lawsuit, filed days before the two-year statute of limitations on a wrongful death action was set to expire. No response and no request for an extension had been filed Tuesday morning.

His attorney, Roger Smith Jr., declined to comment.

"It was, I'll admit, somewhat of a surprise to us," said Fisher's other attorney, Jack Michaels. "But then again, the defense of what we think is a pretty large substantial case would have been rather expensive potentially."

Michelle Young was five months' pregnant with her second child when her sister found her lying face down on Nov. 3, 2006, inside her home at 5108 Birchleaf Drive. Her then-2-year-old daughter, Cassidy, was unharmed at her side.

Fisher is seeking two claims, her other attorney, Jack Michaels, said.

"One is to get him adjudicated as the slayer of Michelle, and the second is a wrongful death claim for money damages," he said.

A judge will be asked to rule on the two issues in the coming weeks. If Jason Young is declared his wife's killer, under law, he would not be allowed to collect insurance benefits.

Fisher wants any benefits, as well as punitive and compensatory damages, to go to Cassidy, now 4.

Since his wife's death, Jason Young has moved with his daughter to western North Carolina, where his family lives.

He told Wake County sheriff's investigators that he was out of town on business when his wife was killed. Although authorities have never named him a suspect, search warrants suggest he is the focus in the case.

The Wake County District Attorney's Office and the Wake County Sheriff's Office also declined to comment Tuesday about the civil or criminal cases.

But Sheriff Donnie Harrison said last month the case is an active investigation and something he wants "to bring to some resolution pretty quickly."

Fisher said Tuesday she also hopes for resolution.

"I just agonize over it, you know?" she said. "And I just want some resolve. My daughter needs justice, and this is my first step."


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His arrest certainly makes this article even more powerful.

[Bayou Lass]

Wow....I just saw this and finally, finally justice for Michelle. I suspected that he murdered her all along, his refusing to cooperate with the LE regarding her murder was what led me to believe that he did it.

[sunstar]

Wow....I just saw this and finally, finally justice for Michelle. I suspected that he murdered her all along, his refusing to cooperate with the LE regarding her murder was what led me to believe that he did it.

My suspicion started when he asked Meredith to go over to the house ~ so it would be her finding Michelle's body. Then there was the dog who probably would've attacked a stranger inside the house. And then of course, as you said, just being totally uncooperative with LE. MOO

[Oceanblueeyes]

My suspicion started when he asked Meredith to go over to the house ~ so it would be her finding Michelle's body. Then there was the dog who probably would've attacked a stranger inside the house. And then of course, as you said, just being totally uncooperative with LE. MOO

Yep, he dug his hole and LE covered him up finally.

I hope it will not take as long with the Susan Powell case even though her body may never be found.

When a wife or husband obtains a lawyer and refuses to give vital information then something definitely is amiss. Like my hubby said if I was missing or had been found murdered he would already have a cot in the lead detective's office wanting to know every minute what they were doing to find his wife or find the scumbag who had killed me.

Thank goodness there are no time limitations on murder.

imo