Michelle and Jason Young lived in a suburb outside of Raleigh, North Carolina. They had a two-year-old daughter named Cassidy and Michelle was five months pregnant with their second child. By all accounts, theirs was not a happy marriage. Jason had several affairs and spent a lot of time on the road for business.

On the morning of November 3, 2006, Jason was out of town. He had checked into a Hampton Inn in Huntsville, Virginia 170 miles from Raleigh the night before. At nine that morning, he left a voicemail for Michelle's younger sister, Meredith Fisher, asking her to stop by his house and retrieve some papers for him. When Meredith arrived at the Young’s home, she found Michelle Young brutally murdered in the master bedroom. Little Cassidy was left unharmed.

It didn’t take long for Jason to become the primary suspect in his wife’s murder.  Investigators were able to poke holes in his alibi and put together a strong circumstantial case.  Join us at the quiet end today for His Alibi: The Murder of Michelle Young. This is a tragic story of a young, pregnant mother who was beaten to death in her own home.  Her husband would end up getting two trials but not everyone would be satisfied with the outcome.

Read "Absence of Evidence: An Examination of the Michelle Young Murder Case" by Lynne Blanchard

Read "Murder on Birchleaf Drive: The True Story of the Michelle Young Murder Case" by Steven B. Epstein

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