Michelle Young, a 29-year old woman was found dead, beaten, in her home in a Raleigh, North Carolina suburb in 2006. Her husband Jason was 170 miles away on a business trip. And Michelle's friends and family insisted she had no enemies. So who killed her? It took more than five years before her killer was convicted.
Keith Morrison reports Silent Witness this Friday, March 30th, at 10pm/9c on Dateline NBC.


I am sorry but her former best friend Michelle Money who was having the affair with her husband while she was pregnant is a horrible person. It's bad enough to sleep with your best friend's husband, but to do this when she is pregnant is an all time low. To then be smiling on the witness stand while recalling this affair knowing that your "best friend" was brutally murdered by the same man you were cheating with shows how heartless you are. What a shame that she ever came into this woman's life. Who needs friends when people like this exist. Her affair probably had some influence on the fact that tje husband brutally murdered his wife. Amazing to see the other woman who had a tryst with the husband on the witness stand hysterical even though she hardly knew his wife and then compare that to the behavior of the wife's best friend who was recalling her affair with him with smiles despite the fact that her friend is dead! Zero respect!
It's not clear whether msnbc is going to upload this episode, but people who admire the reporting on the show must deal with the same uncertainty each week. If producers are not going to allow people to view the show, they shouldn't upload "previews." It's clear that the previews keep bringing people who want to see an episode back to the site, over and over, wasting time and watching advertisements. The definition of fraud is: wanting to obtain something --in this case, our time-- and so making a promise you have no intention of keeping, ie, posting "previews" for a show you know in advance you won't upload for copyright reasons. Please stop this manipulation of people who admire the network.
He sends his sister in law to his house. Why? What is more likely the reason? He, who has an affair with his wife's friend while his wife is pregnant, cares so much about his wife that he sends his sister in law to help him buy surprise gift for his wife. Hmmmm. OR... He kills his wife and since he has to be hundred miles away from the body for the alibi, he send his sister in law to the house since his little daughter is in the house all alone with the dead mom. He never once asks the cops as to who might have killed his wife. He has $4 million life insurance on her. His shoe print on the pillow. The brutal beating that only could be personal. The evidence goes on and on. Still, 8 of the 12 juries thinks he is innocent? Are you kidding me? The prosecutor should be barred for bringing the guy's ex-fiancee to testify against him. Is there any ex-fiancee who doesn't hate their former fiancee? Doesn't the lawyer know something like that infuriates the jury for insulting their intelligence? Nevertheless, how could they think he is innocent? Are most Virginians (like the 8 juries and the woman prosecutor) so stupid?
Thank you for providing Internet users with Keith Morrison's excellent report. (Perhaps it can be stated on the site, when an episode is previewed, that viewers should be sure to watch it live if it cannot be posted for copyright reasons.) I wonder why officials or child-care experts in the case never spoke to Cassidy, who had named one doll "the mommy doll" what she named the other doll. And given that there was another bloody footprint in a different shoe size, and two witnesses who saw a woman parked out front of the driveway in the early morning hours, why no one addressed the possibility of murder for hire, or an accomplice.