Re: UPDATE / Investigators thought Michelle Young's daughter was medicated


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On Dec 5, 10:45 am, "tiny dancer" <tinydan...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Investigators thought Michelle Young's daughter was medicated

Posted: Today at 9:36 a.m.
Updated: 12 minutes ago

Raleigh, N.C. - Under the suspicion that Michelle Young's killer tried to
medicate the 29-year-old's young daughter to keep her from possibly
interfering with the slaying of her mother, Wake County sheriff's
investigators asked the court for a search warrant to obtain a DNA sample
from the child, according to a search warrant unsealed Friday, more than a
year after it was carried out.

According to an affidavit for a July 25, 2007, warrant, detectives found a
bottle of Extra Strength Tylenol/Adult Rapid Blast Liquid and a medicine
dropper that contained liquid residue on Cassidy Young's dresser. They
believe it was used to medicate the child with the belief that it would
have
made her drowsy.

Michelle Young, was found beaten to death on the floor inside the couple's
bedroom on Nov. 3, 2006. The 29-year-old was five months' pregnant with
her
second child. Cassidy was found under the sheets on Michelle Young's bed,
according to the affidavit.

A judge sealed the warrant, as well as three others, in June after
prosecutors argued that by making them public, it could affect detectives'
investigation.

In another warrant for Michelle Young's sport utility vehicle,
investigators
said that despite bloody footprints on the floor in the child's bathroom,
Cassidy's feet were clean and that there were no obvious signs of blood on
the side of the bed where she was found. According to the affidavit, they
believed it was possible that she had been carried from one room to the
other.

A set of keys, thought to be Michelle Youngs, on the kitchen counter in
the
home also led authorities to question if the SUV could have been used to
carry Cassidy from the home.

"Due to the situation with the child's bloodied footprints versus the
clean
condition of the child's feet when found; the confusion over the keys to
the
decedent's vehicle and how they came to be placed on the kitchen counter .
it is believed that the 2000 silver Lexus RX 300 could have been used to
transport the child from the scene," the affidavit states.

Investigators also asked for permission to obtain cell phone records from
Jason Young's provider, saying their investigation found he had engaged in
detailed e-mail conversations with witnesses and that because he was "an
avid cell phone text message sender and receiver," he might have talked
with
witnesses over text messaging.

The fourth warrant was for his Yahoo! e-mail account, which was also the
subject of a Dec. 2, 2008, search warrant returned earlier this week.

In supporting their request for the Dec. 2 warrant, detectives said they
found a number of Internet searches for terms such as "head trauma
knockout"
and "anatomy of a knockout" on another computer that belonged to him.

Investigators also described e-mail exchanges Jason Young had with his
sister about the case, as well as with a Florida woman with whom
investigators say he was having an extramarital relationship.

Although search warrants indicate he is a focus of their investigation,
authorities have not called Jason Young a suspect.

He told investigators he was out of town on business when his wife died,
but
has generally been uncooperative with investigators. He spoke to them once
and, under a court order, gave DNA samples.
He has since moved to Western North Carolina, where his family lives.

Earlier this week, he failed to meet the deadline to contest claims in a
lawsuit by Michelle Young's mother, Linda Fisher, that he was responsible
for his wife's death.

Her attorneys have said that by not responding, he is essentially
admitting
to the allegations. They will ask a Wake County District Court judge in
the
coming weeks to declare him his wife's slayer, they said.

His attorney, Roger Smith Jr., has declined to comment on the
lawsuit.Under
the suspicion that Michelle Young's killer tried to medicate the
29-year-old's
young daughter to keep her from possibly interfering with the slaying of
her
mother, Wake County sheriff's investigators asked the court for a search
warrant to obtain a DNA sample from the child, according to a search
warrant
unsealed Friday, more than a year after it was carried out.

According to an affidavit for a July 25, 2007, warrant, detectives found a
bottle of Extra Strength Tylenol/Adult Rapid Blast Liquid and a medicine
dropper that contained liquid residue on Cassidy Young's dresser. They
believe it was used to medicate the child with the belief that it would
have
made her drowsy.

Michelle Young, was found beaten to death inside the couple's bedroom on
Nov. 3, 2006. The 29-year-old was five months' pregnant with her second
child. Cassidy was found under the sheets on Michelle Young's bed,
according
to the affidavit.

In a search warrant returned earlier this week, investigators requested
access to a Yahoo! e-mail account registered to Jason Young, and last
month,
they returned a search warrant to retrieve data off a computer he used at
his former employer.

In supporting their request for those warrants, detectives said they found
a
number of Internet searches for terms such as "head trauma knockout" and
"anatomy of a knockout" on another computer that belonged to him.

Investigators also described e-mail exchanges Jason Young had with his
sister about the case, as well as with a Florida woman with whom
investigators say he was having an extramarital relationship.

Although search warrants indicate he is a focus of their investigation,
authorities have not called Jason Young a suspect.

He told investigators he was out of town on business when his wife died,
but
has generally been uncooperative with investigators. He spoke to them once
and, under a court order, gave DNA samples.

He has since moved to Western North Carolina, where his family lives.

Earlier this week, he failed to meet the deadline to contest claims in a
lawsuit by Michelle Young's mother, Linda Fisher, that he was responsible
for his wife's death.

Her attorneys have said that by not responding, he is essentially
admitting
to the allegations. They will ask a Wake County District Court judge in
the
coming weeks to declare him his wife's slayer, they said.

His attorney, Roger Smith Jr., has declined to comment on the lawsuit.

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/4081439/

The first paragraph of this report is odd. What connection could
there be betweeen over the counter medications a year ago and the
results of a DNA test now? I suspect the reporter who wrote this was
clueless as to what the issues requiring a warrant really are.

Mick

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I'm assuming this is a recently released search warrant, and most likely
they wanted the child's DNA to test it against the recovered medicine
dropper. If the dropper was used to medicate the child, and put into her
mouth, then it should have her, the child's, DNA on the dropper.


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