Suit claims husband killed Michelle Young

RALEIGH -- The mother of Michelle Young, a pregnant Wake County woman killed two years ago in her home, is asking a court to declare that her daughter's husband murdered her.

In a suit filed in Wake Superior Court, Linda Lee Fisher seeks a court finding that Jason Young was his wife's killer or an accessory to her murder.

Fisher also asks the court to bar Young from receiving his wife's insurance benefits or other assets from her estate.

She seeks at least $10,000 from Young to compensate for her daughter's death -- the standard minimum threshold for lawsuits in Superior Court.

Fisher filed the suit last week, but Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens ordered it kept from public view until Jason Young had been served a copy. The suit was unsealed this afternoon.

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

Deputies found tiny footprints in her blood left by her 2-year-old daughter, along with bloody footprints from two types of shoes her husband owned.

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.

Sheriff Donnie Harrison said last week there were no new suspects in the case, but he hoped to make an arrest "in the near future."

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