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Through his lawyers Young has repeatedly declined to speak with authorities (he also declined to comment for this article). Since the murder police say they have learned the Youngs were having financial difficulties. A source close to the couple told People that Michelle – who had planned to cut back on her hours as a senior financial specialist for a power company once her new son was born – was covered by a $1 million insurance policy that her husband took out three months before her murder and that made him the beneficiary. So far, police have not named Young a suspect, and those who know him defend him as a kind-hearted husband and father. "Jason dearly loved Michelle," says Spencer Smith, who lived down the street from where Jason grew up in Brevard, N.C. "He was looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to the son that was going to be born. This is a double loss for him."
Still, there are several matters police would like to discuss with him. Why were there no signs of forced entry in the Youngs' two-story, redbrick home on four wooded acres in Raleigh's upscale Enchanted Oaks subdivision? How to explain the two drops of what appeared to be blood on the Youngs' 2004 Ford Explorer? (Police won a court order to get fingerprints and DNA samples from Young, but at press time no test results were available.) Why did Young ask his wife's sister to retrieve a document from their home on the afternoon of Nov. 3, when the body was found, if he was due back that night?
