911 Recording Released in Woman's Killing

Monday, November 06, 2006

(11/06/06 -- RALEIGH) (WTVD) -- Wake County officials have released a recording of the 911 call a woman made after discovering her dead sister.

The body of Michelle Marie Young, 29, was found Friday inside her house off Birchleaf Drive, which is just off Penny Road near Lake Wheeler. Authorities are investigating it as a homicide.

Young's sister, Meredith Fisher, showed up at the house Friday to pick up a fax for her brother-in-law, investigators said. Fisher said she expected her pregnant sister to be at work. That's when she discovered the body and called 911. She told dispatchers there was "blood everywhere."

"I just came here on a fluke," Fisher told the 911 dispatcher. "I usually don't come here during the day. She shouldn't be at home. She should be at work."

She said the house looked out of order.

"This place does not look like what it normally looks like," Fisher said in the recording. "There's blood in the bed."

Young apparently was murdered some time late Thursday night or early Friday morning. Fisher discovered Young's 2-year-old daughter with the woman's body. Fisher discovered small bloody footprints around the house. The toddler was running around the house for 12 or more hours.

Harrison said Sunday that Young was hit with something. Without revealing too many details, the sheriff said the crime was not random.

The sheriff said Young's husband, Jason, left town on business some time Thursday and was at his mother's house in the mountain town of Brevard when he got the call that his pregnant wife had been killed. The man is back in town. He and his daughter apparently are staying with relatives.

A relative says investigators have confiscated Jason Young's vehicle and everything in it.

Investigators would like to hear from anyone who may have gone by the murder scene early Friday morning.

"It's very important to us if we can get any type evidence, whether it looks like it's ordinary or not," Harrison said. "We just need to know if there was any movement between 12 a.m. and 6 a.m."

If you have any information, you can contact the Wake County Sheriff's Office.

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