To view our videos, you need to
enable JavaScript. Learn how.
install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now.

Then come back here and refresh the page.

RALEIGH – More emotional testimony Friday in the retrial for Jason Young , the Raleigh man accused of killing his pregnant wife Michelle more than five years ago.

The jury heard from Michelle's mother, who described the horror of finding out her daughter was dead.

Week one of Young's second trial was full of emotional testimony.

“She actually said Michelle was D-E-A-D because she didn't want to say that she was dead because Cassidy was sitting there with her,” said Linda Fisher, Michelle's mother.

Michelle Young's daughter Cassidy was only a toddler at the time of her mother's death. Police believe the young girl was in the house when her mother – who was five-months pregnant at the time – was brutally beaten.

On Friday, friends and family of Michelle and Jason Young discussed  intimate details of the couple's troubled relationship. They read excerpts from emails sent from Jason to Michelle.

“I'm pregnant, and Jason said he wants me to abort the baby or he will resent me and the baby for the rest of our lives,” said Jennifer Flowers, friend of Michelle. “I'm just telling you our marriage has seen better days and I don't see it trending up.”

They said the fighting was so intense, Michelle went to a counselor, who said Michelle cried through their one and only session.

“This was about her and my assessment of the situation was that she was being verbally abused,” said counselor Jane Kimball. “She said the communication was very bad. She said it had gotten to the point where they could not talk at all – they were actually communicating through email.”

Young has testified he was out of town at a hotel in Virginia when Michelle was murdered in their Wake County home. Testimony will continue next week.

This trial could go on for up to six weeks.