George Young III, a dedicated family man.
He loved his family, talked about his sons all the time,
talked about his marriage.
WOMAN 1: 911, what's your emergency?
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Married to Tia for 22 years
and still feeling the love.
All I've ever heard from George
was how much he loved his wife.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: But Tia was cheating.
It would come out later that there
was a lot of text messaging back and forth,
sexually suggestive text messages and funny memes.
Talking about cheating on your husband.
WOMAN 2: I just heard a gunshot.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: As motives for murder go,
it's a classic, right?
Now, let's add guns to the story.
We did a lot of executive protection
with high-end clients, those were armed details.
We do a lot of celebrity protection, Beyoncé, Usher.
And when they require firearms, then we do firearms.
An affair, weapons, and a life insurance policy.
Does the devoted husband, George Young,
know the danger he is in?
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Half of women and more than a few men
end up being murdered by their partners.
I'm Michelle Trachtenberg and this is "Meet Marry Murder"
with a real-life story of Tia and George
Young who got married in South Carolina in 1995.
They wanted someplace safe to raise their three sons.
Like Buford, a quiet Atlanta suburb.
Marcelo Bump has the same idea.
He becomes the Young's neighbor.
It's a wholesome fee.
It's family oriented and there's a lot of restaurants
where a lot of people, you know, that's
what they do Friday night.
They go to the same restaurant or everybody,
you know, sees each other in the grocery store and it's like,
hey, you know, and everybody's talking.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: It's a great fit for the Youngs,
a solid American Family of mom, dad, and three growing boys.
There were more of homebodies, they always stayed inside,
didn't do anything except for, you know, occasionally
cooking out in the backyard.
And I yell over, let me know when it's ready.
I couldn't tell you one time did
he shared with me that there was a problem of anything.
There was never any fighting or anything
like that and never any, gossip, neighborhood gossip, about them
in any way.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: George is in the security
business and boy, does he put in the hours
to bring home the bacon.
He worked from his own company,
Massive, working for me part time,
and also working for Ackerman Security.
So the guy's holding down three layers of responsibility.
And guess what?
He's knocking them all out of the park.
He's not behind in anything.
He's giving everything that he had.
Very good at providing for his family,
but he didn't have the time to spend at home
that I'm sure he wished he did.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Not that Tia seems to mind.
Tia was over the house with a few other family
and I showed up later.
And she said, hey, did you know my husband
does the same thing as you do?
She said, I'm me give you his number,
you call him, and see what he can do.
At that time, George and I connected.
And from the first time I met him, when he walked in
our office with that huge, bright smile, and 6' 6" height,
he definitely was very, very convincing.
George seemed like the kind of person who just wants
to believe the best in people.
And I think he must have felt like perhaps on times when he
was more down on his luck, he has been helped by nice people
in his life, and he wanted to be that person for others
and return the favor.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: How far would
you go to help out a friend?
Early 2017, George goes above and beyond,
like way above and beyond for an old friend from back home.
George had approached me and said,
there's a guy who he knew from South Carolina.
And he's here and he's looking for a job.
His name was Tim Lee.
And Tim had been down on his luck lately.
He'd lost his jobs.
He was living out of hotels.
Really just not doing well at all.
And so George said, well look, we're doing quite fine,
so come live with us.
So he opened his home to him.
He gave him a job.
Tim was living in the Young home rent free.
George brought him up to help him get on his feet.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: George goes all out for Tim,
but his friend Rob's a bit more skeptical.
Can this guy really be trusted?
When I first met Tim he was, by far, not George.
He was withdrawn, very quiet, looking around a lot.
I noticed as he's working he didn't have a lot
of the skill set to do the job.
But George was there covering everything.
I think perhaps he was overly trusting,
but not in a naive way.
I think he just truly wanted to believe
the best in everyone, especially a friend
who he thought that he knew.
I had no clue that Tim was living with George.
And I can believe why George wouldn't share that with me.
Because if I ever heard that, I would
have definitely had my opinion to why
I thought that was a bad idea.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Is it just me
or is there something weird about this whole situation?
In September 2017, George has bigger things to worry about.
Somehow Tia loses her job.
George is now the only person standing
between the Young family and serious money troubles.
So George says, don't worry about it, Tia, we're fine.
And he just takes on more hours to support the family.
I knew that he would get home late.
He was always parked out front in the road.
You can pretty much hear him when
he would get home from work.
Anyone looking from outside in, you could never
have imagined that there was a problem of the magnitude that
was about to happen.
You did not have a clue about that.
You knew he was proud of that any other husband.
You know, put in the time in a job,
taking care of your family, and then
trying to balance that with being there
for your wife and your kids.
I think George must have been under a terrible amount
of stress knowing that he was basically supposed to be
the savior for his entire family and now
also this long-time friend.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: But we all know a guy like George,
don't we?
He isn't taking time for anyone.
Meanwhile, can we guess what out-of-work Tia is doing?
You got it.
Getting to know Tim.
They are continuing to refer to each other
as cousins or sister and brother.
It's pretty clear, as you can see later on from their phone
messages, flirty phone messages talking
about their relationship, that it is way beyond fraternal.
It's not the sister-brother.
This is the ultimate betrayal because Tim was given
a second chance at life, and yet he
was sleeping with George's wife under his very nose,
under his roof, while he was working
hard to provide for the family.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: It's 2017, 22 years since George
and Tia young tied the knot.
And while George was away working,
his wife and Tim are working up a sweat together.
And working out a plan.
I was actually out with some friends
and I got a call from my daughter who was babysitting.
We had a four-month-old baby.
I got a call that she had heard a gunshot very close
and almost sounded like it was inside the house.
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Around half of Georgian's own a gun, but not George Young.
He doesn't even carry one at work.
We did a lot of executive protection
with high-end clients.
Those were armed details.
We do a lot of celebrity protection, Beyoncé, Usher.
And and when they require firearms then we do firearms.
But a lot of times a lot of it was unarmed.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: George isn't exactly a natural when
it comes to handling weapons.
George and I talked about guns.
And he always would ask, hey, am I going to get trained?
Are you going to train me?
One day at the office, I took my firearm
so George could hold it.
I made sure removed the clip, everything, it was clean.
Back, showed him out, and I unlocked
it back, so he could hold it.
So George held the gun so bad that it scared
me that he had it, that maybe I didn't
take out all the bullets.
I quickly took the gun back.
I said, George, we'll get a day to train.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: That day never came around,
and I'm guessing that's about to become relevant.
Most people would think that because it's
security and protection that it comes
with a certain level of risk.
And the reality, it's a very low risk.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: So November 16, 2017,
George is unarmed.
It's a big night for Strickland Security
and, as always, George Young is on point.
We had an executive detail, a pretty big one.
It was at Macy's Lenox Square in Buckhead.
The artist was Lil Yachty, great event, big crowd,
everyone was very happy.
George returns home late at night, between 11:23 and 11:25.
He gets out of his vehicle, puts his key
in the lock of the front door, and just
as he's turning it, boom!
Out of nowhere, two gunshots.
One to the chest.
One to the face.
He was shot from the side.
He was ambushed.
He never saw the shooter coming.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: What is going on?
This is Montauk Hill, not somewhere you
expect to hear gunfire.
I was actually out with some friends and I got a call
from my daughter who was babysitting,
we had a four-month-old baby.
I got a call that she had heard a gunshot very close,
it almost sounded like it was inside the house.
She was scared.
Told her to run upstairs and check on the baby
to make sure somebody didn't shoot a gun from outside
and come into the house.
And told her to call 911
WOMAN 1: 911, what's your emergency?
Tia says she was asleep when all of a sudden
she heard this noise.
And she was afraid.
She didn't know what was going on.
About six minutes after the shots were fired,
Tia called 911
TIA YOUNG: I just heard a gunshot.
And said she believes her husband
had been shot but she didn't want to go downstairs
because she was squeamish and she didn't want
to see her husband like that.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Does that sound right?
We have our first red flag.
I think it is a ridiculous alibi that a loving
and doting wife would not go and check
on your husband's dead body.
I don't care how squeamish you feel,
how much you don't like blood.
This is the blood of the love of your life.
And anybody would, in that particular situation,
would not be thinking about their squeamishness
and would just be running out there to see
what happened to their husband.
George dies at the scene.
On the 911 call, Tia explains that Timothy is her brother.
And that after hearing the shots, he got his shotgun
and went outside to investigate.
And that's where Timmy found George dead.
When Tia calls 911, a couple of things stick out.
One is she's referring to Tim as her brother
and it's pretty apparent that's not the case.
And the other thing is she tells them,
please, when you arrive don't bring the lights and sirens.
I really would rather not wake my children.
Who does that?
Who in a situation, your husband is murdered
and you don't want the police to turn on their--
get them over here as soon as they can.
The quicker they can collect evidence, ,
the quicker they can get camera, possible camera footage,
whatever it takes, do it.
But no, she doesn't want them to wake up the kids.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: But here's something
else that doesn't smell right.
The boys won't wake up until long
after the cops have arrived.
How do you figure that one?
It is speculated that he may have given them
medication to keep them asleep so they wouldn't
hear what was going on.
My guess is that she didn't want them
to wake up and discover what was going on and thwart her plans.
If a woman is going to kill her husband,
she's probably not a good mother either.
So I imagine it wasn't to save them from any trauma,
it was to save her from being caught.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Here's what
first responders find when they approach the Young family home.
A 43-year-old man, George Young, dead on the front steps.
No gunman to be seen.
Are we looking at a robbery here?
The house and yard are taped off with crime scene tape,
a pretty rare sight in this cute,
family friendly neighborhood.
There was cops and news reporters everywhere.
You couldn't even-- it was a half mile from the beginning
of the neighborhood to my house, and I pretty much
had to walk it because they had everything,
there was just cars everywhere.
Once all the kids were checked on, everything was fine,
I could actually see George laying
on the sidewalk of his doorway.
When detectives arrived on scene,
they realized, pretty quickly realized,
that this was not a robbery.
Everything of value that George had was
still present, his wallet, his iPad, his keys, cell phone.
Anything of value was still there so robbery
was probably not the motive.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: That's one motive struck off the list.
So what are investigators looking for right
now at the Young family home?
They're asking if the clues at the scene
match what they're being told about the shooting.
It's not necessarily just the firearms evidence
that you collect.
It's the firearms evidence that's missing.
If there is a shell casing missing,
when we know there should be two and there's only one present,
then that suggests that someone moved the first shell casing.
Those are all very important points because a person may
have just missed the first shell casing
and found the second one.
Or, in their haste, they only collected one.
It's as if the scene has been cleaned up.
But if this just happened as they they're describing it,
it doesn't add up.
More and more things are not adding up.
Investigators were a little discouraged
to find out that there was security
surveillance at the home, but the particular camera
was not operable.
That camera was disconnected, so police naturally
get suspicious about that.
But as it turns out, George had just been
too busy helping his customers.
And when talking to George's son, George's son
explained that George had talked about fixing the camera
but never got around to doing so.
It seemed that he was putting up security and making
sure cameras were working everywhere else
but neglected his own.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Can you imagine
how frustrated detectives are right now?
Maybe the family can tell them more.
Tia start throwing out things to detectives.
And maybe it was gang initiation or gang violence.
Maybe it was George's work with a rapper.
Anything that she could do to kind of give them a clue
of what may have happened.
She was asking me, hey, what happened?
What happened today?
What happened at the job?
What happened at the detail?
And you know, I'm, everything, and this is over the phone.
And I'm saying, everything was fine, Tia.
Everything was fine.
George was not in harm's way.
I don't know what's going on.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Next on detectives' radars
is Tim Lee, the guy who's at home with Tia
when George is shot.
He seems like a credible witness.
No reason not to trust him.
Till a few hours later, when Rod Strickland and his wife
get to the scene, and cops realize
Tim is not who he says he is.
Eventually, one of the detectives showed up
and said, well, who are you guys?
And I explained to him who we were
and we asked him what happened.
He said, well, you know, someone shot him
as he put his key in the door.
So we were just questions, all kind of questions for him.
And he said, yeah, well we just talked to Tia and her brother.
And we were whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Wait a minute.
Tia and her brother?
She doesn't have a brother.
And the detective said, really?
She said this person over there is her brother.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Riddle me this, everyone.
Why on Earth is Tia Young pretending to cops
that Tim Lee is her brother?
When it got to day three, I realized there's
something going on here.
There is definitely something going on between Tia and Tim.
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MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Can you imagine
George's family getting the news out of the blue
that he's been killed?
His sister, Ivy Barnhill, lives six hours away in Myrtle Beach.
She calls Tia right away, and immediately she smells a rat.
Call it sisterly instinct.
George's your sister Ivy called
after she heard of the incident, Tia,
but Timmy answered Tia's phone.
And she didn't know that someone had been living with them
and she didn't think that there was
a man that would be comfortable enough to answer their phones.
Ivy goes to the home.
She wants to know what has happened
and how can this be true.
Could her brother really be dead?
Ivy he gets to the house and she finds Tia and Tim in a bedroom,
close together, which is odd.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Tim hanging
around doesn't seem right.
It's kind of giving everyone a bad feeling.
Whole family didn't know anything, you know,
what was going on except for them two.
So I just felt like, even when I was over there bringing stuff
over for the kids and hanging out with the little one,
it just seemed very, like, put on.
Like a show was being put on.
The other thing that concerned Ivy was that Tia didn't
seem to show a lot of emotion.
She appeared maybe to be upset, but there were no tears.
And when she greeted Ivy she just acted as if though it
was a regular visit.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: So let's get the straight.
Tia's husband has been murdered.
The father of her three kids.
And she can't squeeze out a tear or two?
Walked inside.
Tia met us all.
She was, she seemed a bit more cordial than anything else.
Hey!
Hey, guys.
You want something to drink?
No, no, no one wants anything to drink.
Tia, what happened?
What happened?
So then she starts talking but then the phone rings.
So somehow she gets on the phone and now
she's talking to the donor group about his parts, his body
parts.
And they're talking about, and we're
all there listening to her.
And she's very OK on the phone.
His eyes, his this, his that.
OK, you're going to--
OK.
And in my mind I'm going, is this what happens?
How are you capable of doing this?
I think the way people grieve is completely different
all across the spectrum.
But there are some things that just don't make a lot of sense.
So if someone is appearing to be nonchalant about someone being
murdered, it's not necessarily indicative of them
being suspicious.
But if they're nonchalant and in the bedroom with another man,
that kind of adds to the suspicion.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: And when she talks to Rob,
Tia is messing up all over the place.
The more she kept talking, the more pieces
she would give, including up to what happened that night.
It would change a bit regarding where Tim was.
First Tim was downstairs, but then Tim was upstairs.
And the more pieces I'm getting here I'm saying to myself,
I think I'm reaching a part where
I need to talk to the police.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: It's no secret
that when there's a murder at home
there's a big chance the victim's
other half is involved.
We know it.
The detectives know it.
So two days after George was shot,
the cops have a lot more questions
for Tia Young and the guy she keeps calling her brother.
During their interviews, both seem to change
their stories quite a bit.
There are inconsistencies between the two stories.
And as they change, it's obvious that they can't
keep their stories straight.
On the 911 call, Tia tells the police dispatchers
that she heard what she thought may
have even been firecrackers.
And on that same call, you can hear
Lee coming into the room saying that George had been shot.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Sitting in front of cops on November
18, Tia and Tim are each telling a different version
of the story.
Guys, shouldn't you have worked this stuff out?
The story that Timmy told investigators is that he heard
gunshots, he grabbed his gun, he went out to investigate,
and came back inside and told Tia.
Whereas Tia's saying she heard the noise,
and she went looking for him and said, did you hear that?
So obviously the stories are inconsistent.
The cops are thinking something's up here.
But there's not enough to determine
what exactly happened here.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: The cops are suspicious,
but what evidence do they really have?
A lot of questions, not many answers.
Are Tia and Tim responsible for Georgia's death?
Why would they kill him?
Maybe Mrs. Young's next move will give something away.
How am I going to do it by myself?
Everybody loved George.
She goes on the television news and she plays her role.
She is sobbing.
She is shocked and horrified.
She is the grieving widow.
There is nothing uncommon about people
making appeals to the media or to the public for finding
someone who committed a crime.
In fact, it's often helpful.
But for an investigator, the focus is now on the person
who's making the appeal.
How am I going to do it by myself?
Everybody loved George.
I think on the one hand, Tia was
somebody who was trying to cover her tracks and have an alibi.
So it makes sense that she might express to family and friends
how sad she was to have lost her husband.
But to go on TV and put this public persona out there
and basically become a mini celebrity
and her community is a completely other thing.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Dr. Judy Ho, a forensic psychologist,
knows how people like Tia's mind works.
And she's got a tip for Gwinnett County police.
What it shows me about Tia is that she
was somebody who desired not only fortune but fame.
I think she was liking all of the attention
that she was getting from the tragedy.
And she enjoyed playing this role of the doting
wife and wonderful mother.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Now, I know actors.
And believe me, Tia's not winning any Oscars here.
And when the grieving widow act gets too much for her,
George's friends start thinking maybe his murder
was all about the Benjamins.
The day of the murder we were there most of the day.
It was getting pretty late.
And I said hey, Tia, the wife and I,
we're going to have to take off.
We'll get some change of clothes,
we're going to come back.
And she said, before you go, can you help
me find the insurance policy?
This is not normal widow behavior.
I would imagine that the widow of someone who
was taken so tragically, this would
be the last thing on her mind.
In fact, someone might have to remind her that there's a will.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Now Rob doesn't rush to the cops,
but there's nothing like a grieving
sister to get things done.
Ivy told investigators that there was a life insurance
policy and Tia was the sole beneficiary
of that life insurance policy.
Once detectives found out about the life insurance policy,
they discovered that within 24 hours
Tia had attempted to cash in on that policy.
A life insurance policy on George
worth a million dollars, and Tia is the sole beneficiary.
And she started just talking about the money
and what the money was going to do.
And that didn't sit right with me.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: OK.
Is it just me or is Tia's behavior looking very shady?
Detectives know something is off,
but there is nothing to pin on her.
Until a witness comes forward and drops a bombshell
into the investigation.
The evidence was provided by me and my oldest daughter.
When she was on the phone with 911,
she was looking outside to see if she could see anything.
And actually saw a male figure run outside,
and run underneath George's truck,
and do something, and then run back into the house.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Who's the only man in the house
at the time of George's murder?
That's right, it's Tim Lee.
When police questioned Tim and they say, look,
the neighbor saw you out there.
Said you ran outside right after the shooting.
You grabbed something from under George's vehicle.
What were you getting, Tim?
And Tim says, oh yes, well yes.
I did, I had a GPS tracker, that George
had asked me to put a GPS tracker on his vehicle
to keep him safe.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: I think we can all take a guess
at why cheating Tim might want to track
Tia's husband's whereabouts.
We found out later that there was a GPS locator
on George's truck so that they could figure
out when he was coming home.
Timmy's explanation for the GPS tracker
was an outlandish that George asked
him to put the tracking device on his vehicle
for his, George's, safety.
Timmy me claimed that George was a gunrunner
and that he didn't want his family or friends
and know that.
So he removed the GPS tracker so no one would discover this.
Your friend has just been gunned down on his porch.
And you jump over the bloody body,
and your first thought is, I need to get
the GPS tracker off the truck.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: I mean this story
is a little unlikely.
I had a talk with Tim, I said, Tim, what's going on?
The police interviewed you.
He says, yeah He says, I know you're not
going to believe me when I tell you this but
George was a gun runner.
I'm fighting everything in my body
not to grab him by the throat and throw him to the ground.
But I know that's the worst thing
I can do for a lot of reasons.
What I have to do is listen.
I said, really?
Yes.
George was gun running.
George was moving guns from Florida to Georgia.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Detectives
aren't buying it either.
Police are still having trouble getting enough evidence
to bring charges.
But they are pretty convinced that this Tim and this Tia,
they're behind this murder.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: The detectives' case is looking
stronger and stronger, but the puzzle is still
missing a couple of pieces.
Such as what exactly is going on between the two prime suspects?
If they're going to bring charges,
they need proof of what Tia is doing
behind her husband's back.
They provide evidence from cell phones, conversations
that the two have had.
And they corner them on this relationship.
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MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Five months after the shooting,
detectives have bagged some circumstantial evidence
and a lot of theories.
They still can't prove who killed George.
Then forensic technicians get around
to looking at the contents of Tim and Tia's cell phones
and it makes for very racy reading.
Investigators now have possession of text messages,
email messages, and it shows a very
intimate and sexual relationship between Tia and Timmy.
Sexually suggestive text messages and funny memes,
talking about cheating on your husband
and killing your husband.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: At Gwinnett PD,
there's a fascinating picture developing.
Not only of Tia and Tim's motive, but also something
that looks like premeditation.
In some ways, the joking around
was probably a way that they tested
that water with one another.
Well, are you willing to do this?
Because if you are, I am.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Time to haul the lovebirds
back in for a deep and meaningful
conversation with the cops.
Tia finally breaks.
And she admits to police that, yeah, they were having
an affair, but this had nothing to do
with what happened to George.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: The cards are stacking up
and they aren't in Tia and Tim's favor.
The cops know now that the cheating couple has
been lying to them for months.
They also know Tia's shown an unhealthy interest
in cashing in on her husband's life insurance.
Come on, it is a million dollars.
Now police have the life insurance policy, the affair,
they have motive.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Hang on.
There's more.
Police are searching through Tia and Tim's
electronic devices, their computers, their phones,
and they find that Tim has been doing
some interesting searches.
He had some very odd internet searches for things
like snake venom, Black Widow spider
venom, or other deadly toxins.
Various kinds of ways one might
poison someone in case someone might want to poison someone.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Can anyone
else hear the sound of corks being
popped down at the station?
Late April of 18 both of them are charged with murder,
and they both plead not guilty.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG:
TIA YOUNG: It's not over m though, it's now up to a jury
to decide if the evidence is strong enough to prove Mrs.
young and her lover, Tim Lee, really are
a pair of cold-blooded killers.
March 28th, 2019, testimony gets underway in the murder
trial of Tia and Tim.
The jury will hear testimony that includes the fact
that this brother-sister relationship was
actually an affair the two were carrying
on behind George's back.
The jury will hear about a $1 million
life insurance policy where the sole beneficiary was Tia.
And the jury will also hear that there was a GPS tracker
that Tim had placed on George, the victim's, vehicle,
and found the need to, immediately after the murder,
run and retrieve it from George's truck
rather than helping George.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: So this is
what the prosecution is saying.
The tracker meant Tim knew, to the second,
when George would be getting home
from work on November 16, 2017.
As George's truck pulled up, Tim was waiting in the front yard.
He shot George twice then ran back into the house
through the back door.
George's friend, Rob, just can't fathom such an evil act.
When you go home, it's that time
where everything just drops.
And to know he's going in that door
and, putting his key in that door,
and he is ambushed by the people who he thought loved him
and who he trusted.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: And their motive?
It's a no-brainer.
It was about the money.
It was about that $1 million.
It was about her and Tim having a relationship
and being able to start over again with the $1 million.
Tim and Tia started having an affair
and basically they wanted to be together.
And George had a very high insurance,
life insurance policy.
And that's what the plan was, was
to kill him, collect the insurance,
and then be together.
So while my friend, my cousin, every other great name I could
ever call him, was breaking his behind,
working three different jobs, doing
the best he could to love his family,
her and Tim were starting their own family.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: The courtroom was packed
with people who loved George.
Hearing the word guilty is a bittersweet moment for them.
After all, the deliberation and everything that happened,
we heard guilty verdicts at the end.
First off, you get a real quick feeling that comes,
first feeling comes.
George isn't coming back.
That guilty verdict doesn't, doesn't
all of a sudden he walks to the courtroom miraculously.
He's not coming back.
But the second piece of that is the people
who are responsible for his murder are going to pay for it.
Tia was sentenced to life in prison
with the possibility of parole plus 3 years.
Lee was sentenced to life in prison
without the possibility of parole.
The judge said, you know, he thought
that if the two had not had this affair,
George might still be alive today.
He actually put the bulk of the blame on Tim Lee.
Here was a man that George had opened his home to.
He had given him a job because this man was down on his luck.
And how was he repaid?
He was repaid by having Tim steal his wife,
attempt to steal his life insurance,
and ultimately to steal his life.
It was the ultimate betrayal.
The judge wanted to make that clear
and make sure that Tim Lee would never see
another day as a free person.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: The sentencing of Tia
young and Tim Lee brings a kind of closure
for George's loved one's.
Justice has been done for George.
But can anyone ever really wrap their head
around that kind of betrayal?
Cheating on your husband of 22 years.
Killing him.
Taking away your son's dad.
What in the world?
What in a world in life could cause
you to think that this was a way, that this was the answer?
To take a man like that away from his children,
from his family.
Do you know how much he loved you?
Do you know how much he talked about you and his family?
Do you know the dreams that he had?
Do you know why he worked so hard?
He would talk about his loving wife.
He trusted you.
He trusted you more than anything
else in this entire world and you betrayed that trust.
And I hope, I hope she suffers every day.
Every day.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Tia young and Timothy Lee
were found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
One in five murder victims are killed by their spouse.
George Young had the misfortune to love the wrong woman.
I'm Michelle Trachtenberg and I'll see you next time
on "Meet Mary Murder."
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