Young is currently completing a book to be published in 2025, centered around a 1987 murder case and alleged wrongful conviction in New York City.
Young began her career at WMTW, the ABC affiliate in Portland, Maine, where her reporting, profiled on A&E's Cold Case Files and TruTV's Forensic Files, led police to the remains of Pearl Bruns, a South Portland grandmother who was found buried in the basement of her home after she was beaten to death by her husband.
Young's 2005 book, A Bitter Brew: Faith, Power and Poison in a Small New England Town, documented a 2003 arsenic poisoning that took place at a small Lutheran church in New Sweden, Maine, killing one church member and making 15 others critically ill.
[4] In December 2009, Young's series of multimedia stories on the Jones case[5] was highlighted in testimony before the Federal Trade Commission by Karen Dunlap, president of the journalism think tank Poynter Institute.
[6] Jones, the son of Count Basie and Duke Ellington jazz drummer Rufus "Speedy" Jones, served 22 years in prison before winning an early release that legal experts noted Young's reporting played a role in bringing attention to the case, contributing to its eventual resolution.