Michigan Woman Dismembered and Murdered by Jared Chance: True Crime Case

ce responded to Chance’s two-unit rental home Franklin Street SE after the tenant of the lower apartment saw blood on a tarp in the basement. Officers found Ashley Young’s torso, but her head, hands, and feet were missing. Additional body parts were also discovered on the landing of Chance’s upper unit.

The show features photos – some graphic – of the crime scene and evidence retrieved, including an image of a reciprocating saw with Young’s blood on it.

Chance was arrested Dec. 2 that year and charged with second-degree murder, mutilation of a body, concealing a death and three counts of tampering with evidence.

Investigators later learned that after Chance killed Young, he cut up her body and called his parents a couple days later. He asked they pick him up and take him to their Holland home.

Chance brought body parts, Young’s clothes, a reciprocating saw and other items in boxes with him.

His parents, James and Barbara Chance, were later charged with perjury and accessory after the fact after prosecutors alleged the couple lied to investigators to protect their son.

A Kent County jury found Jared Chance guilty of all counts at trial in September 2019. He was sentenced one month later.

“It was an intense hearing where Chance learned he would spend 100-200 years in prison for Young’s death. His mother Kristine Young, delivered a powerful victim impact statement, ripping into Chance for over 10 minutes.

“Jared Chance, I hate you,” she said. “I want to rip you limb from limb and discard you like trash, like what you did to Ashley. You do not deserve to breathe. I do not know what Ashley saw in you that was worth saving.”

James and Barbara Chance were sentenced to jail for being accessories after the fact by helping their son dispose of body parts. The father received 30 days in jail while the mother was handed 45 days.

To this day, Young’s head, hands and feet have never been found. Teary-eyed, Kristine Young urged viewers to contact law enforcement if they know anything that could lead to the whereabouts.

“I need the rest of my child home,” she said.

Jared Chance is serving his sentence at the Muskegon Correctional Facility.