worried about her friends and neighbors kay and becky, tamara baldwin left work and headed home to what shockingly had become a crime scene. >> did you see lots of vehicles and uniforms and -- >> a lot of police cars, the entire corner was all taped off with crime tape. now you see two houses that i have to pass to get home, and you wonder what's goin' on. >> reporter: and what the responders found inside these homes would put this neighborhood into full-on panic mode. investigator jimmy edmunds entered the home of kay, the shattered glass back door, the one the contractor first noticed. then edmunds saw it, a trail of blood. >> immediately, i could start seeing spots of blood on the floor. i could see an empty coffee cup that had spilled right there on the floor from mcdonald's. >> there was a mcdonald's bag on -- food bag on the floor and a purse. and i started seeing signs of blood on -- on the sofa in the living room, on the -- on the carpet.