>> reporter: so the investigator dispatched some deputies to check out the area just a few hundred feet from kay's house. >> we checked the woods. we didn't see any signs of anybody livin' there, anything of that nature. and we really couldn't prove or disprove there was anybody that was livin' in the woods there. >> reporter: so a potential lead, dashed. but investigators had another. unlikely as it may seem, tiny grovetown, georgia has a few 'usual suspects,' including a young man who lived just around the corner from kay parsons' home. >> we look at our neighborhood and see who's livin' around there. and we, you know, we had a frequent flyer in there that -- >> a who? >> a frequent flyer, you know. that -- that's somebody that we deal with all the time. you know, that -- that commit the same type of crimes, you know. we knew this guy. we -- we've arrested him several times for burglaries. and he lives close by in the area. >> so if a computer's missing or a piece of jewelry's gone astray? >> if there's cars broken into -- >> you go to your frequent flyer and ask him what he knows about it, huh? >> if he's close by, we -- we definitely talk to him. >> so in this case, on that day, you do that, huh? >> we do. but we were -- we were able to quickly rule him out.