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On the map, but if civility is something that you want, you couldnt do much bet erter that on the settle in grovetown, georgia. It is one of the best places. The army fort is down the road are and the citys 12,000 residents are acve or mitary. Crime stats can be measured inin stolen bicycles. Here sis a veteran investigator for the county. How big is the e ime . Hardly any crime. Dozens of homicides would you say . Maybe one a year. And they did a homicide in 2011 one that t nt people scrambling for fresh ammo. You wondered what is going on. So many terrible things happened so quickly and so many taboos broke enn on a suburban n street thahathe mind reeled. We were so much praying for the fam the family. The neighborhood was shocked. It began here with two best friends on a street called hot springs drive in grovetown. Kay parsons had moved into the neighborhood in 2005. She was a devoted wife to her sband david who worked at fort gordon and an actiti mom cheering on her 12yearold son derrick. Tamara lived down the street. She was a sweetheart. Ways smiling, and just a joy to be around. Whahakind of things did s s like to do in. Mostly anything to do with her son and her husband. She was very supportive and always bei with them. Next door to kay was becky sears, a a she had her hands full, too, she and her husband tony had five kids, including two older sons from beckys previous marriage. She is one of the people who is outgoing and, hey, how you doing, type people. Tamara got to know both, but she says that kay and becky hit it off. They were best friends and inseparable and together 24 7 almost. The two neighbors became peas in a pod, and they worked at the me physical Therapy Center cacaed Healing Hands. Jordan cowley was their boss. What did you see with them . They were always cutting up, and always telling story about their best friends because they played baseball together. And they even joined weight watcders together. W w is up a pound and d dn a pound pound . Yes, everyday. And one day many march of 2009 began like any other. Kay, the Little League mom got and becky, the mother of five left a few minutes later before her work day began. All very routine, until 8 30 a. M. When contractor mitch cozart showed up to do some work. Sometell me what you found i saw that back door was broken io. Did you peek the head out and look around . I stepped my head just inside enough to holler out for her, and i didnt get no response. He tried to call kays phone and no answer there, either. He came back out front and noticed a young man sitting on a rock across the street. His name was michael, the oldest of kays friend with beckys five kads. Michael had overheard the contractor talking on the phone. I walked up to him, and i said, hey, did you Say Something about this house being broken and i said, well, mine has, too. And now, two broad daylight breakins. And i carry a firearm in my vehicle, and so i actually went out to get one, in case, because somebody could run out or whatever. So he called 9111. Yeah, the back doors broke , and the neighbors home is broke into it, and i called the neighbor, but she is not i dontt know, i hollered into the door and i didnt get any response. Yea i dont want you to go in. The contractor followed instructionsnsnd within minutes Law Enforcement resp potential burglaries right next police ted off the area, and calling heheat work, including kays husband david who was at work. He asked me, have i spoke even to kay, and said, no, not todada im at work. And he said, okay, im trying to get in touch with kay, im in california. First responders at the scene contacteded the sheriffs office. It is vererunusual to have two houses side by side hit at one time. That same way. You are thinking where is that guy going to go next . Correct. I am thinking where is he at . As edmonds turned his attention to thehereakins at the two homes, then they discovered something terrible sblchlt this is a pool of blood sblchlt this not a simple burglary, but a violent attack with the bloody trail between two best friends and the female body lying in the garage. She was beaten so severely, you could hardly recognize her. What happened on hot springs drive . And whose sanctuary was about to be violated next . A badly injured victim in one house, and was something worse waiting for police at the e xt door. The p pnt of entry there wawa the back door and we found spots of blood on the back door. Seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than four hours. Stop taking viagra and call your doctor rigig away if you experience a sudden decrease or loss in vision or hearing. 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Now you see two houses that i have to pass to get home, and you wonder whahas goin on. Reporter and what the responders found inside these homes would put this neighborhood into fullon panic mode. Investigator Jimmy Edmunds entered the home o kay, the Little League mom, through that shattered glass backckoor, the one the contractor first noticed. Then edmunds saw it, a trail of blood. Immediately, i i uld start seein spots of blooooon the i could see an empty coffee cup that had spilled right there on the floor from, from mcdonalds. There was a mcdonalds bag on food bag on the floor and a purse. And i started seein signs of blood on on the sofa in the living room, on the on the carpet. And then you go into the foyer area, where there was a loof blooon the walls, on the door, on the floor. So this is suggesting a moving struggle. E. Definitely. It looks like the homeowner came home and surprised a burglar in her house, and a struggle ensued where she was beaten. Reporter the bloody path led edmunds further into the house, to a bloody hand print on the door out to the parsons garage. And you can tell there was there was more beating goin on in the garage. There was blood spatter on the walls. So she was already bleeding before she got into the garage. Reporter and thats where this apparent struggle had ended. The deputies found 41year oldld kay parsrss lying there on thehe floor. Had you ever seen a scene like that . Nothing nothing that drastic, no. She was beaten so severely in her head, it was pretty bad. Reporter but amazingly, kay was alive. Emts huhuied her to the hohoital, her life hanging by a thread. She still had a heartbeat. But she was in a very bad way. Very, very bad way. Reporter investigator edmunds made the call to alert kays husband. He was in los angeles for work. I was able to talk to him on the phone, let him know he needed to come back here as quick as possible. So how did he take that news . He was pretty devastated. I tried not to tell him on the phone. I tried to tell him, you know, i n nd you need to come back. Theres been an accident, you know . But he he guessed pretty much what was going on. Reporter kays husband david booked a flight home, as investigators turned their attention to the house next door. Thats where kays friend becky the mother with five kids lived. Could there be another victim there . The point of entry we could see was the backdoor also there, and we found spots of blood on the back door. Reporter inside, beckys place was ransacked, but, quick relief, as they looked around there were no new victims. The blood smears theyd noted appeared to be from the crime scene next door. That means you have somebody or just crcrl enough to just just beat this woman so severely, and then is going to go next door and commit another burglary . Reporter becky had been at work that morning with her 19year old son christopher. The two of them raced home to the scene and met up with her older son michael. Theyre both there, so your mother and christopher are there . Yeah, they pulled up together at the same time, with Columbia County officer. We all walk around back to kays house, and my mom, she sounds very distraught. Shes shes screamin kays name. She shows up at her house while you were all in the backyard there . Right. Ey show up on scene and and theyre, wondering whats going on, and theyre theyre pretty pretty shaken up. Reporter everyone else in beckys family was accounted for, her husband tony, a long haul trucker, was away on the road, her three younger children were fine at school and day care. The investigator said beckys focus then turned to kay. Understandably she was upset. You know, she didnt know what happened to her nehbor. She just knew her neighbor had had left in an amamlance. Reporter and in fact, edmunds says, becky was less concerned about that burglary in her own home and more anxious to get to see her neighbor. Michelle amerson is a longtime friend of becky who also lived nearby. Her sister drove becky to the hospital. She got to the hospital, you know, she was demanding to get to see her friend. She go to bedside for kay, huh . Yeah, she wanand to get there. I said,d,what hospital did they go to . Reporter news of the attack quickly spread to another close friend of kays, Suzanne Frazier. I hung up the phone and i was shakin, and so, i called my bossssnd i said, i gotta a , i gotta go. And i left. Broke some broke some laws, huh . I ran red lights, i flew. I mean, i just went. Reporter tamara rushed to the hospital too. Did you get to her bedside or no. Be able to take a look in . I did not. I i just stayed in the waiting room. There were a whole lot of other people in the waiting room. But the prognosis was very bad, wasnt it . Machines were yeah. Keeping her alive at that point even, huh . Yes. Reporter r he friends all kept an edgy vigil for news about kays condition, waiting for her husband to get to her bedside. Lives all changed in an instant. A Home Invasion and burglary in broad daylight. A woman fighting for her life. And now a perpetrator on the loose. You dont know whether you have a guy on the move who could be ready to bust into another house along here, right . Exactly, exactly. We dont know if we had a mad man on the loose here, you know . W . You settinnp security on these streets . On every one of these streets, were goin to every one of these houses. Were stoppin anything that comes in or comes out of this whole neighborhood, were talking to everybody. Its your neighborhood. And yeah. Theres somebody out there whos apparently a very violent person. Yes. You gotta be terribly scared. I was. Im thinking that theres someone whos walkin around the neighborhood watching and seeing when people are leavin and basically attacking or repepter on hot springs drive, the investigators knew they had a serious crime on their hands, but as they learned more from that bloody scene, the shockwaves only kept rolling. Coming up he said, oh god. No, no, kay. Reporter a husband returns home to o agedy and questions. S. I jususgot a weird feeling g that something wasnt right. Unately, many people who spread it may not know they have it. Its called whooping cough. And the cdc recommends everyone, including those around babies, make sure their whooping cough vaccination is up to date. Understand the danger your new grandchild faces. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist about you and your family gting a whooping cough vaccination today. Think your heartburn pill works fast . Take the zantac it challenge zantac works in as little as 30 minutes. Nexium can take 24 hours. When heartburn strikes, take zantac for faster relief than nexium or your money back. The kids are asleep. Look what i got. Oh my froot loops [sniffs] lets do this . Get up get up get up get up loop me bring back the awesoso yeah yeah yeah with the great taste of Kelloggs Froot loops. Reporter friends and family gathered at the hospital keeping a vigil for kay parsons, a suburban mom whod been brutally beaten that morning in a Home Invasion. And while her nextdoor neighbor beckys home had been burglarized too, becky didnt seem to care as much about that. Good friend tamara says that for becky, it was all about getting to see kayay she continues to ask if well, can we go in and see her . Can we go in and see her . They tell us no. Reporter eventually, one of kays closest fries Suzanne Frazier did get back to her bedside. Could you rececnize her if you didnt know that it was her . Not really, not really. All puffed up . Very very face was very full. Head wrapped. So i asked the nurse, said, is she brain dead . And she didnt answer me. Reporter kay was just clinging to life, some wrenching decisions had to be made. And doctors were waiting for guidance from her husband david, who arrived back frou a business ip in california. How did david seem, the husband . He seemed very distraught. He seemed very upset. You could hear him screamin through the double doors. And he said, oh, god, no, no, kay. Reporter investigator edmunds saw david too. And Law Enforcement tends to see things a little differeneny, especially with husbands. At the e spital, you meet him in person, you see him . Right. His wifes on life support, you know. And hes pretty distraught. But i just, still, i just got a weird feeling. Something wasnt right. I couldnt tell if it was, overboard or if it was just i couldnt put my finger on it but there was something that was bothering me. Reporter so even though the husband had an alibi, that out of state business trip. Hes on your radar and you both know that . Yes. So im watching him pretty, prettylose. Rorter by that point ednds was trying to determine exactly what had happeneneon hot springs drive. He had his team take pictures of kay, collecting any physical evidence from that confrontation in the house. And they came up with something, a bit of human hair found under kays fingernails. It just might be from her attacker. She had defense wouous to her to her arms, to her hands. She was you know, bruises everywhere, all over her body. Reporter all indicating something se, kay had fought back. And whoever assaulted her had been on the prowl for something. Deputies shot video of the upstairs bedroom. It had been looted, with jewelry and other valuables missing. And they found what seemed like a similar m. O. In beckys house next door. The master r droom in that resisince had been ransacked. So both houses had been tossed. Both houses. Reporter beckys most valuable necklace and rings, gone. And as edmunds kept examining that grisly scene in t t parsons garage,e,e determined how the burglar had assaulted kay, with a hammer, found underneath the car, and a baseball bat. So the way the weapons the appeared just describe a horrendous attack . Yes, it appeared thatathis this hammer, you knono was used in in. There was so much blood, it it slipped outta the attackers hand. And, you know, the baseball bat, which we were able to determine belonged at that house, was was a weapon of opportunity after he lost the first weapon. Reporter it looked like the Little League mom was beaten with her own son dereks baseball bat. It really touched my soul knowing how much derek loved baseball. And im, like, how in the world could someone take a baseball bat and, you know, beat her . Reporter an oldfashioned dragnet remained drawn around the subdivision. Find the attacker. You got a crazy guy on your hands. Yeah, yeah. I mean, he he he beat that woman severely, and we need to nd who it was and whwhe he was and and get him off the street. Reporter some residents mentioned a mysterious figure they had seen recently. We heard about a guy that that supposedly a homeless guy th was livin in the woods around there somewhere. Reporter so the investigator dispatched some deputi to check out the area just a few hundred feet from kays house. We checked the woods. We didnt see any signs of anybody livin there, anything of thanature. And we really couldnt prove odisprove 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 whlived just around the corner from kay parsons home. We look at our neighborhood and see whos livin around there. And we, you know, we had a frequent flyer in there that a who . A frequent flyer, you know. That thats 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 weve arrested him several times for burglaries. And he lives close by in the ea. So if a computers missing or a piece of jewelrys gone astray . If theres carsrsroken into you go to your frequent flyer and ask him what he knows about it, huh . If hes 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. He had an alibi. I. There was no way he could be there. Reporter then from the hospital, the news everyone feared and expected. Doctors determined kays injuries were too severe for her to make it. The family decided to take her off life support. Kay parsons, devoted wife e david, loving mother to derek, was gone. And so then they let me know that she had passed away. You lost your friend, kay. Yes. Yep. A beating death, a breakin. Yes. How horrible is this for you, suzanne . One of the worst days of my life. I didnt expect it. 41 years old. I mean, you can see somebody dying of cancer or, you know, in a car wreck or Something Like that, but to be beatat beyond anything. Did you go back . Yeah. Yeah. You said goodbye to kay . As much as i coul reportete now the stakes quickly became much higher for this investigation. Kay parsons had been murdered. And edmunds started thinking this killer might just be someone who knew both women, becky and kay. Someone who had been right there at the scene of the crime. Police take a closer look at beckys son michael. he discovers his mothers house broken into. Hes on the scene when we get the. That raised a lot of red flags. Mothers best friend . Pain from your day can haunt you at night, dont let it. Advil pm gives you the healing sleep you need, helping you fall asleep and stay asleep so your body can heal as you rest. Advil pm. For a healing nights sleep. Give extra. Get extra. 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Reportete so they turned to the first person in thth neighbororod to notice something was wrong the contractor whod alerted 911 first man on the scene. Investigators had to wonder why he was really there. At this point everybodys a suspect, you know . You know, and logically hes the first one. Reporter edmunds brought him down to the substation for questioning, and they went through the story he had told at the scene. It was an and i walked down to the hall and i sai hey, is anybody in there . And anyway i didnt hear thin. Reporter but you also have to ask him if thats really what happened. Yes. Reporter i mean, hes the guy who discovers this violent criminal act, and you wonder if he knows more than hes saying. Oh, definitely. Reporter t ty pressed him to find out more about just what work he was to do there, and whether he had worked for kay parsons before. Did you have the key have the door open to the house . To do the work . Well, we we was mostly outside. The only time e at we was really on the inside is when she called me up and said, i need a little bit fixed on the inside. Reporter you had the bad luck of bein the person to find thisis yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Reporter so, that put you on the list also, mitch, of sure. Sure, yeah reporter people they want to get a full story from. Exactly. Reporter maybe with some sharp questions, huh . Yeah, exactly. I i knew better to walk in that house, you know . Because i did not want anything my fingerprints anywhere in that house. Because i just, you kw, watched enoughv to know better. Repororr whatd you whatddou see in him in terms of dememnor . He seemed pretty genuine to me. He was pretty shaken up. Reporter so investigators knocked the contractor off their list but in his interview he helped point them to someo else that boy on the rock. Then i seen that boy sittin the nextdoor neighbor sittin down on a a ck across the street. And that made m mkinda suspicious right there, cause i be i said i said, i wonder if this guys a lookout. Right . I mean, he might be still you know, somethin is goin on here. Reporter michael, beckys 22 year old son from next door. Remembmb, he was also on thehe scene that morning when deputies arrived. A neighbor and familiar face to kay, the victim. That got edmunds thinking. I thought, you know, if she came home and surprised this burglar and she knew who this burglar was, he couldnt let her get away. Reporter you can almost see that little movie play out, the motivation, what happened. Exactly, exactly. So we started lookin at michael pretty hard. Reporter michael told them hed gotten there around 8;30 that morning only to find his house had been burglarized and hed promptly called his mom. But t hadnt called the p pice, which seemed a bit strange to investigators. Whats more there was no forced entry to that residence. Reporter there wasnt . There was no forced entry. Reporter that was odd o, and they were about to learn a lot more about michael. He was beckys oldest son. He and his brother chris were from a prior marriage. And michael came with a hihiory of trouble, mostly drugs. So, thats gotta make your nose twitch a little bit. Most definitely. Hes on the scene when we get there. Hes had a lot of problemsn the pa with drugs. So that raised a lot of red flags. Reporter opportunity to get quick cash . Most definitely. Drug habit . Make a buy . You know, they gotta get money. And the best way to do that is is burglaries, you k kw . Get ththquick cash. R rorter did you have trouble with drugs at the time . I wont say trouble, but it was reporter you were a regular customer, huh . I mean, it was a social thing. Wed be being dumb and young, thats all. Repter smokin weed, or harder stuff, michchl . Ah, smokinneed and a little harder stuff, pills, things like that. Reporter this is methadone . Yeah. Uhhuh. Yes, sir. Reporter with michaels sresence on the scene, and drugs now in the equation, edmunds team brought him down to their substation for questioning. Now, im going to be pointblank with ya, if you knew anything about this yowould tell me right . Absolutely. When was the lastime you took some methadone . Today. Today . Uhhuh. Reporter so michael had used methadone on the morning of kay parsons murder. Now investigators wanted to know more about where exactly he was when the assault hapned. Michael said his mom becky had dropped him off at a jobsite just before 7 00 a. M. To do some house painting. Where did you telelyour mom you had this paint job . When did you tell her you were told her a little while ago. This morning. Reporter but heres the thing. He didnt do any house painting that day. And he initially lied to his mom and investigators about working. And the whole reason you lied to us was because you didnt want your mom to find out that you didnt really have a job . Yes, sir. That just tt blows my mind. Reporter and there was Something Else that really trtrbled investigators. If michael was the attacker, he had cleaned himself up before deputies got there. He had no blood on his clothes or visible wounds. But he did have Something Else. I asked him to let me see the boom of his shoes. And as he lifted his shoes up, i saw small pieces of glass stuck in the bottom of his tennis shoes. And that glass was the same type of glassssrom the back door atat kay parsons house. Reporter in the Interrogation Room michael couldnt explain how the glass from the murder scene got there. As far as glass that was found in your shoes, how can you explain that . Glass i imy shoes . I guess i dont know. Maybe i guess i dont know. I really dont know. Reporter so, whats he doin with that glass under foot, huh . Thats what i want to know. Thats what i want to know. Reporter investigators talked to michaels brother chris the son whod arrived at the scene later with their mother becky. Chris seemed to have his life together in a way that michael didnt. He had a job, even his own use. That morning he was helping his mom at the Therapy Center where she worked. Your mom picks you up about what time . I got up at 7 00, brushed my eth. Shsh she pulled up 7 10. Then you go to work with her . Yes. Reporter then they asked him about michael. Chris said he knew his brother took drugs but he said michael wouldnt have killed anyone. Do you think your brother did this . Or do you thininsomebody . Absolutely not. I dont think my brother has it in his heart. I just want to make sure that that that at this point, brotherly love is not outweighing common sense. B bause i just saw somemetuff in your brother just talking to him for about 20 minutes. Im sittinthere going, what . People get on methadone. They dont have any money. They are not working. Well how they going to get money . I i i agree on that. Well, out of everybody that your brother hangs around with who would be the most likely to do something yeah, yeah. Like that . You ]ight need to get a bigger piece of paper. Because of those drugs, man. Id go for seventeen hours. Reporter so michaels brother confirmed the troubled young man ran with a shady crowd. Investigators were all ears. Reporter does his association with the house, his back story, make him a person of interest to you . Hes definitely a person of terest. Reporter the deputies keptpt michael at the station for nearly three hours but they didnt hold him that day. He gave them a number for his alibi witness that friend hed gone to see that morning. Would he vouch for michael . Coming up another mystery. We had some blank checks in one of our offices that sappeared. And a new theory of the crime. You didnt even come close to we didnt know in they were in this together or what. But very sticky. 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If he saw something in t t budget that he thought violated his conservative principles, you could guarantee it was gonna get whacked. He vetoed a bunch of my stuff and i was the senate president. The message to washington, d. C. , is get rey. because there will be change. Reporter sheriffs deputies were now zeroing in on Michael Bowers as a person of interest in the murder of kay parsons, his mothers best friend. With the glass in his shoe, him being the one showing up at the house, finding the burglary and his past history of drugs. And you know, drugs and burglaries go hand in hand. Reporter investigators believed that kay was beaten at her home in a narrow window time between 7 1 1and 7 20 that morning. But michael said he didnt arrive at the scene until 8 30. And said he had an alibi forhe time before that. Hed been hanging out, he id, with a friend named anthonon reporter whats the story he tells you about that day . We pull anthony in and we interview him. Anthonys a character. He hes pretty lively. Hes very talkative. He hadnt had time to talk to michael. We knew michael hadndn talked to him. Reporter so you got two unvarnished stories, this might work out. Theyavent had a chance to compare notes. Exactly. What time michaelet to your house . 6 45 roughly. You awake, sleep, what . I was up. I was up. Well, i was laying back down. I was laid down on the couch, getting ready to go back to sleep. I dnt expect him that early. But but you were expectg him . Yeah. He said he was going to come over. How lononwas he there . Till from m en he got there, which was roughly 6 45 till 8 27 on the dot. They were pretty consistent. You know, anthony was his his time was pretty consistent with with michaels. But we still, you know, we we didn know if they were in this togeer or or what. Angelelas on. Thats what i watch in t t and some you watch you watch the episode of angel wednesday morninin that hour . Tell me what you no, actually, i talked to michael for pretty much the entire hour. But angel was on the boob tutu. Reporter as he sat in thth intervieieroom, investigators didnt know what to make of this talkative character. So they hooked anthony up to a polygraph machine. And asked him again where he and michael were that morning. You didnt even come close to passing that polygraph. Im sorry. But im not lyg about it. I told him id take another one. I mean im, ifif was lying, why the hell wouldld have said id take it . The more important part is well, Stranger Things have happened. Im sure. Yeah. Well, im telling the truth. So it is what it is. Tell you, r. But yoyocan ill give youou whatevererou want, you know, they already took my mouth, yeah. But i didnt do any of this, man. Ov and over that he had nothing do with kay parsons murder. Didnt even know her. Straigig up with you guys asas possiblele i mean well, and that and thats what i want. Yes, sir. Im im not going to lie about it. I want you to catch the guy. I just i dont want you looking at me like i did the [ bleep ]. cause i aint dude, i aint real cool with you. I dont think itit a really you know, if you or me or or some guy got hurt, thats one thing. You know . But not a lady. You know . Not somebodys mom. Reporter and he started to put the finger more on michael. He knows something. Well, i dont but i dont rightly know. What do you mean . What does he know . I dont know what he knows. Dude, ok, youre not catchchg me up in something. He knows something. What does he he saw something, he did something, one of the above. I would assume if michael or any of his people had something to do with it, its for dope. Theyre going to have enough sense to [ blele ] be able to beat, what, an entire team of investigators . I doubt it, dude. I doubt it. I figure, by the time everybodys d. N. A. Comes back, cause i know im not the only swab you got, somebodyll get caught up. So you you youre completely confident your d. N. A. Is not in that house anywhere . I know its not. I know i is not. He he keeps saying, you know, i i didnt do anything so i dont have anything to worry about. Reporter but was he in fact on your list at that point . Oh, he he was, you know. He was, he put himself with michael. Well, i think you know a little bit more than youre telling me. Sir, i dont. I i iveve im giving you pearls, man. Im giving you all i got. I ive told you guys everything i know. I know that he came over. I know exactly when he left. I know i was at my house. Thats all i know. Reporter for all his questions, investigator edmunds ultimately had nothing on anthony. A failed polygraph isnt evidence, and nothing connected him to the crime. But they w we still looking at michael, and there was the inevitable question of motive. Sure, michael was open about his drug use, but that didnt entirely explain why he would savagely beat his moms best friend. My bookkeeper came to me and said weve got some issues here. Reporter jurgen cowling has a story to tell about michael. Becky and kay both worked for him at Healing Hands physical Therapy Center, and sometimes michael would do oddddobs at the fice too. Michael would come in and do some more, we had some flooring thatd be put in, some carpet. Assist. Reporter but after a while people in the office started to notice something. We had some blala checks in in one of our offices that disappeared. Reporter becky and kays boss says the checks went missing while michael had been doing some cleaning in the office. So i i pull becky in. Shsaid she sat down with michael anantalked about it. And, of course, michael said, yes, it was me. Reporter how much money was stolen in that incident . About 800 bucks. Reporter 800 bucks . Yeah, three or four checks, about 80bucks. Reporter and it was all michael. And he fessed up p it, huh . Yes, sir. Reporter so becky must have been, what, em embarrassed . You could tell she was really distraught. Reporter theealing hands boss agreed with becky that he wouldnt report the incident to police, as long as michael neverer came back there. But had beckys friend and coworker kay found out about the stolen check funnybusiness . Could that have led to a conflict between michael and kay . But,4heres the thing, the authorities wouldnt even learn about the healili hands theft for months to come. The theft, michael was shaping up to be a prime suspect in the murder. It wasnt looking real good for him. Things started started piling up. Reporter then something happened that would stand the investigation on its head more violence, more mayhem, with another sudden attack. Who was t t victim this time . Was someone stalking women in this small town . Somebody came out by the trees and he shot me. Pcoes whaaat . music begins. 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But thererwas at least one person who stood squarely behind michael. Beckys good friend, Michelle Amerson, knew all about michaels struggle with drugs. Still, sheouldnt accept that he had anything to do with kays murder. Did you wonder,r,well, i wonder whats going on . Is there something about this boy i didnt know . No, i didnt really. Because, knowing michael i didnt i knew that, you know, he wasnt wouldnt do anything like that. Reporter r hen just 36 hours into the Murder Investigation another attack. This time a shooting. Just ten miles from the crime scene on hot springs drive. 911. Somebody came out from behind the trees ananhe shot me. Reporter Sergeant Steven douglas was dispatched to the scene. My partner and i received a phone call from the Road Patrol Division in reference to a woman who had apparently been the victim of an Armed Robbery as she was leavininwork that evening. And had apparently been shot in the process. Do you know where youre hit at . My legs. Reporter theocation of the shooting sounded familiar. Whats the name of your office . Its s aling hands physical reporter so did the name of the victim. Whats your name . Becky sears. Reporter becky sears, the best friend and coworker of mumuer victim kay parsons. That is kind of a holy cow moment. This is the same woman next door to this house where thered been a vicious beating. Yes. It seemed an odd set of coincidences. So this is the back door of Healing Hands . This is the back door of the business that we got called to. Reporter as the sergeant pulled up to the scene, he learned becky had been working late on the company payroll. She was heading to herar when she was jumped. Apparently when she had turned around, an unknown male subject wearing dark clothes and a white baseball cap rushed out of the bushes at her, with a firearm, demding his money or next time it was going to be her face. Reporter thats when the assailant shot becky in the legs. The subject apparently didnt rob her, didnt take anything from her, but turned around and ran back into the bushes the way th he came. Shes not known for doing the night deposits with cash. Exactlyly not at this time of night. Whats the target, what are you going to get . Has to be personal. One would think so. Reporter emts transported becky to the local hospital. It didnt take long for the troubling ne to reach beckys friend michelle. Did you talk to becky on the phone after shed been shot . I did. I i st asked her, was she ok . And she said i am. She said, you know, just tryin to get through this. Shes your friend, youre worried, huh . Yes, wowoied about her. Reporter so was Tamara Baldwin. First kay now becky . It just, it did not make sense to me. What in the worldas going on . Thats what i wanted to know. Reporter sheriffs deputies immediately canvassed the matching becgys description of the suspect, and we were not able to find anything. The only forensic evidence that douglas could find in the parking lot was the. 25 caliber ug that were still in beckys shoes. Her shoes were still laying there. We found a spent shell casing, and then we had also found the tual projectile itself, right on the edge of the sidewalk. And you didnt find a tossed weapap in the vicinity . No, no weapons. Reporter the shooter had vanished without a trace. But you had more questions, didnt you . We did indeed. Reporter but those questions would be left for Jimmy Edmunds, whose investigation into kay parsonss murder had suddenly become a lot more complex. Here iveveot two neighbors, you know, one has been beaten to death and the other one has just gotten shot. And they both worked at Healing Hands. Do you believe that the gunman who has wounded becky is also the person whos broken in and fatally beaten miss parsons . Of course that comes to mind. I mean, course it does. Its just too o ch of a coincidence. Reporter and nothing about this shooting took the heat off beckys son michael. Whats the working theory . The working theory still is, michaels still pretty high up on the list. Somebodys looking for some money. Mebody owes somebody some money. Reporter edmunds had some tough, personal questions for becky about her son michael. Thankfully the wounds to beckys legs were superficial. So edmunds grabbed his note pad, and his tape recorder, and headed to the spital. Ecky, shes in the hospital bed. Right. Not too badly injured. Not too badly injured. When im talkin to her, shes, you know, shes really hurting. Reporter the investigator en asked becky for d dails about the shooting. What did he say to you . Who . The guy that shot you . He wanted his money or next time it would be my face. What money is he talking about . I have no idea. We did not owe anybobo any money. Does michael . Not that i know of. I dont want you dead next. I iont think michael k kws. Unless he owes money from the past, i dont think he owes any money now. Reporter to edmunds, becky sounded like a mom unwilling or unable to wrap her head around the possibility of her sons involvement in a murder. I think hes trying to stay away from all of that to get out to better himself. Reporter edmunds spun through the possibilities was becky in denial . Was she covering up for her son . Or was he heading down the wrong path with michael altogether. He decided to cast a wider net. Is there some any relationships youre not telling us about . Like . You havent had any problems th anybody . No, nobody. Family problems . Reporter thats when becky revealed an intimate detail from her recent pas she and her husband tony had gone through a rough patch in their marriage. I mean my husband and i were having some problems, which we were thankfully working out. Do you have any relationships on the side . I did. How long has that b bn . How long hahait been over . Yeah. Three months. Reporter suddenly, added to the mix of a brutal murder and a bizarre shooting was this admission of an extra marital romance. I mean it wasnt like it t s a long lasting thing. It was just a couple of months long. Reporter edmunds didnt press becky any further about the affair. A hospital room immediately following a shooting was neither the time nor the place. But the investigator was intrigued. He left becky wondering who the other man was. I knew there was somethin there. I just couldnt just couldnt figure out what yet. Turned out there was . There was. Yeah, there was. There was some secrets. Reporter in a love triangle,e, someone always ends up hurt, or r worse. Why would you cheat on someone that loved you so much and was always there for you, to be with someone or to just to have sex basically . Why . E earning it twice. You can with the citi double cash card. Once when you buy and again as you pay. Its cash back then cash back again. And thats a cash back winwin. 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Reporter the story of Becky Parsons and kay sears had become very complicated. One killed and the other shot outside of the office where they both worked. It was juicy enomgh to keep this usually sleeee town wide awake for the evening news. Ashley campbell is an affiliate with the local tv station. After the shooting, she started working her contacts. I pressed one of the Columbia County investigators, and what is the connection here and he said, hold on, because i cant tell you anything g t, but it is about to get a lot more crazy. At the hospital, becky revealed she was having an affair, but she didnt say the mans name and in the next morning in what could only be a a cky break, deputies got a close tip to someone close to family and the other man was David Parsons, kays husband. It was a shock. Beckys friend michelle could not believe itit she and david had had an ongoing fling. David had carried on the affair with his wife close friend and neighbor with becky r six months prior to his wifes death. The revelation of a love triangle would send the investigation into the realm of soap op erera and raise all nds onew questions. You the next door neighbors, best friend, and go g oning on the trips together and behind the scenes, you have love leters written between Rebecca Sears and David Parsons. Repepter notes like theses later uncovered by the investigators showed that things were pretty steamy on hot springs drive. One said, rebeck car, i hope you like the picture frame. I wish i could have given it to you before i left for p. A. I love you, baby. And this one, even when you dont think that i am thinking about you, i am. And becky wrote to david being apart from you is very with yound knowing that you love with me makes all of the time that we are together bearable. Was a secret love that the two had kept hidden in a small town where gossip travels at warp speed. It was shocking more than anything. I never would have expected it. Did you know anything about david philandering . No, not until i heard it on the cell phone that did you hear affair with david. I said, no, no way. David was still seen azs the grieving husband. If i had knowowabout the affafa, i dont believe there would have been as much support for david at the funeral or the hospital. Why would you cheat on somebody who loved you so much and was always there for you just to have sex b bically. Why . It wasnt worth it. Tamara thought back to the be behavior of david after the days after the funeral. Include and odd exchange between them. He comes up to me, and he hugs me very tight and he is bobohoo crying, and he tell ss me, i am sorry, i never meant for that is a funny thing to say. I didnt know this would happen. What did it meant . It could have meant i should havent been in california, or a lot ofofhings. And then he also asked about the phone call if he had asked me to talk to kay, and the thing is that he had never talked to me i ithe day, a skpd me if i had tataed to kay. Reporter it was strange to her then and now perhaps stranger when this new revelation came outment people were whispering if david had something to do with the murder, and maybe a way to escape a expensive and ugly divorce. He said, if i knew that david d s having an affair on me, i would take derek and get half oiz his retirement from the military and i would get what i could out of the account. Did the community really turn on him . Affair. There is is more no the story. And nouw ju a lethal soap opera in the midst of it . Yes. Things were coming together. And now you have to wonder what is going on with david, the husband. Yes, i i finitely do. Is he involved in this and does he want his wife gone . We have to look at all of those angles. Reporter all predictable questions, but in an investigation that was never less than n artling, more twists awaited around the bend. A tale from jail. He looks at me and says, i think k at i know who did it. I said, real areally . Who . And this guy was not the ordinary jailhouse snitch. The future starts now for all of us. Can anybody help us . Echo help us, help us, help us. Dont go it alone. Sears experts will help you score the loweststrices of the season. Use a sears card and get 50 off kenmore wall ovens and 35 off other kenmore appliances over 499. Sears. House experts for home owners. I really like thth organic soup. Yeah. At least we know what hes eating. Campbells organic soups. Reporter by now, Jimmy Edmunds had no shortrte of leads to work in the pair of crimes he was trying to solve, the murder of kay parsons, and the shooting of her neighbor becky. And then, another new lead. A big one. I get a phone call from our jail. They have an inmate that is requesting to spspk to me. So i pull mr. Jacobs, jerry jacobs, out of his cell and take him to an interview room. Youre jerry, right . Is that what you go by . Yeah. Reporter jerer jacobs was serving time for a misdemeanor whats his story . He was pretty upset. Jerry tellme that as he was in the jail he saw the news and he saw what happened to kayay parsons. And at the time he looks at me d he says, i think i know who and i said, really. Tell me. He says, i believe my sister had something to do with it. Reporter and who was jerry jacobs sister . Well, becky sears. Kays bestriend and neighbor. I thinky jaw dropped right then. Wasnt expecting that. He dropped a bombshell. Reportete beckys brother said he knew all about the affair between his sister and david. He told the investigator becky had once confided in him that david was trying to end it. Shed come ananmeet one day or there i ithe parking lot crying. And i was like, you know, whats wrong . And thats whenever she told me she s having the affair. He then goes on to say that becky was, had been pretty upset, crying because david wont leave kay. He wont leave his wife to be with her. Reporter jacobs then reveed his sister had no intention of giving up oj david or letting him stay married to kay. She had asked me if i knew of anyone or if i knew a way that we could do this to kill kay and make it lolo like an accident, like cut her brake line on her car and make it look like an accident, or do something in that effect. Reporter jacobs sa at first he thought becky was joking. Id be like, wjll becky, thats okay. You u ow, sometimes we alllleel that wayaybout people. You know, shes like, no. Shes like, i really want her dead. She said, she said, can we do seous . Wanting somebody to kill her . She wanted me to, and i told her i wouldnt. So sheu shopping around for someone that can do in kay . Yes. Her romantic rival. Revelation. A real doozy. A love sick woman plotting to kill her best friend and next door neighbor so she could have her friends husbandll to herself. Youve got a wild story and a wild theory on your hands. Most definitelyly i mean this case has taken so many twists and turns its unbelievable. Forget about the smash and grab and go robbery, thats gone out the window. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. We are looking at t me premeditation and planning here. Reporter but edmunds had to consider the source of the story. Of course, jailhouse stories are always tublesome because theyre tryi to do themselves some gd. Definitely. Reportete one thing the brbrher said was easy to confirm, he didnt do the hit job. He was in jail at the time of the murder. So if becky was behind it all, who helped her . Jacobs said there was another member of the family investigators should look at, beckys son chris. The young man with his own house. Jerry had been staying there before he was behind bars, and said chris also knew about beckys affair and how desperate she was. Would call christopher almost everernight and cry and tete him stuff. And he would get off the phone. And im like, is that your mom . And like, yeah. Whatwrong with her . You know what it is. You know whats wrong. Im like, yeah. I was like, david again . Hes like, yeah, david again. Hes like, she just needs kay out of her life bad. You know . Stuff like that. Reporter now that was a shocker. Investigators had had their eye on beckys other son michael from the getgo. I was surprised to hear it that way. I was expecting to hear that it was michael, really cause, you know, ive been learning so manyny ings about michael and and his past and all of that. You havent had any discussions with michael about like youve had with with christopher . Not like with christopher, no. No. cause m mand christopher are a ttle bit closer than me and michael. Do you know if she ever talked to michael about it . No, i dont. Have e seat right here. Reporter still, edmunds decided it was time to bring in michael for a second round of questioning. And this time, the investigator turned up the heat. Michael, its over,r,kay . Im not playing games anymore. Reporter at first, michael said he didnt even know that becky and david were having an affair. I know about the affair with your mom and david. My mom and david . Dont play stupid with me. Dont play stupid with me. Im telling you right now. Itll get ugly real quick, okay . This is your one and only chance to get yourself out of a whole load of trouble. It gets pretttthot and heavy in that interview room. Listen to me. Listen to me. I know whats going on, okay. I know your mom wanted kay dead, okay . Do you want to go to prison for the rest of your life . You need to Start Talking here and now. Reporter then edmunds moved on to the Million Dollar question did becky ever ask michael to kill kay. She has asked you specifically if you would kill her. No, she has not. I know its your mother a a i know y y want to protect your mother, all right . Youre 22 years old, right . Yes, sir. You might want to look out for number one right now, okay . Shes never come to me and said, would you kill kay for meme shes nevevesaid, would you kill someone for me . Reporter even after a three hour grilling, michael never cracked. Edmunds had to f fe the fact that michael was i iall likelihood telling the truth. By then, theyd come to believe his albi was solid. And theyd figured out that the glass from the crime scene that had so suspiciously turned up on michael shoes, could be easily explained. Michael had gone to look at the smashed in b bk door with the contractor just before police arrived. Did you have anything to do with that day . If i did, i wouldnt be sitting here. Did your mother ever ask you to kill kay . Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Only thing shes ever done is st like anybody else, you know . Ridingngn the road, somebody cut em off. Oh, i wish youd drive off the face of that cliff. Thats the only thing id ever heard her saying about harming anybody. Did you think that your mother could possibly have done the thing that they were accusing her of . No. And i dont think she could do it. Reporter Jimmy Edmunds wasnt so sure. And he still had to wrestle with the vexing problem of beckys and why . It was time to go talk to the object of beckys affection, david, and find out what he knew. A guilty man . Or jususa worried one . We get up and briefly walk out of the interview and he starts talking to himself, you you know. Oh, man. Theyre goininto blame me. If you struggle with type 2 diabetes, youre certainly not alone. Kind of medicine that lowers blood sugar. Imagine what it would be like to love yr numbers. Discover oncedaily invokana. 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Eww this is deep couch sitting. Reporter for investigators in grovetown, georgia, it had been oneneild story after another another. Fou they were hearing that becky had orchestrated kays murder, a all for the love of kays husband, david. The next question was the logical one what did the husband know . Youve obvisly got to talk to the husband. You know, shes having an affair with the husband, the wifes dead. You know, you haveveo look at the husband as well. Reporter reporter Ashley Campbell said the community was thinking the same thing. And david being away in california at the time of kays murder, didnt seem to absolve him. You know, oh, how convnvient. Hes in califofoia. And his wife is brutally i knew there was something ther i just couount just couldntt figure out what yet. Reporter but after finding out about his affair with becky and hearing that becky could be behind the murder, edmunds called david in for his first formal interview and got it on tape. What i need you to do is tell me about your relationship with becky. Okay. Reporter david came clean he admitted to being an unfaithful husband to kay and explained how we had been playiyi tennis working out, the four of us, and it would be peck ki and i gains against her and tony, and one day she said, you know, why i suck so bad at tennis is because you distract me so much out there. You know, kind of, you know, a little flirt thing goin on. Reporter a flirty game of mixed doubles that turned into a hot and heavy affair between next door r ighbors. You w we intimate with her r your home . Two times. Twice. Where would the other locations be . Most of the time in one of our two vehicles. Um, at her moms house. Reporter but david insisted hehe decided to end the affair. He told becky it was over. Im like, look, this is getting too close. I dont want kay to find out. Im, you know, im done with it. You know, im done with it. You know, im done with done seeing each other. Reporter at least, that is, until his young son derek went off to college. Ive told her multiple times that i did not, you know, want the situation to change at home. E. Because of derek . Right. Reporter right after david called it quits one month before the murder becky decided to coess to her husband tony sending aftershocks across t lawn to kays house. She told tony everything . Yes. And tony picked up the phonon and callll kay . Yes. Reporter the secret was out. I know that hurt her so bad and i apologized to her so much. She said shed forgive me and wed work through it together we were just going to move away from that and put it behind us and move on. He said theyre going to try to make it work. Theyre going to sell their house. They immediately put a for sale sign in front of the house and theyre goininto move and be away from becky. Reporter david told edmunds anancy chill fell on hot springs drive. Kay quit the job at Healing Hands and quit talking to becky. But that didnt stop david and becky from continuing to communicate. They would still talk and they would still meet for five minutes here and there. Reporter david insisted it was all abovovboard. Nothing physical. Yeah, we did a little bit of email and talked on the phone, but i was, you know, just checking to see how she was doing. And you know, et cetera. Reporter but as edmunds soon learned, that wasnt entirely true. As the interview continued, david revealed he called becky from california, the night before kay was killed. And it wasnt just to ask how she was doing. Tuesday night we had a long conversation. About . Nothing in particular. We just talked for a little while about what was going on, and then we got involved in, you know, phone sex over to the phone. The night before kay is killed. Reporter then the nene morning right around the time of kays murder david called becky again. This time because he said was worried about kay. Is it weird that the husband should be calling the mistress . Oh, definitely to check on his wife. Asking her to look in on his wife . You know, i whats up with that . Thats whatatm thinking. I mean, is he calling to say, hey, is it done, you know . You gotta wonder, right . Oh, definitely. Are these two in cahoots . Most definitely. Most definitely. You guys gotta believe me. This is the last thing so far from the last thing i wanted. To take heheand all that away from my son. Away from her family and all of her friends. Reporter throughout the interview, david repeatedly denied having any involvement in kays murder, or being a part of some plot to have her killed. Never once has there been any kind of insinuation, not even insinuating, that i would ever nt anything to happepeto her. Reporter as for those repeated calls from california the morning of the murder, david insisted he was genuinely concerned about kay. Is it normal for you to call her that early in the morning, call kay, you know, 7 00 in the morning . Always. I always call l r cause i, like, talked to derek before he went to school. I started gettin worried. I thought maybe she was in an accident or somethin out on columbia road or somethin. Eporter edmunds started thinking david was telling the truth. So he changed course and asked david whether he thought becky had it in her to mastermind kays murder. Deep down inside, do you think she could do this . I thought never. I never thought that she would be like orchestrator or set something up like this. I didinot think that. Desperate p pple do desperate things. How, see, desperate for what . Shes you. You. To hurt my wife . Kill my wife . To have my wife killed . Im not i do not believe that. Reporter edmunds kept pushing. Eventually david revealed that more than once hed wondered just how desperate a housewife becky had become. He told edmundnda month before kays mumuer, someone sent bizarre texts to her that hinted of the affair. David now suspected those texts came from becky. Did it ever ever run across your mind at that time were coming in, because your timetable and beckys timetable werent the same . It crossed my m md. She was trying to let kay know, becaususshe thought that kay would leave. Reporter davids interview went on into the night. We get up and briefly walk out of the interview. And hes still the, still being recorded and then he starts talking to himself, you know, about what have i done . Oh, man. Theyrrgoing to blame me. This cannot be real. Reporter but davids interview wasnt over yet. He had more to share including a clue that would bring edmunds and his team of investigators one step closer to the truth. Investigators learn more about another man in beckys life. It was a real, real strange mother son relationship. When his mother called, he would drop anything and go to m. There. 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Come back to you with Something Else thats comes out that you havent told me. Oh, well, you can ask me ything. Dont know what elseseou need to hear from me. Reporter before edmunds turned off his recorder, david did share one tidbit. Something that linked up with what beckysrother had told edmunds earlier. It was the name of the other person becky h h confided in about her affair with david. Beckys son, chris. I asked her who knew. You know, who else knew. And she did tell me that christopher knew that she was with somebody else. I donknow if that means anything or not. Reporte sheriffs deputies s spent a lot of thehe investigation looking at the relationships in beckys life. First her son michael. Then david. But it was beckys relationship to her other son chris that would prove to be the most intriguing. It was a real, real strange motheron relationship. When his mother called, he would drop everythinand go to mom. Whatever she wanted, h hwas there. Reporter becky, investigators discovered, doted on chris and showered him with extravagant gifts money, a motorcycle, a car. Nothing was too expensive for chchs. Not even the house he lived in. It was a house purchased by his mother. 18yearold kid with his own house. Yeah. That is kind of strange. Was he a mamas boy . Well, i mean, i guess he was a mamas boy, you know. Anything he needed, he got. Reporter but according to michael, beckys overtheto generosity always seemed to come with strings attached. It wawathat, hey, im goinin to need something from you. Heres the keys to your new car. Hey, im going to need something from you. Heres your house. Hey, im going to need something from you. Heres an envelope full of money. Reporter and whatever becky asked for, chris would eagerly deliver. He said, it may be very hard for you to understand, but i would do anything in this world for my for our mother. Have included killing his mothers romantic rival . L . Michelle amerson, who knew the family well, says over the last several years chris had grown distant. She worried he was heading down a dark path. He had changed a lot. So we were we werent around him a lot. When you say, he changed a lot, michelle, what are you thinking about . I hate to say, but you know, he just appeared to be in a different type of crowd than we were hanging with, so he might have had some issues going on. Remember, the investigators did interview chris right after the attack, and they were looking for dirt on his brother michael. Do you think your brother did this . Or do you think somebody absolutely not. But something about chris struck them as odd. Right from the get go, we sit down with christopher and he is trembling. Youre sitting here shaking like a dog trying to crap out per simmon seeds. I understand its traumatic, but youre extremely over nervous. Immediately we ask him, we said, whats wrong . Why are you shaking that bad . Honest to god, i think i have parkinsons. Ive always shake like this. Parkinsons disease . I w like, christopher, youre9 years old. That makes no sense. Reporter it was a bizarre little d dail they tucked awayay while they focused on other suspects. And when they went back over that interview, something jumped out the only alibi chris had for the time of the murder, was becky. You and your mom are at her work, which is Healing Hands . Healing hands therapy. Christopher says that he didnt go to work at h h regular job that mornini, he was supposed to go to his mothers work. She picked him up. Reporter so a conspiracy that morning between becky and chris seemed plausible even if it didnt explain the later ooting at Healing Hands. Now edmunds looked for a way to link chris to the murder scene. And he got another helpful call from beckys brother jerry jacobs in jail. They had shown jerry photos of the murder weaean before. Does that look fafaliar to no. I mean its brand new. Reporter then in a follow up ininrview jacobs came baba and ld investigators he e cognized the hammer. He said it came from beckys garage, a place chris often went to borrow tools. Ive seen the hammer in the toolbox in the garage. What toolbox . Where are talking about . In my sisters garage. Reporter sheriffs deputies found chris in front of the home becky had boboht for him packing his truck for a weekend getaway. Did he asaswhat was going on . No. Didnt really say anything. Put him in the car, we take him up to our office, and put him in the interview room. Everythings not happened the way you said it happened, so i want you to really think long and hard and t tl me youre a young man, right now. Basically you just called me a liar. Reporter chris, no longer shaking, defiantly asked for a lawyer. I want to speak to a lawyer right now. As soon as we read him his rights, he clammed up. Hes lawyered up. Reporter for investigator edmunds, the puzzle pieces had finally fallen into place becky had the motive to kill kay and chris, with his devotion to his mother and access to the murder weapon, was her means. Go ahead and stand up, place your hands behind your back. Yourerender arrest for murder. Chris would do anything for his mom and she knew it. Including kill the lady next door. And he did. Reporter and the woman behind iall . They arrested her and charged her with murder as well. W wre do you take down becky . She was staying at a hotel, at a holiday inn. We took her down in the hotel room. Reporter Tamara Baldwin could not begin to comprehend the news of their arrests. The b bky with the murderouou plot and the becky you knew from sports games and on your cruise and backyard gettogethers, how do you put those two halves of becky together . You cant put em together. Its like a square and a circle trying to fit together. I didnt see the square. All i saw was the circle. Reporter it didnt make sense to tamara and d didnt make senen to becky and chriss Defense Attorneys either. As they saw it, the states case was riddled with reasonable doubt. What was the weakest part about it . The weakest part about it was the lack of physical evidence connecting them to the crime. Puttingnghem in that house. Right. Reporter and they were just itching to get into the courtroom to try to tear apart the states case. If as prosecutors allege becky plotted d kill kay then who shot becky . He was the guy in the bushes he was the guy in the bushes with the gun. I miss out on lifes little moments. So i talked to my doctor and he prescribed latuda. There are many forms of depression. Latuda is fda approved to treat bipolar depression, in clinical studies, onceaday latuda was proven effective for many people struggling with bipolar depression. Latu is not for everyone. Call your doctor about unusual mood changes, behaviors, or suicidal thoughts. 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Reporter becky sears and her son chris had been charged with the murder of beckys neighbor and romantic rival kay parsons. And theyd hired a pair of veteran attorneyeyto prepare a vigogous defense. It was a tough situation. Reporter brothers vic and jacque hawk saw a prosecution case full of titillating soapy drama. But when they started looking at the actual evidence, they were unimpressed no forensics linked their clients to the murder. When you think about it, there were, they did all kinds of, um, csi type o otesting within the house. Nothing connected either becky sears or chris to the offense. Reporter no dna, no fingerprints, no eyewitnesses. And that oneneair recovered from under kays fingernails didnt match either one. The crime, they said, looked like a botched burglary, not a premeditated plot. You think about it. If youre going to go, commit a murder, you knkn, what are you gogog to pick. Youre going to pick a gun, youre going to pick a knife. Youre going to pick some sort of weapon that you can dispense with somebody fairly quickly. Okay, what are we going to do this murder with . Lets get a hammer and a bat. That seems crazy. How did you feel ababt your case, jacque . Oh, i felt great. I felt it was a winnable ce. Reporter they did what lawyers do. They went through the case file, pesterer the state to turn o or evidenen, and then they saw it. And it was devastating. It made it much more difficult, yes. Reporter the piece of evidence in the case file was a recorded interview with becky. A surprise to the defense. I mean, i was floored. Because, i was under the imimession that she hadnt made a statement. And then, we find out not only was it a statement, it was a fivehour statement, and with every kind of detail that that messed the case up. Reporter right a aer her arrest, becky had spoken, and what a story she had to tell. She began by insisting her relationship with kays husband was over. David was gng to make his marriage work and i wawagoing to make my marriaia work. I dont love him any more. I love my husband and my husband and i are trying to make our marriage work out. Reporter but she admitted she did talk with david on the night before kays murder. Whatd you talk about . We talked about ballgames, the kids, and sex over the phone. Which is somethin t tt, i mean, we had never done that before, and i dont even know how it ended up that way. But but you basically had phone sex . I guess thats what youd call it. D d you ask her bluntly, did you u ll kay, or did you c cse her death . We did. She denied it. Reporter but other details came spilling out when investigators challenged her. You have asked people, more than one person, on more than one occasion, to kill her. I have never asked anybody to kill her. The only thing i have ever done is say i well, i take that back. I did say to my brother one time, i wish that she was just gone. So she admits to wanting to have kay gone. She does. But she she does but she doesnt say that shes the no. She says she shehe the person who does it. Right. Reporter and as she kept talking, she admitted she wasnt quite so vague about her wishing ill on kay. Her story started changing slightly. Maybe she did talk to her brother about hiring a hit man. I was upset one day and my brother came over to my office and i was like, you dont know anybody thatll take anybody and i didnt even say kay. I just said, you dont know anybody thatll take anybody out, do ya . But you were talking about kay . I was. Reporter then came another revelation, this one about her son. She startsle telling us that whatever she knew that whatever she was saying, that, that she wanted kay gone, and that Crist Christopher was listening, and that would make her happy. Reporter becky began pinning it all on chris. Turning on her boy. Her own son. Reporter she admitted that on the morning of the murder she picked up chris and d ove him to her house on hot springs drive. She just hedged a bit on the reason. The implied reason was he was going to go next door. To kays house, to do what . We didnt talk about it. It was an implied reason, he was going to go to kays house to to because he was going, in his mind, to do whatever it took to make me happy. And of kay. So shes the puppeteer, putting all of these things in place for him to be tempted and act on it. Shes pulling all of the strings. Im not saying do this, but you and i both know what youre supposed to do here. Yes. Reporter in her inteteiew becky continued totonsist she didnt know what happened in kays house, that is, not until chris called her later that morning and asked for another ride. When he got in the vehicle, could you see blood on his clothes and stufe . I didnt see any blood on his clothes, but he had blood on his i ihink he had blood onon his face. And i asked him, what did you do . I said, oh my god, what did you do . And thats when he said he beat the [ bleep ] out of her. And i said, christopher, please tell me that she is okay. Please tell me thahayou did not do this. And what did he say . He said, i beat the [ bleep ] out of her. Shes giving up her son as a killer here. Shes shes throwin him under the bus. 2 this is extraordinary. It is. Do you realize how extraordinary it is as youre taking the story down . Oh, yes. Shes groomed him as her little killer. Most definitely. He was was her little monster. I messed up because i made christopher think that i wanted him to do something that was horrible, when i didnt want him to hurt anybody and i made him think that i did. And he was convinced that he was helping me. Reporter becky told investigators that chris got rid of his bloody clothes, stuffed them in his backpack. And she drove him back to her office. And then they lar showed up together at the crcre scene, pretending to know nothing, but alarmed that kay was still clinging to life. The next conversation that christopher and i had was at the hospital. When i talked to him and i was crying, and d said not to worry about it. That everything was going to be okay. And i told him i didnt know what to do to help him. He said i didnt need to do anything, that he was going to take care of everything. And i told him i was scared. Reporter after that, becky said she and chris worked totother to throw investstators off the trail. Which meant that shooting at Healing Hands was a total setup. It was christopher. He was the guy in the bushes. He was the guy in the bushes with the gun. Reporter chris had shot his own mother. A ruse to throw off the cops. And a bumbling one athat. Becky said t tir plan was for chris to shoot and miss. He didnt mean to shoot me. 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Well, i think it puts pressure o oher. Because then that gives him some reason to maybe, if he is hit with a significant sentence, Death Penalty, whatever, a good bit of impetus to come and testify againsnshis momma. Reporter the stata still didnt have any physical evidence against chris, but that was about to change. A box of bloody clothes and shoes had bebe turned over. Reporter becky had an 11th hour reveal she told authorities where to find the clothes chris wore during the murder. Shed stashed them in her mothers attic. Turning them over was a play to get herself a better deal. So she can do herse some good and get t t Death Penalty off the table . I think thats the obvious. Whatd you see when you opened it . I saw the backpack, black backpack just like she described. We found the jewelry taken from the parsons home. We found the jewelry taken from the sears home. It was all there. Signed, sealed, and delivered. That was it. There was nototng else to do . No, not at all. Reporter there would be no trial now. Instead, a plea agreement, in may 2012. Becky sears and her son chris bowers pleaded guilty to murdering kay parsons. They were spared the Death Penalty, but in the end, becky didnt get a better deal than chris. The judge sentenced them both to life in prison without parole. Becky appeared in court that day looking hardly like the wellputtogether suburban mom from days papa. Do you remember seeing becky on the news when she came to court . I did. What did you think . I was like, wow, i understand why she was s ing to weight watchers, because she had gained so much weight. And you know, really no remorse either. Reporter even her defense attorney, who withdrew from the case b bore that plea deal, said he could not fathom the taboos broken in this case, the families ripped apart. Shes turned the motherson relationship upside down. No mother would do what shes done. No real mother. And to have turned on her own son, that says more than anything else about becky sears. Repororr and even as she headed off to prison this saga wasnt over yet. Her old boss at Healing Hands says that while she was working for him, becky had her hands in the till. How much money, jurgen . About 250,000. Was s slen by becky from yoyo Healing Hands account . Yeah. So nice, friendly, gregarious becky out front has been stealing from you with both hands. Im guessing she was your best paid empyee and you had no idea. And you wouou guess right. Thats before you even get to the whole other thing of the business with kay. So who is this woman . Evil. Reporter becky was never charged with the theft. The da sayaythey had the evidence, but with her guilty plea and life sentence it all became a moot issue. And remember how michael was blamed for stealing checks from Healing Hands . He told us what really happened. It wawat me. That was my mother. She blamed you and you took the heat, huh . Well, yeah. She basically told me, hey, if i didnt do that for her, all the money she was making, e wowodnt she couldnt make no more. But you had nothing do with it . Nope. Sure didnt. Reporter its been years since he spent all that time in the Interrogation Room taking the heat for his mother and brothers crimes. Michael told us he still has nightmares about it all. Im torn up inside. Youre still part of the wreckage of this whole deal . Yeah. Have you talked to or seen yoyo mother since . No. I sure havent. Sure havent. Do mou want to . Do you have questions for her . I do. I sure do. If shes sitting here, what do you ask her . Id like to ask her what happened . What happened to the mother i had . You know. Reporter r ut michael is looking forward, with a new job and a new home. And his family friend Michelle Amerson says shes looking out for him. Youre still kind of a second mom for michael . Y s. Hows hm doing, in your opinion, michehee . Michaels doing better. We have had a lot of heartache over his loss and what he has been through, but he is a trooper, and he has a lot of ople standing be p b bind him. Reporter becky sears and her husband tony are now divorced. And kays husband david . Hes remarried, still living in the house where it all happened. Derek, just 12 years old when he lost his mom, is now serving in the marineneorps. Its been six years since kays death. For her friends it seems like yesterday. What were your last words to her . And you know theyre never going to be the last words, but th were. I said im sorry. I said, you know i love y, girl. And she says, i know, i know. And i said, ill talk tyou later. And that was it. T. Reporter today grovetown quietly bustles along, with few traces of the tragedy that happened on hot springs drive. But tamara says that for her, kays spirit is still there, right down the street. Do you offer up a little prayer to kay when you drive by r place . Of course. And also also to derek. It has to be hard on him. And so i always i always pray to make sure that he knows that even though his mothers not there, she loved him more than anything