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 of time between 7:10am and 7:20am that morning. but michael said he didn t arrive at the scene until 8:30. and said he had an alibi for the time before that. he d been hanging out, he said, with a friend named anthony. reporter: what s the story he tells you about that day? we pull we pull anthony in and we we interview him and and anthony s, he s a character. he he s pretty lively. he s very talkative. he hadn t had time to talk to michael. we knew michael hadn t talked to him. reporter: so you got two unvarnished stories, this might work out. they haven t had a chance to compare notes. exactly. what time michael get to your house? 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 didn t expect
make it look 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 said at first he thought becky was joking. i d be like, well becky, that s okay. you know, sometimes we all feel that way about people. you know, she s like, no. she s like, i really want her dead. she said, she said, can we do this? you say, i mean, she was serious? yes. wantin somebody to kill her? yes. she wanted me to. and i told her i wouldn t. so she s shopping around for someone that can do in kay? yes. her romantic rival. reporter: it was a stunning revelation. a real doozy. a love sick woman plotting to kill her best friend and next door neighbor so she could have her friend s husband all to herself. you ve got a wild story and a wild theory on your hands. most definitely. i mean this case has taken so many twists and turns it s unbelievable.
reporter: friends and family gathered at the hospital keeping a vigil for kay parsons, a suburban mom who d been brutally beaten that morning in a home invasion. and while her next-door neighbor becky s home had been burglarized too, becky didn t seem to care as much about that. good friend tamara says that for becky, it was all about getting to see kay. 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 kay s closest friends suzanne frazier did get back to her bedside. could you recognize her if you didn t 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 didn t answer me. reporter: kay was just clinging to life, some wrenching
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 wanted to get there. i said, what hospital did they go to? reporter: news of the attack quickly spread to another close friend of kay s, suzanne frazier. i hung up the phone and i was shakin , and so, i called my boss and i said, i gotta go, 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 no. a look in? i did not. i i just stayed in the waiting room. there were a whole lotta other people in the waiting room. but the prognosis was very bad, wasn t it? machines were yeah. keeping her alive at that point even, huh? yes. reporter: the
husband david who worked down in fort gordon and an active little league mom cheering on like to do? well, mostly anything dealing with her son and her husband. she was very supportive, always being with them. reporter: next door to kay lived becky sears. becky had her hands full, too. she and her husband tony had five kids, including two older sons from becky s first marriage. tamara baldwin: she s one of those people who s very outgoing, one of those, hey, how you doing, s type people. reporter: tamara got to know both, but says kay and becky really hit it off. they were best friends. they were basically inseparable. and they were together 24/7 almost. reporter: the two neighbors became peas in a pod. they worked at the same physical therapy center called healing hands. they d go on vacations with each other.y reporter: jurgen cowling was