grovetown, georgia to investigate not one, but two burglaries. 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 little league mom, through that shattered glass back door, the one the contractor first noticed. then edmunds saw it: a trail of blood. immediately, i could start seein spots of blood on the floor. i could see an empty coffee cup that had spilled right there on the floor from, from mcdonald s. there was a mcdonald s bag on food bag on the floor and a purse.
not too badly injured. not too badly injured. when i m talkin to her, she s, you know, she s really hurting. reporter: the investigator then asked becky for details about 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 anybody any money. does michael? not that i know of. i don t want you dead next. i don t think michael knows. unless he owes money from the past, i don t 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 son s involvement in a murder. i think he s 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.
i m like, yeah. i was like, david again? he s like, yeah, david again. he s 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 becky s other son michael from the get-go. i was surprised to hear it that way. i was surprised to hear that it was michael, really cause, you know, i ve been learning so many things about michael and and his past and all of that. you haven t had any discussions with michael about like you ve had with with christopher? not like with christopher, no. no. cause me and christopher are a little bit closer than me and michael. do you know if she ever talked to michael about it? no, i don t. have a 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, it s over, okay? i m not playing games anymore. reporter: at first, mi
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 derek s baseball bat. it really touched my soul knowing how much derek loved baseball. and i m, like, how in the world could someone take a baseball bat and, you know, beat her? reporter: an old-fashioned 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 find who it was and where 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 that was livin in the woods around there somewhere. reporter: so the investigator dispatched some deputies to check out the area just a few hundred feet from kay s
or just cruel enough to just just beat this woman so severely, and then is gonna go next door and commit another burglary? reporter: becky had been at work that morning with her 19-year old son christopher. the two of them raced home to the scene and met up with her older son michael. they re 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 kay s house, and my mom, she sounds very distraught. she s she s screamin kay s name. she shows up at her house while you were all in the backyard there? right. they show up on scene and and they re, wondering what s going on, and they re they re pretty pretty shaken up. reporter: everyone else in becky s 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 becky s focus then turned to kay. understanda