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. you got a crazy guy on your hands. yeah, yeah. i mean, he he beat that woman severely, and we need to find who it was and where he was and get him off the street. reporter: some residents mentioned a mysterious figure they had seen recently. we heard about a guy 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 house. we checked the woods. we didn t see any signs of anybody living there, anything of that nature. and we really couldn t prove or disprove there was anybody that was living 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,
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. understandably she was upset. you know, she didn t know what happened to her neighbor. she just knew her neighbor had had left in an ambulance. 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 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
itself, right on the edge of the sidewalk. and you didn t find a tossed weapon in the vicinity? no, no weapons. reporter: the shooter had vanished without a trace. but you had more questions, didn t you? we did, indeed. reporter: but those questions would be left for jimmy edmunds, whose investigation into kay parsons murder had suddenly become a lot more complex. here i ve got 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 who s broken in and fatally beaten miss parsons? of course that comes to mind. i mean, of course it does. it s just too much of a coincidence. reporter: and nothing about this shooting took the heat off becky s son michael. what s the working theory? the working theory still is, michael s still pretty high up on the list. somebody s looking for some money. somebody owes somebody some mo
thankfully the wounds to becky s legs were superficial. so edmunds grabbed his note pad, and his tape recorder and headed to the hospital. becky, she s in the hospital bed. right. 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 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 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 s
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, michael said he didn t even know that becky and david were having an affair. i know about the affair with your mom and david. my mom and david? don t play stupid with me. don t play stupid with me. i m telling you right now. it ll get ugly real quick, okay? this is your one and only chance to get yourself out of a whole load of trouble. it gets pretty hot and heavy in that interview room. listen to me. listen to me. i know what s going on, okay. i know your mom wanted kay dead, okay? do you want to go to prison for the rest of your life? no, sir. you need to start talking here and now. okay? i didn t know it was david. i swear to you. 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.