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 money. reporter: edmunds had some tough, personal questions for becky about her son michael. 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 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
reporter: by now, jimmy edmunds had no shortage 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 speak to me. so i pull mr. jacobs, jerry jacobs, out of his cell and take him to an interview room. you re jerry, right? is that what you go by? yeah. reporter: jerry jacobs was serving time for a misdemeanor parole violation. what s his story? he was pretty upset. jerry tells me that as he was in the jail he saw the news and he saw what happened to kay parsons. and at the time he looks at me and he says, i think i know who did it. and i said, really. tell me.
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.
ground on the loose. right. what are you doing on that score? we had started sending units out to see if anybody had seen anything, see if anybody heard any gunshots. see if anybody saw anybody matching the description of the suspect. and we were not able to find anything. reporter: the only forensic evidence douglas could find in the parking lot was the .25 caliber slug that grazed becky s legs. her shoes were still laying there. we found a spent shell casing, and then we had also found the actual projectile 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 s 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 j
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 been? how long has it 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 wasn t like it was a long lasting thing. it was just a couple of months long. reporter: edmunds didn t 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 couldn t just couldn t figure out what yet. turned out there was? there was. yeah, there was. there was some secrets. reporter: coming up in a love triangle, someone always ends up hurt or worse.