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 7:10 and 7:20 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 anthony in and we interview him. anthony 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? 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 didn t expect him that early. but but you were expecting him? yeah. he
we took her down in the hotel room. reporter: tamara baldwin could not begin to comprehend the news of their arrests. the becky with the murderous plot and the becky you knew from sports games and on your cruise and backyard get-togethers, how do you put those two halves of becky together? you can t put em together. it s like a square and a circle tryin to fit together. i didn t see the square. all i saw was the circle. reporter: it didn t make sense to tamara, and it didn t make sense to becky and chris defense attorneys either. as they saw it, the state s case was riddled with reasonable doubt. what was the weakest part about it? and it only takes one mosquito bite to transmit it. that s why you need to protect your dog with heartgard plus.
insinuating that i would ever want anything to happen to her. reporter: as for those repeated calls from california the morning of the murder, david insisted he was genuinely concerned about kay. i always call her 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 . reporter: 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 kay s murder. deep down inside, do you think she could do this? i thought never. desperate people do desperate things. how, see, desperate for what? she s you. you. to hurt my wife? kill my wife? to have my wife killed? reporter: edmunds kept pushing. he told edmunds a month before kay s murder someone sent bizarre texts to her that hinted of the affair. david now suspected those texts came from becky. it crossed my mind. she was tryi
bowers as a person of interest in the murder of kay parsons, his mother s 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 of time between 7:10 and 7:20 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 anthony in and we interview him. anthony 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? 6:45 roughly. you awa
hands and quit talking to becky. but that didn t 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 above board. nothing physical. yeah, we did a little bit of e-mail and talked on the phone, but i was, you know, just checking to see how she was doin and you know, et cetera. reporter: but as edmunds soon learned, that wasn t entirely true. as the interview continued, david revealed he called becky from california the night before kay was killed. and it wasn t just to ask how she was doing. tuesday night we had a long conversation. about? nothing in particular.