so you you you re completely confident your d.n.a. is not in that house anywhere? i know it s not. i know it s not. he he keeps saying, you know, i i didn t do anything so i don t have anything to worry about. reporter: but was he in fact on your list at that point? oh, he he was, you know. he was, he put himself with michael. well, i think you know a little bit more than you re telling me. sir, i don t. i i i ve i m giving you pearls, man. i m giving you all i got. i i ve told you guys everything i know. i know that he came over. i know exactly when he left. i know i was at my house. that s all i know. reporter: for all his questions, investigator edmunds ultimately had nothing on anthony. a failed polygraph isn t evidence, and nothing connected him to the crime. but they were still looking at michael, and there was the inevitable question of motive. sure, michael was open about his drug use, but that didn t entirely explain why he would savagely be
reporter: jurgen cowling has a story to tell about michael. becky and kay both worked for him at healing hands physical therapy center, and sometimes michael would do odd jobs at the office too. michael would come in and do some more, we had some flooring that d be put in, some carpet. and then he would come in and assist. reporter: but after a while people in the office started to notice something. we had some blank checks in in one of our offices that disappeared. reporter: becky and kay s boss says the checks went missing while michael had been doing some cleaning in the office. so i i pull becky in. she said she sat down with michael and talked about it. and, of course, michael said, yes, it was me. reporter: how much money was stolen in that incident? about 800 bucks. reporter: 800 bucks? yeah, three or four checks, about 800 bucks. reporter: and it was all michael. and he fessed up to it, huh? yes, sir. reporter: so becky must have been, what, e
you know, anthony was his his time was pretty consistent with with michael s. but we still, you know, we we didn t know if they were in this together or or what. angel was on. that s what i watch in the morning. and some you watch you watch the episode of angel wednesday morning? that hour? tell me what you no, actually, i talked to michael for pretty much the entire hour. but angel was on the boob tube. reporter: as he sat in the interview room, investigators didn t know what to make of this talkative character. so they hooked anthony up to a polygraph machine. and asked him again where he and michael were that morning. you didn t even come close to passing that polygraph. i m sorry. but i m not lying about it. i told him i d take another one. i mean i m, if i was lying, why the hell would i have said i d take it? well, stranger things have happened. i m sure. yeah. well, i m telling the truth. so it is what it is. i mean i i don t know what to te
that s all. reporter: smokin weed, or harder stuff, michael? ah, smokin weed and a little harder stuff, pills, things like that. reporter: this is methadone? yeah. uh-huh. yes, sir. reporter: with michael s presence on the scene, and drugs now in the equation, edmunds team brought him down to their substation for questioning. now, i m gonna be point-blank with ya, if you knew anything about this you would tell me right? absolutely. when was the last time you took some methadone? today. today? uh-huh. reporter: so michael had used methadone on the morning of kay parsons murder. now investigators wanted to know more about where exactly he was when the assault happened. michael said his mom becky had dropped him off at a jobsite just before 7am to do some house painting. when did ya tell your mom you had this paint job? when did you tell her you were told her a little while ago. this mornin . reporter: but here s the thing. he didn t do any house painti
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