for number one right now, okay? she s never come to me and said, would you kill kay for me? she s never said, would you kill someone for me? reporter: even after a three hour grilling gan306 michael bowers video intv i will burn you. i am telling you. reporter: michael never cracked. edmunds had to face the fact that michael was in all likelihood telling the truth. by then, they d come to believe his albi was solid. and they d figured out that the glass from the crime scene that had so suspiciously turned up on michael shoes, could be easily explained. michael had gone to look at the smashed in back door with the contractor just before police arrived. did you have anything to do with that day? if i did, i wouldn t be sitting here. did your mother ever ask you to kill kay? absolutely not. absolutely not. only thing she s ever done is just like anybody else, you know? riding in the road, somebody cut em off. oh, i wish you d drive off the face of that cliff. th
swab you got, somebody ll get caught up. 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
came home and surprised this burglar and she knew who this burglar was, he couldn t let her get away. reporter: you can almost see that little movie play out, the motivation, what happened. exactly, exactly. so we started lookin at michael pretty hard. reporter: michael told them he d gotten there around 8;30 that morning only to find his house had been burglarized and he d promptly called his mom. but he hadn t called the police, which seemed a bit strange to investigators. what s more there was no forced entry to that residence. reporter: there wasn t? there was no forced entry. reporter: that was odd too, and they were about to learn a lot more about michael. he was becky s oldest son. he and his brother chris were from a prior marriage. and michael came with a history of trouble, mostly drugs. so, that s gotta make your nose twitch a little bit. most definitely. he s on the scene when we get there. he s had a lotta problems in the past with with with drugs. s
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, em embarrassed? you could tell she was really distraught. reporter: the healing hands boss agreed with becky that he
over and over that he had nothing to do with kay parsons murder. didn t even know her. dude, i m trying to be as straight up with you guys as possible. i mean well, and that and that s what i want. that s what i want. yes, sir. i m i m not gonna lie about it. i want you to catch the guy. i just i don t want you looking at me like i did the [ bleep ]. cause i ain t dude, i ain t real cool with you. i don t think it s a really you know, if you or me or or some guy got hurt, that s one thing. you know? but not a lady. you know? not somebody s mom. reporter: and he started to put the finger more on michael. he knows something. well, i don t but i don t rightly know. what do you mean? what does he know? i don t know what he knows. dude, look, you re not catching me up in something. he knows something. what does he he saw something, he did something, one of the above. i would assume if michael or any of his people had sumpin to do with it it s for dope.