they d go on vacations with each other. reporter: jurgen cowling was their boss. when you think of them being around your office, what do you see them doing? well, we all get along. you knew they were best friends because they were cutting up on each other. and then they would also tell stories about their sons baseball, especially during the baseball seasons, cause they were best friends, the sons. reporter: kay and becky even joined weight watchers together. and the two of them were pretty competitive at the weight watcher thing, huh? yes, yes. reporter: who s up a pound, who s down a pound? yes. every day. reporter: and one day in march 2009 began like any other. kay, the little league mom, got up to take derek to school, and becky, the mother of five, left her house a few minutes later to drop off her kids before her workday began. all very routine. until 8:30 a.m., when contractor mitch cozart showed up to do some maintenance work on kay s back door. you re com
luck of bein the person to find this. yeah. yeah. yeah. reporter: so, that put you on the list also, mitch, of sure. sure, yeah reporter: people they want to get a full story from. exactly. reporter: maybe with some sharp questions, huh? yeah, exactly. i i knew better to walk in that house, you know? because i did not want anything my fingerprints anywhere in that house. because i just, you know, watched enough tv to know better. reporter: what d you what d you see in him in terms of demeanor? he seemed pretty genuine to me. he was pretty shaken up. reporter: so investigators knocked the contractor off their list but in his interview he helped point them to someone else that boy on the rock. then i seen that boy sittin the next-door neighbor sittin down on a rock across the street. and that made me kinda suspicious right there, cause i be i said i said, i wonder if this guy s a lookout. right? i mean, he might be still you know, somethin
you know, and logically he s the first one. reporter: edmunds brought him down to the substation for questioning, and they went through the story he had told at the scene. it was an and i walked down to the hall and i said, hey, is anybody in there? and anyway i didn t hear nothin . reporter: but you also have to ask him if that s really what happened. yes. reporter: i mean, he s the guy who discovers this violent criminal act, and you wonder if he knows more than he s saying. oh, definitely. reporter: they pressed him to find out more about just what work he was to do there, and whether he had worked for kay parsons before. did you have the key have the door open to the house? to do the work? well, we we was mostly outside. the loneliest time that we was really on the inside is when she called me up and said, i need a little bit fixed on the inside. reporter: you had the bad luck of bein the person to find this. yeah. yeah. yeah. reporter: so, th
around your office, what do you see them doing? well, we all get along. you knew they were best friends because they were cutting up on each other. and then they would also tell stories about their sons baseball, especially during the baseball seasons, cause they were best friends, the sons. reporter: kay and becky even joined weight watchers together. and the two of them were pretty competitive at the weight watcher thing, huh? yes, yes. reporter: who s up a pound, who s down a pound? yes. every day. reporter: and one day in march 2009 began like any other. kay, the little league mom, got up to take derek to school, and becky, the mother of five, left her house a few minutes later to drop off her kids before her workday began. all very routine. until 8:30 a.m., when contractor mitch cozart showed up to do some maintenance work on kay s back door. you re coming around the corner. you lift up the latch gate. and tell me what you see. okay. when i walked back into the w
suspect, you know? you know, and logically he s the first one. reporter: edmunds brought him down to the substation for questioning, and they went through the story he had told at the scene. it was an and i walked down to the hall and i said, hey, is anybody in there? and anyway i didn t hear nothing. reporter: but you also have to ask him if that s really what happened. yes. reporter: i mean, he s the guy who discovers this violent criminal act, and you wonder if he knows more than he s saying. oh, definitely. reporter: they pressed him to find out more about just what work he was to do there, and whether he had worked for kay parsons before. did you have the key have the door open to the house? to do the work? well, we we was mostly outside. the only time that we was really on the inside is when she called me up and said, i need a little bit fixed on the inside. reporter: you had the bad luck of being the person to find this. yeah. yeah. yeah. reporter