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 is goin on here. reporter: michael, becky s 22 year old son from next door. remember, he was also on the scene that morning when deputies arrived. a neighbor and familiar face to kay, the victim. that got edmunds thinking. i thought, you know, if she 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 inves
time between 7:10am and 7:20am 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 we pull anthony in and we we interview him and and anthony s, he 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 said he was gonna come over. how long was he there? till from when he got there, which was rough
in an intense interrogation he was about to tell all. here again is dennis murphy. for investigators in grove town, georgia, it had been one wild story after another. now they were hearing becky orchestrated kay s murder, all for the love of kay s husband, david. the next question was the logical one, what did the husband know? you ve obviously got to look at the husband. you know, she s havin an affair with the husband. the wife s dead. you know, you gotta look at the husband as well. reporter: reporter ashley campbell said the community was thinking the same thing. and david being away in california at the time of kay s murder didn t seem to absolve him. you know, oh, how convenient. he s in california. and his wife is brutally
found chris in front of the home becky had bought for him packing his truck for a weekend getaway. did he ask what was going on? no. didn t really say anything. put him in the car, we take him up to our office and put him in the interview room. everything s not happened the way you said it happened, so i want you to really think long and hard and tell me you re a young man right now. basically you just called me a liar. reporter: chris, no longer shaking, defiantly asked for a lawyer. i want to speak to a lawyer right now . as soon as we read him his rights, he clammed up. so he s lawyered up, chris. he s lawyered up. reporter: for investigator edmunds, the puzzle pieces had finally fallen into place. becky had the motive to kill kay and chris, with his devotion to his mother and access to the murder weapon, was her means. go ahead and stand up, place your hands behind your back.
in grovetown, georgia, it had been one wild story after another. now they were hearing becky orchestrated kay s murder, all for the love of kay s husband, david. the next question was the logical one, what did the husband know? you ve obviously got to look at the husband. you know, she s havin an affair with the husband. the wife s dead. you know, you gotta look at the husband as well. reporter: reporter ashley campbell said the community was thinking the same thing. and david being away in california at the time of kay s murder didn t seem to absolve him. you know, oh, how convenient. he s in california. and his wife is brutally beaten. did he hire somebody? we just don t know. reporter: of course, david had been on edmunds radar from the moment investigators first met him outside kay s hospital room and thought he was acting strange. i knew there was something there. i just couldn t just couldn t