she was leaving work that evening. and had apparently been shot in the process. do you know where you re hit at? my legs. reporter: the location of the shooting sounded familiar. what s the name of your office? it s healing hands physical therapy. reporter: so did the name of the victim. what s your name? becky sears. reporter: becky sears, the best friend and co-worker of murder victim kay parsons. that is kind of a holy cow moment. this is the same woman next door to this house where there d been a vicious beating. yes. it seemed an odd set of coincidences. so this is the back door of healing hands? this is the back door of the business that we got called to. reporter: as the sergeant pulled up to the scene, he learned becky had been working late on the company payroll. she was heading to her car when she was jumped. apparently when she had turned around, an unknown male subject wearing dark clothes and a white baseball cap rushed out of the bushes at he
reporter: now the stakes quickly became much higher for this investigation. kay parsons had been murdered. and edmunds started thinking this killer might just be someone who knew both women, becky and kay. someone who had been right there at the scene of the crime. coming up police take a closer look at becky s son michael. he discovers his mother s house broken into. he s on the scene when we get there. he s, you know, had a lotta problems in the past, so that raised a lotta red flags. reporter: but why would michael murder his mother s best friend? his mother s best friend and you re gonna s ing. is ? -i know, it s not much, but it s home. right, kids? -kids? -papa, papa! -[ laughs ] -you didn t tell me your friends were coming.
who had apparently been the victim of an armed robbery as she was leaving work that evening. and had apparently been shot in the process. do you know where you re hit at? my legs. reporter: the location of the shooting sounded familiar. what s the name of your office? it s healing hands physical therapy. reporter: so did the name of the victim. what s your name? becky sears. reporter: becky sears, the best friend and co-worker of murder victim kay parsons. that is kind of a holy cow moment. this is the same woman next door to this house where there d been a vicious beating. yes. it seemed an odd set of coincidences. so this is the back door of healing hands? this is the back door of the business that we got called to. reporter: as the sergeant pulled up to the scene, he learned becky had been working late on the company payroll. she was heading to her car when she was jumped. apparently when she had turned around, an unknown male subject wearing dark cloth
reporter: then just 36 hours into the murder investigation another attack. this time a shooting. just ten miles from the crime scene on hot springs drive. 911 . somebody came out from behind the trees and he shot me. reporter: sergeant steven douglas was dispatched to the scene. my partner and i received a phone call from the road patrol division in reference to a woman who had apparently been the victim of an armed robbery as she was leaving work that evening. and had apparently been shot in the process. do you know where you re hit at? my legs. reporter: the location of the shooting sounded familiar. what s the name of your office? it s healing hands physical therapy. reporter: so did the name of the victim. what s your name? becky sears. reporter: becky sears, the best friend and co-worker of murder victim kay parsons. that is kind of a holy cow moment. this is the same woman next door to this house where there d been
didn t you? we did indeed. reporter: but those questions would be left for jimmy edmunds, whose investigation into kay parsons s murder had suddenly become a lot more complex. here i ve got two neighbors, you know, one has been beaten to death and the other one has just gotten shot. and they both worked at healing hands. do you believe that the gunman who has wounded becky is 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 recor