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 money is he talking about? i have no idea. we did not owe anybody any money. does michael? not that i know of. i don t want you dead next. i don t think michael knows. unless he owes money from the past, i don t think he owes any money now. reporter: to edmunds, becky sounded like a mom unwilling or unable to wrap her head around the possibility of her son s involvement in a murder. i think he s trying to stay away from all of that to get out to better himself. reporter: edmunds spun through the possibilities was becky in denial? was she covering up for her son? or was he heading down the wrong path with michael altogether. he decided to cast a wider net.
i m like, yeah. i was like, david again? he s like, yeah, david again. he s like, she just needs kay out of her life bad. you know? stuff like that. reporter: now that was a shocker. investigators had had their eye on becky s other son michael from the get-go. i was surprised to hear it that way. i was surprised to hear that it was michael, really cause, you know, i ve been learning so many things about michael and and his past and all of that. you haven t had any discussions with michael about like you ve had with with christopher? not like with christopher, no. no. cause me and christopher are a little bit closer than me and michael. do you know if she ever talked to michael about it? no, i don t. have a seat right here. reporter: still, edmunds decided it was time to bring in michael for a second round of questioning. and this time, the investigator turned up the heat. michael, it s over, okay? i m not playing games anymore. reporter: at first, mi
and, you know, the baseball bat, which we were able to determine belonged at that house, was was a weapon of opportunity after he lost the first weapon. reporter: it looked like the little league mom was beaten with her own son derek s baseball bat. it really touched my soul knowing how much derek loved baseball. and i m, like, how in the world could someone take a baseball bat and, you know, beat her? reporter: an old-fashioned dragnet remained drawn around the subdivision. find the attacker. you got a crazy guy on your hands. yeah, yeah. i mean, he he he beat that woman severely, and we need to find who it was and where he was and and get him off the street. reporter: some residents mentioned a mysterious figure they had seen recently. we heard about a guy that that supposedly a homeless guy that was livin in the woods around there somewhere. reporter: so the investigator dispatched some deputies to check out the area just a few hundred feet from kay s
reporter: and one day in march 2009 began like any other. kay, the little league mom, got 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. kay parsons had moved into the neighborhood in 2005. she was a devoted wife to her husband, david, who worked down at ft. gordon and an active little league mom cheering on
there was no way he could be there. reporter: then from the hospital, the news everyone feared and expected. doctors determined kay s injuries were too severe for her to make it. the family decided to take her off life support. kay parsons, devoted wife to david, loving mother to derek, was gone. and so then they let me know that she had passed away. you lost your friend, kay. yes, yep. a beating death, a break-in. yes. how horrible is this for you, suzanne? one of the worst days of my life. i didn t expect it. 41 years old. i mean, you can see somebody dying of cancer or, you know, in a car wreck or something like that, but to be beaten beyond anything. did you go back? yeah. yeah. you said goodbye to kay? as much as i could. 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, kay and becky, someone who had been right ther