her 12-year-old son derek. tamara lived just down the street. kay was a sweetheart. you never saw her upset, never saw her mad, always smiling, just a joy to be around. what kinds of things did she like to do? well, mostly anything dealing with her son and her husband. she was very supportive, always being with them. reporter: next door to kay lived becky sears. becky had her hands full, too. she and her husband tony had five kids, including two older sons from becky s first marriage. she s one of those people who s very outgoing, one of those, hey, how you doing, type people. reporter: tamara got to know both, but says kay and becky really hit it off. they were best friends. they were basically inseparable. and they were together 24/7 almost. reporter: the two neighbors became peas in a pod. they worked at the same physical therapy center called healing hands. they d go on vacations with each other. reporter: jurgen cowling was their boss. when you think of the
and other valuables missing. and they found what seemed like a similar m.o. in becky s house next door. the master bedroom in that residence had been ransacked. so both houses had been tossed. both houses. reporter: becky s most valuable necklace and rings, gone. and as edmunds kept examining that grisly scene in the parsons garage, he determined how the burglar had assaulted kay, with a hammer, found underneath the car, and a baseball bat. so the way the weapons the appeared just describe a horrendous attack? yes, it appeared that this this hammer, you know, was used and there was so much blood, it slipped out of the attacker s hand. 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 i
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 where the back door was, it was the glass was busted out. and i immediately knew they had been broken into. reporter: did you put your head inside the house and look around or call all i did reporter: call out her name. i just i just stuck my head just inside just enough to holler out for her. and i didn t get no response. reporter: he tried calling kay s phone. no answer there either. he came bac
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. you got a crazy guy on your hands. yeah, yeah. i mean, he he beat that woman severely, and we need to find who it was and where he was and get him off the street. reporter: some residents mentioned a mysterious figure they had seen recently. we heard about a guy 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 house. we checked the woods. we didn t see any signs of anybody living there, anything of that nature. and we really couldn t prove or disprove there was anybody that w
unlikely as it may seem, tiny grovetown, georgia, has a few usual suspects, including a young man who lived just around the corner from kay parsons home. we look at our neighborhood and see who s living around there. and we, you know, we had a frequent flyer in there that a who? a frequent flyer, you know. that somebody that we deal with all the time. you know, that that commit the same type of crimes, you know. we knew this guy. we ve arrested him several times for burglaries. and he lives close by in the area. so if a computer s missing or a piece of jewelry s gone astray? if there s cars broken into you go to your frequent flyer and ask him what he knows about it, huh? if he s close by, we we definitely talk to him. so in this case, on that day, you do that, huh? we do. but we were we were able to quickly rule him out. he had an alibi. there was no way he could be there. reporter: then from the hospital, the news everyone feared and expected. doctors