pretty close. reporter: by that point edmunds was trying to determine exactly what had happened on hot springs drive. he had his team take pictures of kay, collecting any physical evidence from that confrontation in the house. and they came up with something, a bit of human hair found under kay s fingernails. it just might be from her attacker. she had defense wounds to her to her arms, to her hands. she was you know, bruises everywhere, all over her body. reporter: all indicating something else, kay had fought back. and whoever assaulted her had been on the prowl for something. deputies shot video of the upstairs bedroom. it had been looted, with jewelry 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
around or call d 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 i didn t get no response. reporter: he tried calling kay s phone. no answer there either. he came back out front and noticed a young man sitting on a rock across the street.ce his name was michael, the oldest of kay s friend becky s five kids. michael had overheard the contractor talking on the phone. i walked up to him. and i said, hey, did you say w something about this house being broken into? and he was, like, yeah. and i was, like, well, mine has been, too. reporter: so now two broad daylight break-ins of across the fence neighbors. was the thief still lurking? i carry a firearm in my vehicle. a so and so actually i i went out and got one just in case.an you know, the i mean, the somebody could run out or whatever.e reporter: he called 911. yeah, the back door is broke in and the next door neighbor s door
was wrong the contractor who d alerted 911 first man on the scene. investigators had to wonder why he was really there. at this point everybody s a 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 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 whe
and i started seein signs of blood on on the sofa in the living room, on the on the carpet. and then you go into the foyer area, where there was a lot of blood on the walls, on the door, on the floor. so this is suggesting a moving struggle. definitely. it looks like the homeowner came home and surprised a burglar in her house, and a struggle ensued where she was beaten. reporter: the bloody path led edmunds further into the house, to a bloody hand print on the door out to the parsons garage. and you can tell there was there was more beating goin on in the garage. there was blood spatter on the walls. so she was already bleeding before she got into the garage. reporter: and that s where this apparent struggle had ended. the deputies found 41-year old kay parsons lying there on the floor. had you ever seen a scene like that? nothing nothing that drastic, no. she was beaten so severely in her head, it was pretty bad. reporter: but amazingly, kay was alive. emt
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 her, with a firearm, demanding his money or next time it was going to be her face. reporter: that s when the assailant shot becky in the legs. the subject apparently didn t rob her, didn t take anything from her, but turned around and ran back into the bushes the way that he came. she s not known for doing the night deposits with cash. there s no cash here. exactly. not at this time of night. what s the target, what are you going to get? has to be personal. i would think so. reporter: emts transported becky