the floor from mcdonald s. there was a mcdonald s bag on food bag on the floor and a purse. and i started seeing signs of blood on on the sofa in the living room, on the on the carpet. and then you go into the foyer area, 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 going 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
thread. she still had a heartbeat. but she was in a very bad way. very, very bad way. reporter: investigator edmunds made the call to alert kay s husband. he was in los angeles for work. i was able to talk to him on the phone, let him know he needed to come back here as quick as possible. so how did he take that news? he was pretty devastated. i tried not to tell him on the phone. i tried to tell him, you know, i need you need to come back. there s been an accident, you know? but he he guessed pretty much what was going on. reporter: kay s husband david booked a flight home, as investigators turned their attention to the house next door. that s where kay s friend becky the mother with five kids lived. could there be another victim there? the point of entry we could see was the back door also there, and we found spots of blood on the back door. reporter: inside, becky s place was ransacked, but, quick relief, as they looked around there were no new victims. the
welcome back. it was a ghastly crime. suburban mom kay parsons had been savagely beaten. leaving ago bloody trail. the suspected burglar than ransacked the house next door. kay was now fighting for her life in the hospital as police were sweeping the crime scenes for clues. what had happened in that house? and could they catch kay s attacker before he struck again? returning to our story, here s dennis murphy. reporter: friends and family gathered at the hospital keeping a vigil for kay parsons, a suburban mom who d been brutally beaten that morning in a home invasion. and while her next-door neighbor becky s home had been burglarized too, becky didn t seem to care as much about that. good friend tamara says that for becky, it was all about getting to see kay. she continues to ask, well,
go next door and commit another burglary? reporter: becky had been at work that morning with her 19-year old son christopher. the two of them raced home to the scene and met up with her older son michael. they re both there, so your mother and christopher are there? yeah, they pulled up together at the same time with a columbia county officer. we all walk around back to kay s house, and my mom, she sounds very distraught. she s screaming kay s name. she shows up at her house while you were all in the backyard there? right. they show up on scene and they re wondering what s going on, and they re pretty shaken up. reporter: everyone else in becky s family was accounted for. her husband tony, a long haul trucker, was away on the road, her three younger children were fine at school and day care. the investigator said becky s focus then turned to kay. understandably she was upset. you know, she didn t know what happened to her neighbor. she just knew her neighbor had left in a
911 . somebody came out from behind the trees and he shot me. reporter: sergeant steven douglas was the investigator 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 a vicious beating. yes. it seemed an odd set of coincidences. and this is the back door of healing hands? this is the back door of the business that we got called to. r