this was after 8:00 p.m. last night. at first, houston area police thought that the unidentified woman with the long hair was a mother abandoning her child. but this morning, a reporter at our local station in the city helped crack the case. that s my son. reporter: discovering that the boy s father lived at the house next door. who was watching him normally? he was with his mother. reporter: police say the mother, who had custody of the child, was supposed to bring 2-year-old royal prince simmons to his biological father s house wednesday afternoon. but mom ended up in the hospital. the woman in the video is the mother s friend, dropping the child off in the dark, hours late, at the wrong home and then speeding away. had she waited just seven more seconds, the homeowner would have opened the door and maybe would have started a conversation, a dialogue, to direct her to the correct house to drop the child off. reporter: police tonight say they re charging the friend with
a major conflict the victorian fortress is a listed building owned by rock star jimmy page. the led zeppelin icon has lived here almost fifty years and was happy until another music legend turned up and wanted to start digging below ground. robbie williams bought the house next door for his growing family he has plans to build an underground swimming pool under his garden. but jimmy page thinks the project will cause irreparable damage to his house. he s been fighting the project for five years he lodged a complaint with the local council and asked them to refuse planning permission. he likes his home too much. i ve got to protect the building of. it it s a very special building and it s really difficult to be able to talk about it
mode. investigator jimmy edmunds entered the home of kay, the little league mom, through that shattered glass back door, the one the contractor first noticed. then edmunds saw it, a trail of blood. immediately, i could start seeing spots of blood on the floor. i could see an empty coffee cup that had spilled right there on 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 gar
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. emts hurried her to the hospital, her life hanging by a 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
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 blood smears they d noted appeared to be from the crime scene next door. that means you have somebody that is brave enough, or just or just cruel enough to just just beat this woman so severely, and then is going to 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 she s screaming kay s name. she shows up at her house while you were all in the backyard there? right.