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 so severely in her head, it was pretty bad. reporter: but amazingly, kay was alive. e
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 was living in the woods there. reporter: so a potential lead dashed. but investigators had another. 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?
so yeah. but i didn t do any of this, man. reporter: anthony repeated over and over that he had nothing to do with kay parsons murder. didn t even know her. dude, i m trying to be as straight up with you guys as possible. i mean well, and that and that s what i want. yes, sir. i m i m not going to lie about it. i want you to catch the guy. i just i don t want you looking at me like i did the [ bleep ]. cause i ain t dude, i ain t real cool with you. i don t think it s a really you know, if you or me or or some guy got hurt, that s one thing. you know? but not a lady. you know? not somebody s mom. reporter: and he started to put the finger more on michael. he knows something. well, i don t i don t rightly know. what do you mean? what does he know? i don t know what he knows. dude, look, you re not catching me up in something. he knows something. what does he he saw something, he did something, one of the above. i would assume if michael or
now, i m going to be point-blank with ya, if you knew anything about this you would tell me, right? absolutely. when was the last time you took some methadone? today. today? uh-huh. reporter: so michael had used methadone on the morning of kay parsons murder. now investigators wanted to know more about where exactly he was when the assault happened. michael said his mom becky had dropped him off at a job site just before 7:00 a.m. to do some house painting. when did ya tell your mom you had this paint job? when did you tell her you were told her a little while ago. this morning. reporter: but here s the thing. he didn t do any house painting that day. and he initially lied to his mom and investigators about working. and the whole reason you lied to us was because you didn t want your mom to find out that you didn t really have a job? yes, sir. that just that blows my mind. reporter: and there was something else that really troubled investigators. if mic
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