you ve got a wild story and a wild theory on your hands. most definitely. i mean this case has taken so many twists and turns it s unbelievable. forget about the smash and grab and go robbery, that s gone out the window. oh, yeah. oh, yeah. we re looking at some premeditation and some planning here. reporter: but edmunds had to consider the source of the story. of course, jailhouse stories are always troublesome because they re trying to do themselves some good. definitely. reporter: one thing the brother said was easy to confirm, he didn t do the hit job. he was in jail at the time of the murder. so if becky was behind it all, who helped her? jacobs said there was another member of the family investigators should look at, becky s son chris. the young man with his own house. jerry had been staying there before he was behind bars, and said chris also knew about
and expensive divorce? she said, well, if i ever found out that david was havin an affair on me, i would be gone. she said, i would take derek, i would get half of what is in his retirement from the military. yeah. and i d get what i could get out of the account. did the community really turn on him? they did after they found out about the affair. i think there s more to the story. so now you ve got a very lethal soap opera in the midst of this thing, huh? oh yeah. you know, things things start start comin together. now you gotta wonder what s going on with david, the husband. i definitely do. is he involved in this? does he want his wife gone? you know? we gotta look at all those angles. reporter: all predictable questions. but in an investigation that was never less than startling, more twists awaited around the bend. a tale from jail. he looks at me and he says, i think i know who did it. and i said, really.
reporter: so they turned to the first person in the neighborhood to notice something 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, w
luck of bein the person to find this. yeah. yeah. yeah. reporter: so, that put you on the list also, mitch, of sure. sure, yeah reporter: people they want to get a full story from. exactly. reporter: maybe with some sharp questions, huh? yeah, exactly. i i knew better to walk in that house, you know? because i did not want anything my fingerprints anywhere in that house. because i just, you know, watched enough tv to know better. reporter: what d you what d you see in him in terms of demeanor? he seemed pretty genuine to me. he was pretty shaken up. reporter: so investigators knocked the contractor off their list but in his interview he helped point them to someone else that boy on the rock. then i seen that boy sittin the next-door neighbor sittin down on a rock across the street. and that made me kinda suspicious right there, cause i be i said i said, i wonder if this guy s a lookout. right? i mean, he might be still you know, somethin
reporter: it was a stunning revelation. a real doozy. a love sick woman plotting to kill her best friend and next door neighbor so she could have her friend s husband all to herself. you ve got a wild story and a wild theory on your hands. most definitely. i mean this case has taken so many twists and turns it s unbelievable. forget about the smash and grab and go robbery, that s gone out the window. oh yeah. oh yeah. we re looking at some premeditation and some planning here. reporter: but edmunds had to consider the source of the story. of course, jailhouse stories are always troublesome because they re trying to do themselves some good. definitely. reporter: one thing the brother said was easy to confirm, he didn t do the hit job. he was in jail at the time of the murder. so if becky was behind it all, who helped her? jacobs said there was another member of the family investigators should look at, becky s son chris. the young man with his own house. jerry had been