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?
but why would michael murder his mother s best friend? reporter: investigators in grovetown, georgia, now had a murder case on their hands. kay parsons had been assaulted and killed in a home invasion. and the house of her good friend becky next door had been ransacked too. is your door to door, your canvassing, coming up with anything? no. nobody nobody s seen anybody, you know, out of the ordinary in the neighborhood. 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 nothing. reporter: but
reporter: the story of kay parsons and becky sears had now become a strange and complicated case for investigators. two best friends, victims. one killed, and the other shot outside the office where they both worked. it was juicy enough to keep this usually sleepy town wide awake for the late news. it was definitely the lead story. reporter: ashley campbell is a reporter with nbc affiliate wagt near grovetown. after becky was shot, she was working her contacts. i placed a call to one of the columbia county investigators and just to find out, you know, what is going on, like, what s the connection here? and he just told me, hold on.
your home? two times. it was shocking, would have never expected it. as police got closer to the truth he says, i think i know who did it. the truth got closer to home. he just told me, hold on. it s about to get a lot more crazy. reporter: you won t find mayberry r.f.d. on the map. but if close neighbors, good schools, and just plain, old civility is what you re looking for in a place to call home, you could do worse than settle in grovetown, georgia. tamara baldwin has lived here for 14 years. you see the children outside playing, having a good time. just a nice, quiet place that you want to move and take your family to. reporter: the way we think america used to be, and seems to be harder and harder to find, huh? yeah. the army s ft. gordon is just
in grovetown, georgia, it had been one wild story after another. now they were hearing becky orchestrated kay s murder, all for the love of kay s husband, david. the next question was the logical one, what did the husband know? you ve obviously got to look at the husband. you know, she s havin an affair with the husband. the wife s dead. you know, you gotta look at the husband as well. reporter: reporter ashley campbell said the community was thinking the same thing. and david being away in california at the time of kay s murder didn t seem to absolve him. you know, oh, how convenient. he s in california. and his wife is brutally beaten. did he hire somebody? we just don t know. reporter: of course, david had been on edmunds radar from the moment investigators first met him outside kay s hospital room and thought he was acting strange. i knew there was something there. i just couldn t just couldn t