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 you also have to ask him if that s really what happened.
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baseball. and i m, like, how in the world could someone take a baseball bat and, you know, beat her? reporter: an old-fashioned dragnet remained drawn around the subdivision. you got a crazy guy on your hands. yeah, yeah. 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,