>> 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? >> a frequent flyer, you know. that somebody that we deal with all the time. you know, that -- that commit the same type of crimes, you know. we knew this guy. we've arrested him several times for burglaries. and he lives close by in the