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. Its about to get a lot more crazy. 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 armys ft. Gordon is just down the road and a number of the citys 12,000 residents are active or retired military. Crime stats can be measured in stolen bicycles. Great place to raise a family. Reporter heres a veteran investigator for the county. Whats your crime rate . Its not that high. We dont have too much violent crime. Reporter dozens of homicides a year, would you say . No, not at all. We might have one a year. Reporter one a year . Yeah. Reporter and in march, 2009, they did have one a homicide. A bad one that sent neighbors shopping for burglar alarms and maybe fresh ammo. You wonder, whats going on . Whats happening . Reporter so many terrible things happened so quickly. So many taboos were broken on an anywhere suburban street that the mind reeled. We were so confused. We just kept praying for the families. The whole neighborhood was shocked. Reporter it began here with two houses, two best friends on a street called hot springs drive in grovetown. Kay parsons had moved into the neighborhood in 2005. She was a devoted wife to her husband, david, who worked down at ft. Gordon and an active Little League mom cheering on her 12yearold son derek. Tamara lived just down the street. Kay was a sweetheart. You never saw her upset, never saw her mad, always smiling, just a joy to be around. What kinds of things did she like to do . Well, mostly anything dealing with her son and her husband. She was very supportive, always being with them. Reporter next door to kay lived becky sears. Becky had her hands full, too. She and her husband tony had five kids, including two older sons from beckys first marriage. Shes one of those people whos very outgoing, one of those, hey, how you doing, type people. Reporter tamara got to know both, but says kay and becky really hit it off. They were best friends. They were basically inseparable. And they were together 24 7 almost. Reporter the two neighbors became peas in a pod. They worked at the same physical Therapy Center called Healing Hands. Theyd go on vacations with each other. Reporter jurgen cowling was their boss. When you think of them being around your office, what do you see them doing . Well, we all get along. You knew they were best friends because they were cutting up on each other. And then they would also tell stories about their sons baseball, especially during the baseball seasons, cause they were best friends, the sons. Reporter kay and becky even joined Weight Watchers together. And the two of them were pretty competitive at the weight watcher thing, huh . Yes, yes. Reporter whos up a pound, whos down a pound . Yes. Every day. Reporter and one day in march 2009 began like any other. Kay, the Little League mom, got up to take derek to school, and becky, the mother of five, left her house a few minutes later to drop off her kids before her workday began. All very routine. Until 8 30 a. M. , when contractor mitch cozart showed up to do some Maintenance Work on kays back door. Youre coming around the corner. You lift up the latch gate. And tell me what you see. Okay. When i walked back into the where the back door was, it was the glass was busted out. And i immediately knew they had been broken into. Reporter did you put your head inside the house and look around or call all i did reporter call out her name. I just i just stuck my head just inside just enough to holler out for her. And i didnt get no response. Reporter he tried calling kays phone. No answer there either. He came back out front and noticed a young man sitting on a rock across the street. His name was michael, the oldest of kays friend beckys five kids. Michael had overheard the contractor talking on the phone. I walked up to him. And i said, hey, did you Say Something about this house being broken into . And he was, like, yeah. And i was, like, well, mine has been, too. Reporter so now two broad daylight breakins of across the fence neighbors. Was the thief still lurking . I carry a firearm in my vehicle. And so actually i i went out and got one just in case. You know, i mean, the somebody could run out or whatever. Reporter he called 911. Yeah, the back door is broke in and the nextdoor neighbors door is broke in. Id called the owner, but shes not here. And i dont think if shes gone. I mean, i hollered into the door. Uhhuh. And i didnt get no response. Yeah, i dont want you to go in. Reporter the contractor followed instructions, and within minutes, Law Enforcement responded to the scene ready to investigate two potential burglaries right next door to each other. Police taped off the area. Now tamaras neighbors were calling her at work, including kays husband david. He was traveling on business. He asked me, have you spoken to kay . And im, like, no, not today. Im at work. And he says, okay, im just trying to get in touch with kay. Im in california. Reporter First Responders at the scene alerted investigator Jimmy Edmunds with the Columbia County sheriffs office. Its very unusual to have have two houses side by side, you know, hit at one time thats, you know, that same way. Reporter so are you thinking, wheres this guy going to go next . Correct. Im definitely thinking, wheres he at . Reporter but as edmunds turned his attention to the breakins at these two homes, he and his team discovered something ugly. She was in a pool of blood. Reporter this wasnt going to be a simple burglary. This was a violent attack with a bloody trail between the homes of two best friends and a female body lying in the garage. She was beaten so severely you couldnt even recognize her. Reporter what had happened on hot springs drive . And whose sanctuary was about to be violated next . A badly injured victim in one house. Was something worse waiting for Police Next Door . The point of entry we could see was the back door, also there and we found spots of blood on the back door. Be the you who doesnt cover your moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. Be the you who shows up in that dress. Who hugs a friend. Who is done with treatments that dont give you clearer skin. Be the you who controls your psoriasis with stelara® just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. Stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. Some serious infections require hospitalization. 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Now you see two houses that i have to pass to get home, and you wonder whats goin on. Reporter and what the responders found inside these homes would put this neighborhood into fullon panic mode. Investigator Jimmy Edmunds entered the home of kay, the Little League mom, through that shattered glass back door, the one the contractor first noticed. Then edmunds saw it, a trail of blood. Immediately, i could start seeing spots of blood on the floor. I could see an empty coffee cup that had spilled right there on the floor from mcdonalds. There was a mcdonalds bag on food bag on the floor and 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 thats where this apparent struggle had ended. The deputies found 41year 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. Emts hurried her to the hospital, her life hanging by a thread. She still had a heartbeat. But she was in a very bad way. Very, very bad way. Reporter investigator edmunds made the call to alert kays husband. He was in los angeles for work. I was able to talk to him on the phone, let him know he needed to come back here as quick as possible. So how did he take that news . He was pretty devastated. I tried not to tell him on the phone. I tried to tell him, you know, i need you need to come back. Theres been an accident, you know . But he he guessed pretty much what was going on. Reporter kays husband david booked a flight home, as investigators turned their attention to the house next door. Thats where kays friend becky the mother with five kids lived. Could there be another victim there . The point of entry we could see was the back door also there, and we found spots of blood on the back door. Reporter inside, beckys place was ransacked, but, quick relief, as they looked around there were no new victims. The blood smears theyd noted appeared to be from the crime scene next door. That means you have somebody that is brave enough, or just or just cruel enough to just just beat this woman so severely, and then is going to go next door and commit another burglary . Reporter becky had been at work that morning with her 19year old son christopher. The two of them raced home to the scene and met up with her older son michael. Theyre both there, so your mother and christopher are there . Yeah, they pulled up together at the same time with a Columbia County officer. We all walk around back to kays house, and my mom, she sounds very distraught. Shes shes screaming kays name. She shows up at her house while you were all in the backyard there . Right. They show up on scene and and theyre wondering whats going on, and theyre theyre pretty shaken up. Reporter everyone else in beckys family was accounted for, her husband tony, a long haul trucker, was away on the road, her three younger children were fine at school and day care. The investigator said beckys focus then turned to kay. Understandably she was upset. You know, she didnt know what happened to her neighbor. She just knew her neighbor had had left in an ambulance. Reporter and, in fact, edmunds says, becky was less concerned about that burglary in her own home and more anxious to get to see her neighbor. Michelle amerson is a longtime friend of becky who also lived nearby. Her sister drove becky to the hospital. She got to the hospital, you know, she was demanding to get to see her friend. She go to bedside for kay, huh . Yeah, she wanted to get there. I said, what hospital did they go to . Reporter news of the attack quickly spread to another close friend of kays, Suzanne Frazier. I hung up the phone and i was shakin, and so i called my boss and i said, i gotta go, i gotta go. And i left. Broke some laws, huh . I ran red lights, i flew. I mean, i just went. Reporter tamara rushed to the hospital too. Did you get to her bedside or no. Be able to take a look in . I did not. I just stayed in the waiting room. There were a whole lot of other people in the waiting room. But the prognosis was very bad, wasnt it . Machines were yeah. Keeping her alive at that point even, huh . Yes. Reporter the friends all kept an edgy vigil for news about kays condition, waiting for her husband to get to her bedside. Lives all changed in an instant. A Home Invasion and burglary in broad daylight. A woman fighting for her life. And now a perpetrator on the loose. You dont know whether you have a guy on the move who could be ready to bust into another house along here, right . Exactly, exactly. We dont know if we had a mad man on the loose here, you know . You settin up security on these streets . On every one of these streets, were goin to every one of these houses. Were stoppin anything that comes in or comes out of this whole neighborhood, were talking to everybody. Its your neighborhood and yeah. Theres somebody out there whos apparently a very violent person. Yes. You gotta be terribly scared. I was. 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Reporter eventually, one of kays closest friends Suzanne Frazier did get back to her bedside. Could you recognize her if you didnt know that it was her . Not really, not really. All puffed up . Very, very face was very full. Head wrapped. So i asked the nurse, i said, is she brain dead . And she didnt answer me. Reporter kay was just clinging to life, some wrenching decisions had to be made. And doctors were waiting for guidance from her husband david, who arrived back from a business trip in california. How did david seem, the husband . He seemed very distraught. He seemed very upset. You could hear him screaming through the double doors. And he said, oh, god, no, no, kay. Reporter investigator edmunds saw david too. And Law Enforcement tends to see things a little differently, especially with husbands. At the hospital you meet him in person, you see him . Right. His wifes on life support, you know. And hes pretty distraught. But i just, still, i just got a weird feeling. Something wasnt right. I couldnt tell if it was overboard or if it was just i couldnt put my finger on it but there was something that was bothering me. Reporter so even though the husband had an alibi, that out of state business trip. Hes on your radar and you both know that . Yes. So im watching him pretty, pretty close. Reporter by that point edmunds was trying to determine exactly what had happened on hot springs drive. He had his team take pictures of kay, collecting any physical evidence from that confrontation in the house. And they came up with something, a bit of human hair found under kays fingernails. It just might be from her attacker. She had defense wounds to her to her arms, to her hands. She was you know, bruises everywhere, all over her body. Reporter all indicating Something Else, kay had fought back. And whoever assaulted her had been on the prowl for something. Deputies shot video of the upstairs bedroom. It had been looted, with jewelry and other valuables missing. And they found what seemed like a similar m. O. In beckys house next door. The master bedroom in that residence had been ransacked. So both houses had been tossed. Both houses. Reporter beckys most valuable necklace and rings, gone. And as edmunds kept examining that grisly scene in the parsons garage, he determined how the burglar had a