investigate not one, but two burglaries. worried about her friends and neighbors kay and becky, tamara baldwin left work and headed home to what shockingly had become a crime scene. did you see lots of vehicles and uniforms and a lot of police cars, the entire corner was all taped off with crime tape. now you see two houses that i have to pass to get home, and you wonder what s goin on. reporter: and what the responders found inside these homes would put this neighborhood into full-on 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 seein spots of blood on the floor. i could see an empty coffee cup that had spilled right there on the floor from, from mcdonald s. there was a mcdonald s bag
we heard about a guy that 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 livin there, anything of that nature. and we really couldn t prove or disprove there was anybody that was livin 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 livin around there. and we, you know, we had a frequent flyer in there that a who? a frequent flyer, you know. that that s 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 we ve arrested him several times for b
their marriage. i mean my husband and i were having some problems, which we were thankfully working out. do you have any relationships on the side? i did. how long has that been? how long has it been over? yeah. three months. reporter: suddenly, added to the mix of a brutal murder and a bizarre shooting was this admission of an extra marital romance. i mean it wasn t like it was a long lasting thing. it was just a couple of months long. reporter: edmunds didn t press becky any further about the affair. a hospital room immediately following a shooting was neither the time nor the place. but the investigator was intrigued. he left becky wondering who the other man was. i knew there was somethin there. i just couldn t just couldn t figure out what yet. turned out there was? there was. yeah, there was. there was some secrets.
of course that comes to mind. i mean, of course it does. it s just too much of a coincidence. reporter: and nothing about this shooting took the heat off becky s son michael. what s the working theory? the working theory still is, michael s still pretty high up on the list. somebody s looking for some money. somebody owes somebody some money. reporter: edmunds had some tough, personal questions for becky about her son michael. thankfully the wounds to becky s legs were superficial. so edmunds grabbed his note pad, and his tape recorder, and headed to the hospital. becky, she s in the hospital bed. right. not too badly injured. not too badly injured. when i m talkin to her, she s, you know, she s really hurting. reporter: the investigator then asked becky for details about shooting. what did he say to you? who? the guy that shot you? he wanted his money or next time it would be my face. what money is he talking about? i have no idea. we did not owe anybo
gone. i mean, i hollered into the door. uh-huh. and i didn t get no response. yeah, i don t want you to go in. reporter: the contractor followed instructions, and e. within minutes, law enforcement> responded to the scene ready tos investigate two potential burglaries right next door to each other. police taped off the area. now tamara s neighbors were po calling her at work, including a kay s husband david. he was traveling on business. he asked me, have you spoken to kay? and i m, like, no, not today. i m at work. and he says, okay, i m just trying to get in touch with kay. i m in california. reporter: first responders at the scene alerted investigator jimmy edmunds with the columbia county sheriff s office. it s very unusual to have have two houses side by side, you know, hit it one time that s, you know, that same way reporter: so are you thinking, where s this guy gonna go next? correct. t i m definitely thinking, where s he at? reporter: but as edm