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 becky s house next door. the master bedroom in that residence had been ransacked. so both houses had been tossed. both houses. reporter: becky s most valuable necklace and rings, gone. and as edmunds kept examining that grisly scene in the parsons garage, he determined how the burglar had assaulted kay, with a hammer, found underneath the car, and a baseball bat. so the way the weapons the appeared just describe a horrendous attack? yes, it appeared that this this hammer, you know, was used in - - in, there was so much blood, it it slipped outta the attacker s hand. and, you know, the baseball bat, which we were able to determine be
now, i m gonna be point-blank with ya, if you knew anything about this you would tell me right? absolutely. when was the last time you took some methadone? today. today? uh-huh. reporter: so michael had used methadone on the morning of kay parsons murder. now investigators wanted to know more about where exactly he was when the assault happened. michael said his mom becky had dropped him off at a jobsite just before 7am to do some house painting. when did ya tell your mom you had this paint job? when did you tell her you were told her a little while ago. this mornin . reporter: but here s the thing. he didn t do any house painting that day. and he initially lied to his mom and investigators about working. and the whole reason you lied to us was because you didn t want your mom to find out that you didn t really have a job? yes, sir. that just that blows my mind. reporter: and there was something else that really troubled investigators. if michael was the
that had spilled right there on the floor from, from mcdonald s. there was a mcdonald s bag on food bag on the floor and a purse. and i started seein signs of blood on on the sofa in the living room, on the on the carpet. and then you go into the foyer area, where 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 goin on in the garage. there was blood spatter on the walls. so she was already bleeding before she got into the garage. reporter: and that s where this apparent struggle had ended. the deputies found 41-year old kay parsons lying there on the floor. had you ever seen a scene like that? nothing
but we still, you know, we we didn t know if they were in this together or or what. angel was on. that s what i watch in the morning. and some you watch you watch the episode of angel wednesday morning? that hour? tell me what you no, actually, i talked to michael for pretty much the entire hour. but angel was on the boob tube. reporter: as he sat in the interview room, investigators didn t know what to make of this talkative character. so they hooked anthony up to a polygraph machine. and asked him again where he and michael were that morning. you didn t even come close to passing that polygraph. i m sorry. but i m not lying about it. i told him i d take another one. i mean i m, if i was lying, why the hell would i have said i d take it? well, stranger things have happened. i m sure. yeah. well, i m telling the truth. so it is what it is. i mean i i don t know what to tell you, sir. but you can i ll give you whatever you want, you know, blood. they al
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 burglaries. and he lives close by in the area. so if a computer s missing or a piece of jewelry s gone astray? if there s cars broken into you go to your frequent flyer and ask him what he knows about it, huh? if he s close by, we we definitely talk to him. so in this case, on that day, you do that, huh? we do. but we were we were able to quickly rule him out. he he had an alibi. there was no way he could be there. reporter: then from the hospita