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Thats all. >> reporter: smokin weed, or harder stuff, michael? >> ah, smokin weed and a little harder stuff, pills, things like that. >> reporter: this is methadone? >> yeah. uh-huh. yes, sir. >> reporter: with michaels presence on the scene, and drugs now in the equation, edmunds team brought him down to their substation for questioning. >> now, im 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 methad...

Is -- is burglaries, you know? get the quick cash. >> reporter: did you have trouble with drugs at the time? >> i wont say trouble, but it was -- >> reporter: you were a regular customer, huh? >> i mean, it was a social thing. wed be -- being dumb and young, thats all. >> reporter: smokin weed, or harder stuff, michael? >> ah, smokin weed and a little harder stuff, pills, things like that. >> reporter: this is methadone? >> yeah. uh-huh. yes, sir. >> reporter: with michaels presence on the scene...

Was wrong -- the contractor whod alerted 911 -- first man on the scene. investigators had to wonder why he was really there. >> at this point -- everybodys a suspect, you know? you know, and logically hes 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 didnt hear nothin. >> reporter: but you also...

Here again is dennis murphy. >> 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 -- nobodys 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 wro...

Team brought him down to their substation for questioning. >> now, im 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 7...

He and his brother chris were from a prior marriage. and michael came with a history of trouble, mostly drugs. so, thats gotta make your nose twitch a little bit. >> most definitely. hes on the scene when we get there. hes had a lotta problems in the past with -- with -- with drugs. so that raised a lotta red flags. >> reporter: opportunity to get quick cash? >> most definitely. >> drug habit? make a buy? >> you know, they gotta get money. and the best way to do that is -- is burglaries, you kno...

Someone they had already met? here again is dennis murphy. >> 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 -- nobodys seen anybody, you know, out of the ordinary in the neighborhood. >> reporter: so they turned to the first person in the neighborho...

Lot more about michael. he was beckys oldest son. he and his brother chris were from a prior marriage. and michael came with a history of trouble, mostly drugs. so, thats gotta make your nose twitch a little bit. >> most definitely. hes on the scene when we get there. hes had a lot of problems in the past with drugs. so that raised a lot of red flags. >> reporter: opportunity to get quick cash? >> most definitely. >> drug habit? make a buy? >> you know, they gotta get money. and the best way to ...

>> but why would michael murder his mothers best friend? >> 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 -- nobodys seen anybody, you know, out of the ordinary in the neighborhood. >> reporter: so they turned to the first person in the neighborhoo...

School shooting in u.s. history, 17 students and staff killed. >> if we cant protect our children in schools, then who can we protect? >> reporter: that state commission highlighting security failures including routinely unlocked doors and gates allowing cruz to get inside. >> that door was unlocked and unstaffed and, that, we say, that is a security failure. >> reporter: no p.a. system to warn staff and students seen here that day crammed into a hallway. inadequate outside video cameras, one of...