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behind the trees and he shot me. >> what in the world was going on? >> thats what i wanted to know. >> this wife was brutally beaten. did he hire somebody? we just dont know. >> her husband had an alibi and something else, hala, a lover. >> it was shocking. we would have never expected it. >> and 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. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> you w...

She walks to the house and she confronts a monster. A young wife dead but it did not stop there. Somebody came out from behind the trees and he shot me. What in the world was going on . Thats what i wanted to know. This wife was brutally beaten. Did he hire somebody . We just dont know. Her husband had an alibi and Something Else, a lover. It was shocking. We would have never expected it. And as police got closer to the truth he says i think i know who did it. The truth got closer to home. He ju...

>> reporter: so the investigator dispatched some deputies to check out the area just a few hundred feet from kays house. >> we checked the woods. we didnt see any signs of anybody livin there, anything of that nature. and we really couldnt 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 arou...

>> 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 kays house. >> we checked the woods. we didnt see any signs of anybody livin there, anything of that nature. and we really couldnt prove or disprove there was anybody that was livin in the woods there. >> reporter: so a potential lead, dashed. but investigators had another...

Couldnt 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 whos livin around there. and we, you know, we had a frequent flyer in there that -- >> a who? >> a frequent flyer, you know. that -- thats somebody that we ...

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 whos livin around there. and we, you know, we had a frequent flyer in there that -- >> a who? >> a frequent flyer, you know. that -- thats 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 -- weve arr...

I mean, he -- he beat that woman severely, and we need to find who it was and where he was and get him off the street. >> 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 kays house. >> we checked the woods. we didnt see any signs of anybody living th...

>> 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...

>> reporter: the story of kay parsons and becky sears had now become a strange and complicated case for investigators. two best friends, victims. one killed, and the other shot outside the office where they both worked. it was juicy enough to keep this usually sleepy town wide awake for the late news. >> it was definitely the lead story. >> reporter: ashley campbell is a reporter with nbc affiliate wagt near grovetown. after becky was shot, she was working her contacts. >> i placed a call to one...

Your home? >> 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." >> reporter: you wont find mayberry r.f.d. on the map. but if close neighbors, good schools, and just plain, old civility is what youre looking for in a place to call home, you could do worse than settle in grovetown, georgia. tamara baldwin has...