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And, you know, the baseball bat, which we were able to determine belonged at that house, was -- was a weapon of opportunity after he lost the first weapon. >> reporter: it looked like the little league mom was beaten with her own son derek's baseball bat. >> it really touched my soul knowing how much derek loved baseball. and i'm, like, "how in the world could someone take a baseball bat and, you know, beat her?" >> reporter: an old-fashioned dragnet remained drawn around the subdivision. find the attacker. >> you got a crazy guy on your hands. >> yeah, yeah. i mean, he -- he -- he beat that w...

>> reporter: and one day in march 2009 began like any other. kay, the little league mom, got 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. 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

There was no way he could be there. >> reporter: then from the hospital, the news everyone feared and expected. doctors determined kay's injuries were too severe for her to make it. the family decided to take her off life support. kay parsons, devoted wife to david, loving mother to derek, was gone. >> and so then they let me know that she had passed away. >> you lost your friend, kay. >> yes, yep. >> a beating death, a break-in. >> yes. >> how horrible is this for you, suzanne? >> one of the worst days of my life. i didn't expect it. 41 years old. i mean, you can see somebody dying of cancer ...

Her 12-year-old 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 becky's first marriage. >> she's one of those people who's very outgoing, one of those, "hey, how you doing," type people....

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 and...