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Watcher thing, huh? >> yes, yes. >> reporter: who's up a pound, who's down a pound? >> yes. every day. >> reporter: and one day in march 2009 began like any other. 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. all very routine. until 8:30 a.m., when contractor mitch cozart showed up to do some maintenance work on kay's back door. you're coming around the corner. you lift up the latch gate. and tell me what you see. >> okay. when i walked back into the -- where the back...

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. >> you got a crazy guy on your hands. >> yeah, yeah. 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 s...

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 living around there. and we, you know, we had a frequent flyer in there that -- >> a who? >> a frequent flyer, you know. that 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'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 astra...

A bad one. that sent neighbors shopping for burglar alarms and maybe fresh ammo. >> you wonder, "what's going on? what's happening?" >> reporter: so many terrible things happened so quickly. so many taboos were broken on an anywhere suburban street that the mind reeled. >> we were so confused. we just kept praying for the families. >> the whole neighborhood was shocked. >> reporter: it began here with two houses, two best friends on a street called hot springs drive in grovetown. kay parsons had moved into the neighborhood in 2005. she was a devoted wife to her husband, david, who worked down ...

Young man who lived just around the corner from kay parsons' home. >> we look at our neighborhood and see who's living around there. and we, you know, we had a frequent flyer in there that -- >> a who? >> a frequent flyer, you know. that 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'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 ...