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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 ...

>> reporter: investigators in grovetown, georgia, now had a murder case on their hands. kay parsons had been assaulted i 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's 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 wrong. the contractor who'd alerted 911, first man on the scene. investigators had to wonder why he was really there. >> at this point eve...

>> 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 -- nobody's 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 wrong -- the contractor who'd alerted 911 -- first man on the scene. investigators had to wonder why he was really there. >> at th...

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 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 deputi...