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the chilling case of Kay Parsons’ brutal murder.
a web of secrets and lies
as the truth behind the bloody baseball bat and the deadly motives is uncovered.
she was beaten severely , she was beaten with a claw hammer ans she was beating with a baseball bat.
you hear of crimes of passon this goes beoynd that…
a dark mystery with multiple suspects….
the truth will be revealed….
Grovetown ,Georgia,just outside augusta ,it’s known as a safe to raise a family.
but that sense of security can be dangerously misleading.
march 25,2009
the victim is identified as 41 year old kay parsons
investigators begin investigating the grizzly crime
she was beaten severely
there was a struggle that took place in the foyer.
that led into the livingroom
and you could telle it went out into the garage
there wasa bloody baseball bat next to her
and also a bloody claw hammer underneath her car.
when you talk about brutality that’s one thing but this was overkill.
detectives first task is to locate her next of king ,he was in los angeles ,california on business.
obviously he was very concerned about his wife.
he immediately got an airplane and flew home, you could tell he was distraught
he told the doctor to take her off life support.
there case is now a homicide.
david says he last spoke to kay at 6:45 p.m the night before she was attacked.
and had been unable to reach his wife by phone all morning.
with so many unanswered questions their hope rests in kay’s timeline.
kay left and took her son to school on the way to school they stopped and got some fast food for breakfirst.
she then took him to the school,dropped him off that was verified through the principal and teachers
the fastfood bag and the coffee cup on on the floor .
They learned that kay purchased the food items at 6:55 a.m. this is stablishes a 2 hours window until she is discovered.
a lot of people assumed that it was the contractor who was at the house that may have done this.
cozart tells the police he started the repair the previous afternoon and retruned at 8:45 a.m to finish the job.
when he arrived he knocked on the door didn’t get an answer he called several times didn’ get an answer
so he went to the backyard to look at the back door where he was doing his work at.
he got no response, that’s when he dialed 911.
he also claims before arriving at case house he was on another job site.
investigators look to confirm his whereabouts earlier that morning.
there were able to clear him , he was just there to do his job and happened to find this awful crime that had been committed.
but he does provide detectives with an important lead ,he said when he came back around front calling 911 .
the man is identified as kay’s neigbhor,22 year old michael bowers hwos claim appears to be true.
his house has been broke into too.
signs of blood on the back door.that bllod ended up being kay’s blood.
so if you are a criminal, a burglar ,if you just break into somebody’s house and beat this woman…eventually to death are you going to leave and go break into the house next door and hang around to get caught? that doesn’t make sense.
detectives need to speak with kay parsons neighbor michael .
who they believe may know something about her shocking murder.
as police question michael his mother becky sears and her younger son christopher turn up.
looking for insight into how michael may be involved they examined the relationship between the two houses.
from the minute that david and kay moved next door to becky and her husband they became immediate friends .
they did everything together, their sons played together,they had couples tennis, couples vacations they were inseparable hat they had with one another , almostg like sisters.
becky tells police about the last time she saw kay.
becky says she returned home as soon as she got the call from her son michael.
detectives need to uncover what michael was up to.
they took him back to their office and conducted an interview with him to found out what his story was .
michael had a trouble past,he been arrested a few times, he told detectves that he left the house that morning to go do a painting job with somebody.
they come to find out there was no painting job ,he was going to do ,he was lying about the whole thing.
caught in his lie,michael offers up a new story ….
he said he walked over to a friend’s house and pretty much hung out there for a while until his mother left and then he walked back home.
obviously he didn’t want to get in trouble with his mother because he told her he was going to do a painting job.
he called his mother at work and told her that their house had been broken into but didn’t call 911.
detectives looked to place him inside kay’s house that morning.
the back odoor the way it was shattered , there was tiny shards of glass every where.
so detectives asked michael to let them see the bootom of his shoes and they see a tiny shard of glass stuck in the bottom of the shoe.
so was he in the house?
they sent the glass off to the crime lab and it came back that it was glass from the back door.
his explenation was that once the handyman told him that the house been broken into , he walked around back and looked inside and he said that’s how he got the glass in his shoe.
michael’s only hope lies in his alibi,he tells police his friend anthony can vouch for him.
anthony also had some problems with drugs , in the back of detective’s mind thinking , did michael owe people money for drugs….
police bring anthony in for questioning
michael’s departure from anthony’s house at 8:30 a.m leaves a 15 minute to walk the mile home and attack kay before the contractor arrives at 8:45.
as a result investigators return their focus to the crime scene.
the master bedroom was ransacked.
the only thing that detectives could determine that was taken was some jewelry.
there was a lot of things that normally would be taken in a burglary that were still there.
this indicates thaat kay potentially caught the intruder in the act….
police utilize the neighborhood canvas hoping for a break.
they shot down the whole neighborhood ,there was one way in and one way out and they had patrol cars and deputies t here stopping every car that came in and came out.
one man stands out, Aaron , a person that lived in that neighborhood , he had a trouble past , he had a history ,thefts and break- ins.
a known criminal in kay parson’s neighborhood leads detectives in a new direction .
their suspect Aaron lives within sight of the parson’s home.
when questioned Aaron tells police he was at home with his girlfriend until 10 :30 a.m that mornging.
detectives were able to determine that he wasn’t involved that he had an alibi ,he wasn’t there at the time.
it’s another dead end.
meaning kay’s murderer is still at large.
the fear is realized through shocking news regarding kay’s neighbor.
with becky at the hospital she said she had went to work that night to do payroll cuz
she hadn’t been at work she had been at the hospital where kay was.
becky said she didn’t know who this person was, she never saw him before in her life and said she didn’t know what he was talking about.
and becky is convinced her shooting is linked to the break-ins and kay’s murder.
but something about becky’s story seems off.
all it did was just make becky look suspicious .
the odds of that happended and the way she said it happened it just that was astromical.
with suspicions growing around becky,detectives received a tip .
a phone call from one of the jailers at the jail.
jerry was there on a probation violation of a traffic ticket so he wasn”t in there for anything serious.
jerry porceeds to tell that he is the brother of becky sears who is the nextdoor neighbor to kay parsons.
he lived with becky at her house for a little while and eventually he moved out with his nephew christopher bowers.
jerry tells police his sister confided in him .
he goes on to tell that becky and david parson ,kay’s husband having an affair.
and that kay found out about the affair…and david parsons never told detectives about it.
kind of blew their mind .
and you’re putting these pieces of the puzzle together and it’s kind of starting to make sense now that okay, this probably was a murder based on this love triangle.
but was it kay’s husband that did it,did becky have something to do with it, somewhere in that weird web
detectives got a murderer and now they just got to figure out who and got to figure out how it happened.
information provided by bekcy’s brother jerry jacobs introduces a shocking new motive in the death of kay parsons.
becky wanted kay out of the way , she wante her dead so she could have david.
why was he telling detectivs about his sister?
jerry told detectives he was watching the news and he saw about what happened at kay’s house.
he knows some specifics about it or whatever he’s telling detectives stuff that at this point detectgives didn’t know.
detectives show jerry photograph from the scene.
in the hope he can provide further insight.
he recognized the hammer as being one that becky had.
police believe that if becky is involved, she must have had help.
jerry said he knew who did it.
he said i believe it’s going to be christopher and becky.
the accusation directs suspsicion to becky’s oldest son -christopher
chris was mama’s boy ,he was the golden child.
she was buying him motorcycles , she rented him a house , she bought a truck she didn’t do any of those things for michael.
it was a totally different relationship between those two.
christopher knew how upset she was about david ,how she wanted to be with david and she knew that christopher would do anything for her.
police returned to kay’s husband david to confront him with the affair allegations.
you’re thinking about the husband and would the husband have a motive to do it,he just happened to be out of town when this horrendous crime happened but then he opened up
he started telling all about the affair,he came out and said he cut it off and told kay it was over with.
he came forward then and told that the night before the murder that he and becky did talk on the phone.
so he’s pretty much letting detective know that the affair wasn’t over with like he told his wife.
detectives know that he was over 2,000 miles away when his wife was killed.
the only people who can answer this question are becky and christopher.
christopher didn’t say a word didn’t ask why,what for, anything he refused to speak . becky was quite the opposite,she agreed to talk with us which suprised the detectives.
she finally starts breaking down she starts crying and then she starts telling it was christopher.
convinced christopher bowers killed kay parsons,detectives continued to pressure his mother becky on what she knows of the murder.
her story was that christopher knew how upset she was about david how she wanted to be with david.
but she kept saying she didn’t know he was going to do it.
becky played the consumate victim the whole way
she then makes a strange admission….
on the morning of the murder she says she picked christopher up at 4:OO a.m.
it’s a stunning revelation
she said she received a phone call a little bit later from christopher saying come pick me up. she goes down there and picks him up and he’s covered in blood.
she asked christopher what’ you do, he said i took care of everything, i took care of it.
she said what did you do and he said i beat the fuck out of her she also told about the shooting , she told , it was christopher that shot her
the plan was christopher was supposed to just shoot the gun next to her so her friend could hear it, he wasn’t actually supposed to shoot her, which is a little poetic.
and she said she wanted to do that so they could try to throw the investigation to try tto confuse the police.
they now believe that while christopher committed the act, becky was the mastermind.
it’s remarkable ,because it shows the degree of control she had over him and just how much in many ways he actually loved his mother, that he would go along with this.
police found out real quick with that interview just how conniving and manipulating that becky actually is.
she didn’t think anything other than her and her happines and what she wanted.
becky’s statement also removes any lingering doubts over kay’s husband.
she swore up and down that david had not have any knowledge of this ,he didn’t know what was going to happen, he was not involved in any way.
on march 27th 2009 becky sears and christopher bowers are charged with murder.
they’re charged the same because they were both equally participating in the crime.
the painstaking analysis of the timeline reveals exactly what happened in the last hours of kay’s life.
kay left and took her son to school on the way to school they stopped got some fast food for breakfast and then she drove back home.
knowing kay is gone christopherr stages his ambush
when she drove back home she open the garage and then as she entered through the garage door into foyer to the house
christopher was lying and wait and immediately began to attack her with a hammer.
she tried to fight back, she literally was fighting for her life.
by the blood evidence she was able to make it to the garage and the police found a bloody handprint sliding down the garage door opener trying to open the garage door.
at some point he switches weapons then leaves kay near death
and begins to cover his tracks…
chris then stages that burglary and stages the one at becky’s house to make it kind of a cover.
it was like a burglary going bad, maybe they won’t suspect me.
then becky received a phone calla little bit later from christopher saying come pick me up
she then took christopher to her work, then they got the phone call from michael about the break-in and they drow back to the house.
michael coming home was just a coincidence,ultimately detectives determined he was not involved.
christopher is the one that actually killed kay,there’s no doubt in detectives mind he did and he did it because becky asked him to.
she’s the one that manipulated her son into being a monster.
she played on the daily routines of kay ,she knew where she was going to be,what time, when she’d back and so she used that to her advantage to get christoper in the house
have a game plan and to make it easier for him to go next door to attack her.
the district attorney decided to go after the death penalty for the charges , chris never turned on becky,chris never would say a bad word about his mother.
they both take a plea deal and they both get life in prison whitout the possibility of parole.