Murder Next Door

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This is Orchard Hill subdivision.

“We're probably the best kept secret in Colombia County, Georgia.”

It's pretty secluded off the main highway, and there's really only one way in and one way out.

This is a quiet neighborhood, kind of the all-American life that you would want.

Like a gate of community throughout the gate, it's nice little area. [music playing] There's one of the original people that moved into this neighborhood 30 years ago. The neighbors all know each other. We hang out together.

We cook together. We go out to eat together. If somebody's got girl scout cookies for sale, we know about it. If there is power outage, we know about it. If the cable goes out, we know about it.

Hey, Donnie. You guys kind of wave around here to your neighbors. All the time. I love this place. What can I say?

We do have a neighborhood watch sign. We put that up after that incident happened. That shocked our neighborhood. Head up to that point. I can't even remember any crime.

It does make you question.

“It's a bourbon life when something like this happens.”

You really don't know what secrets somebody living next door could be holding. [music playing] In emergency number one. Yes, I know what it is.

I have several springs in the orchard here. The back door is broken. I can go ahead and do some work. I just want to run the back. I'm talking to David.

The stuff is broken. I'm going to back. I just ran it out. And then I got to get the police over here. Early in the morning of March 25th,

there had been a repairman who had gone to the home. Look at it in orchard hill subdivisions. And was there to do some work. He knocked on the front door. No one ever came to the door.

He was trying to get the homeowner on the phone. And he couldn't do that. Eventually he walked around to the back door and realized that the glass door had been shattered and had been broken.

You believe something was obviously very wrong here. I told the owner of this. She'd not here. I don't think. If she's down.

I mean, I hollowed it in the door. I didn't have to get no response. Yeah, I wanted to go in. I got him on over there. Initially, another officer got the call

and he needed a backup. I got on the radio and I said, I was close. I'll back him up. So when I pulled up, he was in the back.

I never would have expected this to turn out the way it did.

“And as you're walking up this way, what do you see?”

The right side of that glass door at the time was shattered. So I knew something was up. When you declared building, you always used to at a time at least. So he was waiting on me.

I said, if you've been in, he said, no. I said, you're ready. He goes, yeah. So we started going to residence. He cramps the investigators. We're videoing the scene.

Trying to document every piece of evidence we had. There's glass on the floor. And you see in the living room, there was a blood trail. I went from the glass door and further he went into the residence.

The heavier the blood trail got. And at an angle at the corner to where a door was. We didn't know at the time, but that door led to the garage. That blood trail was telling me this is going to be bad. We slowly opened the door.

We found a female laying on the ground. She was wedged up between the right front tire of the vehicle. And the motorcycle. There was a lot of blood. A lot of blood everywhere.

Both of us call and said, we need an ambulance. And we need them in hurry. We're trying to take care of the victim. We didn't know who she was. We were able to determine the victim most gay portions.

She lived there with her husband, David Parsons.

What condition is she in? We checked for a pulse. We thought we had one.

“That's why we were called for an ambulance as fast as possible.”

Her face and head. You can tell it's been beaten. She was gurgling at the time. Coming from the mouth and her nose. Kay Parsons.

It appears to have these defensive wounds. It was like she was in a fight for her life. She's been attacked. For what reason we don't know yet. But she's been attacked and she's been massively and brutally attacked.

You're, I'm guessing, inches from her. Yeah.

We're trying to talk to her.

She can talk at all. Nothing. We kept saying, "Man, can you hear me? Can you hear me?" Say something.

She couldn't say anything. The injuries were too bad. She was barely alive. So they put her an ambulance when straight to the hospital. It sounds like at that moment your whole point is I want to save this person's life.

Yeah. Yeah. It's a gut-rich and experienced. Do you find anyone else in the house? No.

The crime scene guys are walking through and trying to make an assessment of exactly what happened. Where was she going to go? Over there? Right there. Right front time.

Her head was up against the right front tire. Okay. She was in a field position in the leg ground. Well, I got to the scene. I could see her handprint on the garage door opener.

“That's why she's trying to open the garage to get away from whoever this person is.”

There's a baseball bat right beside the motorcycle. It has blood on the baseball bat. Then on the ground, you see a claw hammer. And it was blood all over the claw hammer. Anything is a possibility.

You rotate everything. And there are noticing things like rooms being ransacked. And drawers being turned out that would indicate a burglary. There were some jewelry missing from their house. The mattresses are flipped up off the bed.

I thought it was a burglary that it went wrong. They thought nobody was going to be home. And they didn't want to get caught. So they did something to the victim. K Parsons had come home from taking her son to school that morning.

She was still drinking her coffee when she was attacked with from within her home. I noticed there was a fur sale sign on the front yard. We did stand out of my mind that they were trying to sell their house and move. It was like, all right. Well, did they come to the house to view it?

Or was it just a random break-in? It could have been one of a thousand different things that happened. We determined that those bat and a claw hammer were the actual weapons that were used against K. That hammer did not come from that house. That's the struggle went out into the garage.

We believe that the hammer had so much blood on it. It flew out of the killer's hand. And then he picked up a weapon of opportunity. A aluminum baseball bat. The baseball bat belonged to K Parsons son.

Detectives are there investigating the scene. But K, she gets rushed to the hospital. There was some hope that she was going to be able to pull through and tell investigators who did this to her.

And while we're investigating, we learn a second burglary next door.

Naturally, the next Renee were being burglarized. This is going to be a pretty significant item of interest to them. We got a burglary two different places right next door. It was like, wait a minute. Things like this just don't happen every day.

A nice quaint neighborhood. The neighbors were just shocked.

“Could there be somebody on the loose that is attacking women in their homes?”

[music] Broke town area, woman is badly beaten. Now definitely is trying to find out who did it. Investigators say, but tact, after she walks in on her home being burglarized. Investigators aren't sure whether or not the burglary in progress was random or not.

There were so many sheriff's deputies, so many investigators. And so I knew whatever this was was big. There were definitely a sense in the air that something terrible had happened. Law enforcement noted that there was blood all over the forest, all over the walls. It was very apparent that this was a very violent attack.

I've been in law enforcement for 30 years, and this is probably one of the worst scenes I've ever seen. Kate Parsons was still alive, but barely. She was cleaning the life, and was actually transported down the hospital. I learned from a neighbor that Kate has been David Parsons. She was out of town business. He's in Los Angeles, and we're in Georgia.

So I call him on the phone. He starts to get kind of frantic. I explained to him that she hadn't beaten severely, and she was in the hospital. And that he needed to come home immediately. Tired top story on News 12 for the time.

Investigators do not have a suspect at this time. While they look for clues, neighbors are on edge.

I was the first reporter on the scene.

There was a blonde woman that had a blanket around her shoulders. So I realized that she was somehow a victim in this. I found out her home had been burglarized that she was the next door neighbor, Becky Sears. Becky Sears and Kate Parsons were a real good friends with one another.

“What Becky arrived, of course, it's like what's going on? What's happening?”

She gets out of her car, and she starts hysterically calling for Kate. She was asking me whether Kate was alive, is she okay? Is she going to live? The neighbors were just shocked. The consensus was this is unheard of. Nothing like this would happen here. Grave Town, Georgia is a quiet suburban area.

In Grave Town, we have very little crime. It's a very good place to raise a family. Most of our crime was he will break into collars or things of that nature. It is very safe. It's not far from Fort Gordon, which is the military base. So a lot of military families live in the area.

So Grave Town, Georgia, it's about 20 minutes from Augusta, Georgia, and Augusta, Georgia is famous. Augusta, Georgia is where they hold the masters. It's here, everybody, more than 40,000 fans expected to pour through the gates of Augusta National for the masters. It's one of the most famous golf tournaments in the world. Once a week, every year in Augusta, there is one story, and that's the masters.

If you mention Augusta, Georgia, the first thing somebody is going to ask you is,

"Have you ever been to the masters?" In my case, yes, I have been twice.

“I'm David Durkey, my wife and I moved here in 1995.”

It's quiet, most of the streets end up in cul-de-sac, so there's not a lot of fruit traffic. Well, the neighbors all know each other. This Parsons was blonde-headed, she was attractive, and when she was driving her red sports car, she would turn heads. Kay and her husband, David, have lived in Grave Town, Georgia, for about four years. Kay and David Parsons had been high school sweethearts.

They had moved around the country for David's work in the military, and had recently planted roots there in Grave Town, and he had taken a contract job at Fort Gordon. Kay Parsons had one son who was in middle school at the time. She worked at a local therapy office.

I'm just gonna go see you back a little bit. There you go, perfect. My name is Jürgen Cowling, I'm the president and owner of Healing Hands Physical Therapy Clinics. I've been doing physical therapy for 40 plus years. We hired Kay as a front desk patient coordinator.

Kay was very open and very personal.

“You can tell that she loved her family, she loved her son, she loved the life she was living.”

Kay was like, "You're a little league mom."

Her son was playing baseball, and she would always inform us of how he did.

All they wanted, or they lost, she was very proud of her son. Kay Parsons next door neighbor Becky had a son about the same age as Kay Parsons son, and Kay and Becky got to know each other through Little League. They got to be such good friends. The Becky actually got her a job at that therapy center.

Becky said, "If we need another individual, I have somebody in mind." And it was Kay. They were best buds. I mean, gosh, they lived close together. Their sons played baseball together.

They did everything together. Work, home, all of it. They did weight watchers together. It was like her and Kay went on this weight loss journey together. They had like a competition.

Hey, I lost 10 pounds this week. How many did you lose? Becky and Kay did go on vacations together. Becky and Kay went on a cruise together. Becky was telling us all the party and her and Kay did on this cruise.

It was like they had the best time of their life. But now Kay has been brutally attacked. And Becky lives next door, her house has been burglarized. The Becky lived there where there has been Tony and they have five children. The two oldest are from a previous marriage.

But thankfully, no one was home at the time. Carams in investigators to videotape of the house. It's the similar to Kay's house. The mattresses were flipped away off the beds. Trust the drawers pulled out.

Long worse, when it believed that this was some sort of opportunist that is going house to house, burglarizing next door neighbors. We heard on the news. That Kay was attacked. We were like, oh my word.

41-year-old Loverne Parsons, who goes by the name Kay, was beaten after she returned to find someone in her home. Best of Gators believed Parsons won't be in on a burglarine. At home, burglarine turned violent. I remember the next day seeing Becky.

She was just in tears.

She was going straight to the hospital.

“My heart broke for her because that was essentially her best friend.”

The doctor's pretty much telling me that it's not looking good. When I talked to Kay's husband, David Parsons, I don't know what it was. It was just something that was not on. I mean, it just wasn't right.

And another person detectives want to talk to that contractor who was there that morning. Yeah, I do anything in the world, man. Oh, I know you. He told me that there was a man sitting across the street

just sitting there staring at the houses. He kind of thought that was weird. Let me tell her suspicious. It's a brutal attack that started as a home burglarine. It happened sometime before 9 a.m. this morning on Hot Springs Drive.

Investigators aren't sure whether or not the burglarine in progress was random or not. The neighborhood was so frightened. Right. It's not just this neighborhood, but all the Grove Town.

Really was worried. There could still be someone out there burglarizing homes and attacking people. Everybody in the neighborhood circling up the wagons making sure that the doors are locked.

Kay Parsons has been a David arrived back in Georgia. I went to the hospital and spoke to him at the hospital. That's when he told me that thanks to it weren't looking good for Kay.

Kay was basically brain dead and being kept alive by machines.

And you can see the tears in his eyes. He had to make the decision full of plug and he did. A Columbia County woman badly beaten in her home has died from her injuries 41-year-old Kay Parsons with a tattoo. One Kay passed and he kind of took my breath away.

“And I remember going just sitting down in silence for about 10-15 minutes”

because it was just so overwhelming. I just couldn't comprehend or what transpired. Everything really ramped up a lot from there. Basically, there is a murderer on the loose. One of the first things that we try to do is to narrow down a time frame for the incident.

We were able to determine that she dropped her son off at school at 703. And at 720, she stopped answering her phone. Basically, we were able to wiggle it down to about a 10-15 minute time period for when the attacker occurred. We're going to kind of a canvas.

You go throughout the area of the neighborhood and you go knock on doors. Did you see anything? Did you hear anything? There were police all up and down the entrance to our neighborhood asking what people had seen or if anything unusual had taken place that day. We didn't really come up with a whole lot during the canvas.

We're left pretty quick with a who-done-it.

When anybody can be a suspect, then the first people you got to look out

“of the ones at the right, they're called in the little closed circle.”

Those right around the victims. Of course, the husband is one of the persons that is looked at. Initially, when I taught the David, I don't know what it was. It was just, I had a gut feeling. It was something that was unknown.

I mean, it just wasn't right. That I wasn't getting all the information I should be getting from him. But we were able to verify that he was in Los Angeles. We knew he could have done it. When law enforcement is trying to consider if anybody had some reason

or probably with Miss Parsons, they were unable to find anyone who wanted to hurt Miss Parsons. Everyone described her as being great. Pleasant woman. And another person they want to talk to is Mitch Cozard.

He was that contractor who was there that morning. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. And I'm with Howard. Mitch Cozard was the one that alerted us

to the, well, break in at the Parsons house. - I mean, I do anything in the world, I have to admit it. - Oh, I know you, I know you, and we appreciate you coming here. - This sickness, maybe, you know, I mean, not getting asleep, but I'm not just worrying about, I'm thinking about that woman.

- The indicated that he was hired to come in and do some work there at the house because Parsons had it on the market. - And I see the glass all over the patio, I said, "Hmm, this don't look good." - Now, what's up in the hall? I said, "Hey, is anybody in there?"

And anyway, I didn't hear nothing. I mean, right now, the other, and it was a cell phone. I said, "Hey, I said, this is next close. I have a note of your house. I said, "I think you've been broken into,

- He was pretty much mad or fact about it.

I mean, he was neat, and I'm nothing to give in the indication that he was involved in anything other than exactly what he was there for. - His clothes are also told me there was a man sitting across the street on a big rock and somebody else's yard. He was just sitting there staring at the houses.

He kind of thought that was weird. - Then I seen that boy sitting in the next door neighbor sitting down on a rock across the street. And that made me kind of suspicious right there because I was looking at some of the guys that look out right here.

I mean, he might be still, you know, something that going on here. - He hadn't my interest peaked. It was a large rock and he was sitting on it just sitting there waiting. I actually had him sitting down on the curb. He was wondering if I found it out that that was Michael Bowers.

- Michael Bowers is Becky's oldest son. Becky lives right next door to K. - Investigators do an interview with Michael Bowers

“to figure out, you know, what time did you get here?”

- Where have you been? - We're only talking to Michael any Bowers. Michael, you stayed delivered to Grovetown, Georgia. And you stayed at your 20 years of age.

- Michael Bowers was the first person really on the scene

before even the maintenance man showed up and called 911. Michael drives, he realizes home has been broken into. - I walked up three yards, I found the front door, I opened. It was kind of weird, I was opened and I kind of pushed it. I opened just a little bit more.

I took one step in and I saw the golf clubs lying right by the door, so I knew something was right. And so I stepped back out the house and I called the home. That was at 8.35. And she told me, "I don't go inside.

Wait, I'm on the way home." - The first call he made is not 911. It's to his mom. - Which is kind of odd. You know, you got two houses broken into

and you don't call the police, but you call your mother. Just kind of didn't make sense. - The morning of the murder, Michael Bowers told his mom he had a job, painting a house, and she dropped him off, actually.

If you bend the house yet to even start out.

- No, not yet.

“So when did you tell your mom you had this paint job?”

When did you tell her you tell her you had it a little while ago? This morning. But Michael Bowers tells detectives that the paint job didn't happen because it ended up raining that day.

But it starts raining. So I want to do that. And I went ahead and I just walked back down to the house. He told detectives he had gone back to the house at 8.30 in the morning. And that's when he noticed that there was a break in the house.

- And I went down the saddle in the rocks and then I got pulled up about maybe five minutes, ten minutes after I was there. I heard him go around back, you know, and two of the house was anybody home

and didn't get the answers. - And I was heard him. So I started, I walked up the hill to the end, and I said, "Did you say something about a boat?" And he said, "Yeah.

I was like, "Well, I think it's my broken miles, too." I wasn't my historian from the get go, because it wasn't raining. It just didn't have the ring of truth to us, put it that way. - I'm not saying you're lying,

but there's something bothering you. Just certain things don't add up. I just feel like that there's something that you're not telling us. So while investigators are focused on Michael,

this case is about to take another stunning turn. - And then we got a phone call from our newsroom that said, "Hey, you won't believe this." - There had been a shooting at healing hands. - Like, wow, this is wild.

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rated PG-13 may be inappropriate for children under their team. In theaters and IMAX may 22nd get tickets now. [Music] Our investigators do an interview with Michael Bowers. Mr. Bowers is the oldest son of Rebecca Sears.

We found out that Michael was kind of the black sheet. Well, there you have been arrested for anything? Yeah. He had a 2-D-E-Y-S and Joven's been alive. No burglary, you stepped by taking nothing like that.

Michael Bowers had struggled with some addiction issues, and he was currently taking methadone, trying to curb his addiction, but did not have a job and was really struggling at the time. [Music]

They became best friends. Michelle Amerson, she knew Michael well, and she told me that she was actually really good friends with his mother Becky. Michael, he just became one of my boys,

and he was a lot of fun, Jonathan, my son, and they were very, I'd say best friends. What sort of issues did you see with Michael? They just got into, I guess, like probably some drugs. And Michael seemed to struggle with that?

Michael did. Michael has a history with drugs, and that automatically kind of puts him kind of up on the map as being a potential suspect. We were looking at a timeframe

that we had for the goodness this assault occurred on. Okay, so we wanted to make sure where we knew he would keep with that at that timeframe. [Music] The morning of the murder,

Michael Bowers told his mom he had a job, painting a house. We started pressing him on details of, you know, paint colors. And if you had a job that you were about to do,

these were things that you would know. You would have an interest for it.

“So what would be there if we drove up to the house today?”

And that you were going to use today to paint this? [Music] It's a painting. Just to paint it. You probably paint it outside.

I don't even know what color it is. Oh, they bought the paint every night for me. Can you just show up and paint? How much do you find going to paint for this paint job? Oh, really?

I mean, disgust to you. The story he was telling just really wasn't making very much sense. I'm getting the vibe from you that there's something that's either bothering you, something you may feel like, maybe the truth, and you may not want to tell me because you might be worried about

street credit. I don't know what it is to do. I've been doing this. I've been doing this all the time. I've been doing this all the time.

I've been doing this all the time. I've been doing this all the time. You know, when you're all over, then you've been alive. What happened?

That's when he finally told us that he didn't have a job.

Probably they didn't much paint and stuff at Frank Ford's house on that day. I mean, nothing else. After we find out he's lying about the painting job, the first thing that pops in my head is why he's alive. We're in a while, because that's why I told him I'm home.

“And this way, right now, your mom is the last thing you need to worry about, right?”

Yeah. I'm telling you that there's a woman, your neighbor is laying over there. I mean, yeah, that's very important. In your home, you're worried about your mom getting pissed at you because you told her you have a job, you didn't have to do.

You got to be up front, this ain't no time to be worried about your mom finding out you've told her a fear. We find out that you've held anything back. But call it your word about your mom, because you're worried about your friends, because you're worried about whatever.

You're going to be made accessory to this crime. And I don't want to see that happen. You've got problems enough. It was hours and hours that he was there and say, we kind of started feeling uncertain and what was happening. Did it make you think maybe he's a suspect?

Well, I was thinking, you know, are they thinking he's part of it? The tech has been talking to Michael, but the tech does now want to talk to his brother Christopher. They want to see if he knows anything about this situation. All right, to save the interview was Christopher Vowers.

You understand, you came up here for your own free will. He was about 19 at the time. He seemed to have things together. He had a house, he had a job, and he seemed to be out of the two brothers,

the one that had more going for him. He had his life together a lot more than Michael, the two were exactly as polar opposite as you could get. That interview mainly consisted of talking about getting more information on Michael's brother.

He always lies about, um, I got this job to do that.

Because when your mother dropped him off,

“does your mother think he actually has a job to do?”

Yeah, she actually does. He was not really helping his brother at all. I'm afraid you might have some doubts about your brother. I did, I don't believe in the psychic hotline,

and roll time backwards, and I don't believe in Superman, flew around the earth four times, and got him to get lowest laying alive again. So this is what I'm saying.

Whatever's happened is happening. I can't change it, you can't change it. Nobody can change it. I don't even want you to leave this room thinking

“you could have told you should have told me something”

that you didn't because you didn't think I believed it. The only thing that, if you, and I can ask the tell me that you're catching something kind of alive from the, I am. But more so from the brother,

and I just want to make sure you ain't sticking up for something with your brother, but go ahead and tell me what you're fixing to do. He has had a problem in the past with the drugs. Honestly, today, looking at him.

He might have taken my way. If he went in to organize the house, K would have recognized Michael, and so in order to prevent her from identifying him as the, as the barger, he could have easily,

you know, taken her out of the equation. And you think your brother did this or did you think I'm absolutely not? I don't think my brother has it in his heart. He said no, my brother wouldn't have,

would never be able to do anything like this,

but he's kind of waffling on what he's telling me about his brother. Well, I was still focusing on Michael pretty heavily. So there were a lot of things pointing investigator straight to him.

“Remember them, you know, asking him to lift his feet.”

For some reason, asked him to listen to modern shoes. What he finds on Michael's shoe? I mean, this is pretty damn it. It could put him inside K's house at the time of the murder. How can you explain that?

Solving this case is really what neighbors are hoping for. I know all the neighbors are on, you know, I alert and, you know, I want to find out what actually happened. This had now gone from an assault case to a murder investigation and Michael Bowers looked like he could be the prime suspect.

As well as talking to Michael out there to see, and I just, for some reason, asked him to lift his feet up. So he does that and I start seeing the little broken pieces of glass in his shoe trints. That look like it came from the back door of K's house.

You broke the glass or you walked through the glass to go into the house. As far as the glass that was found in your shoes, how can you explain that? Guys, my shoes are, I guess.

What did you see when you walked around there?

“I saw that door, all the glass was busted out of the door.”

But you never actually walked up to the ground right there.

How far back from the patio was the hospital? You and Mr. Cosa are standing up. Four or five feet in the grass. Then he remembered when his mother got there that he walked up there with her.

She walked up and was going right behind the cup and threw K's back door. She actually stepped in onto the glass and was calling her name. And I walked up over there and grabbed her on.

Now you're stating that she did go on the patio. Yes. I was pretty close enough to get the glass on the chair. I'm just getting a bad vibe from you. That really boxed. He was feeling like he was a suspect.

He didn't know anything. He was saying you're lying. But the certain things don't add up. And I'm not sure what it is. And if you don't tell us and we have to find it out on our own.

If we hunt, pecking, dig, and the sheriff has to pay four or five investigators a bunch of man hour over times. He's going to be pretty pissed.

Michael was the first one of interest.

He was the first one on the scene. And then he has to glass in the shoe. Then he earned the interviews. He's lying. But now he's got a new story for detectives.

Now he tells them that instead of having a painting job, he just went to hang out with his friend, Tony Chrissy, only at the time of the murder. So how long did you tell him to tell me there? About a hour.

Until he left. So there is a tell me. There is a tell me that it exists. I don't believe you. And I'm not going to quit.

I'll find out who did this. And I will find out who did it. Once we got the information from Michael about what he was doing, I'm going to go back and check it. It's a story out and make sure everything falls in line with what he's saying.

Or he's going to have a lot more explainer to do. I went to interview Tony Chrissy. I wanted to know if Michael was there. I want to know if he was involved. This is an investigator.

Give me the admin. I don't know. So I'm Chrissy. I want to take the polygraph. I want to explain to Tony that he failed the polygraph.

That's [bleep] No. He didn't even close the pass and I followed you. Well, I'm sorry. But I'm not lying about it.

I told him I'd take another one.

“I mean, if I was lying, why the hell would I have said I'd take it?”

But the more important part is, I'm sure. Well, I'm telling the truth. Michael Bauer said he was at his house. I mean, I don't know what to tell you. Tony tells me that you know, after Michael gets there,

they sent out and they're talking for a little bit, watching TV. What time Michael get to your house? 645, roughly. And I pushed him pretty hard.

And he finally tells me that the reason Michael came over

was to ask for methadone. I'm on methadone. You know, I'm not a junkie. I was a junkie. I got my [bleep] straight.

Michael I guess was sick or whatever. And he came by begging. Told him no. And he begged in begging some more. And finally I told him to take grass downtown.

You know, they'll get on methadone in your damsel. Talk to me other investigators that have been talking to you. I mean, I didn't want you guys knowing I was on [bleep] methadone. Dude, it's embarrassing. But, whoa, right now, there's a little bit more to worry about in the men on methadone.

I want this gun bag of did it to go to jail. I promise you. Well, so do I. Well, then we're both in the same boat. No, not really.

“All I had was his word and the hand Michael's word.”

And if they're in this together, of course they're both going to love for each other. How do you explain the polygraph? I can't explain the polygraph. I can't explain the polygraph.

I mean, you explained it to me. I can explain to you as long as I've been working here. You know, I've been here a long time. Right. 13 years.

And nobody's ever failed. Who wasn't telling the truth?

I've never seen it wrong.

Dude. I hate to call you all liars. But I don't think that they'll do that. I think y'all are trying to railroad. I mean, I do.

I wish I had more information for you. What are you doing? What do you want? I do that. Because you think I know something.

Because y'all think I can give you something that I didn't do. I'm telling you if I could. If I knew my pathetic. Fuck testified. I would.

I'd tell him in court. But I can't tell you something. I don't know for sure. I don't think so. I can't tell you.

Yes, I can't tell you. Now Jimmy's partner sits down to push harder on that field polygraph test. I'm not saying that you did this.

Dude, I don't know nothing about things.

I am saying that according to that polygraph test, there's something that's bothering you. There's something that's making you when that question's asked. There's something that's making your body functions that you can't control. Right?

I don't know if it's maybe Michael's said something to you in passive. I don't know if Chris said something to you in passive. I don't know if you just have a real strong idea who did it. And you just don't want to tell us. But something's bothering you.

I told the polygraph, man. Dude, I. I don't think Michael's got the f*cking to do it. But I don't get. Dude, if you did it.

Get him to understand. This is it. Yes, whoever did this deserves what you give. What the judge gives me, what the jury gives him. They deserve it.

They'll get it. Tony Chris the only one that we started talking. He was combat if they're for a little while. He's a wild, harsh, strong individual. And he's just bouncing off the walls all the time.

I, you know, I'm the honest. I don't think you just don't go killer. And I'm not. You know, well, not.

“Well, I think you can see somebody better than her.”

If I wanted to kill somebody. Well, you know, kill my wife's boyfriend. These are f*ck. I'm kidding. Yeah. I'm kidding.

So, Luke, I need to know where you were. Did anybody see you? Can anybody prove you were there? Is there anything at all that y'all did that? One of the person saw y'all doing that hour and a half?

Yes. Yes. Yes. Terry, my next door neighbor. Hey, as a matter of fact, I won't say nothing else.

Terry is my next door neighbor. He saw me in Michael. Well, he doesn't know it was Michael. He said he didn't know it was him. But he knows that was out back.

I didn't have some investigator over to talk to the neighbor. And the neighbor verified it. So, Tony got ruled out as a suspect pretty quick. And then all of a sudden out of nowhere, we got to call that they're going to shoot him.

And we were thinking, wait a minute. The Thursday night shooting happened here at the Healing Hands Physical Therapy Center. How could this be that two women could be attacked in 48 hours? There is something far more nefarious going on here. That kind of blue, a whole big can of worms open.

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“Turns out not to be who you think they are.”

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Totally. My office and Sunday came out from the trees and he shot me. We got a call. It's about 10 o'clock at night. A reference to shots fired with one person being hit.

Okay. Do you know where you get it? I'm not lagged. Okay. I want to play.

Okay. Just stay. I'm listening. Thank you.

“Becky Sears is shot at her place of business.”

And we're thinking, wait a minute. I was shocked because her neighbor Kay had just been severely beaten to death. Those are bed flags all over the place. I don't know if he's shot me if he missed me. There's a hole in my room to film me what happens.

I don't believe him. I'll just go into my truck. And he came out and said he'd take me back to the door and he shot me. Did he say anything for you? He said if he didn't, it isn't any.

The next time. It would be not safe. We got units coming to your bathroom. Okay. And while she waits for help.

She's talking to her husband Tony on a second full.

Okay. It's not that bad Tony. It's just my foot. It's just my leg. I can't stand up all my leg.

Tony, I have to hang up the phone. I'm too close. A partner Steve and I responded. But when we arrived on the scene, it was just uniquely dark.

“But as we got out and started walking into the scene,”

it wasn't until we got around the back corner of the building that we saw the ambulance there and saw Becky Sears in the back of the ambulance being treated. [ Music ] Laying out on the crime scene, writing this area right here was a pair of boots that belonged to Rebecca Sears.

I in front of one of the boots was a 25 caliber spent shell casing and then the actual projectile was right here. [ Music ] So we interviewed the Sears in the back of the ambulance. She advised that a subject came out of the bushes over in this direction.

She couldn't describe them other than to say he had a white hat wearing all black. [ Music ] She knew it was a man but didn't know who it was. She was unable to provide a meaningful description of the suspect. [ Music ]

This walkway is the entryway to the back of the building that she messures. This is a bit of a come out of when she was leaving. She told me that the shooter came from this direction over here from all these thick bushes and made his way up here in surprise to her as she was coming out the door. The round when it was fired hit one leg, grazed off of her, hit the other leg and went through her boot.

There is a hole in the boot where the round went through and actually landed and stopped on the sidewalk. Her wounds appear to be more of like a deep scratch than both of her legs. [ Music ] We conducted a canvas of the area if we were unable to find any sort of cameras or surveillance systems that would have caught the incident or anybody fling the scene.

Rebecca Sears that that her next door neighbor had recently been murdered. And she thought this may somehow be tied to that. I got a call from our newsroom that said, "Hey, you won't believe this, but Becky Sears was just shot outside of her office." My jaw hit the floor when I realized I had interviewed Becky Sears.

It's doing a story about car insurance and just happened to be at a gas station. She's seen here filling up a whiteboard F250 truck. $6,000 in car insurance a year ago. She was a hard-working business woman with kids at home and just a mom trying to do it all.

I could never have guessed that just a few months, months later we'd be talking about something like this.

Her younger children, she doded on, she loved them. And she was that mom that was always there, like always participating in the things. Jessica Lundy was a child care provider for those kids. And she was also a friend of Becky. She was very outgoing, very energetic.

When she walked in the room, you would know because very voice just very loud.

I had boys and she had boys and we had a lot of things in common,

“you know, with our friendship because of our children.”

Trying to keep them from fighting, trying to keep them from, you know, eating all the food up. There was just a lot of laughter.

Becky, I've never seen her not put together.

Peer was always done perfectly. Makeup was already finished, so she always was always well put together when she would drop off her kids. Becky married Tony Sears a few years earlier. This is a photo from their wedding. What can you tell me about Becky's husband, Tony?

Tony did a lot of get the gathers and grill down. And you know, Tony was a lot of fun and he was just a good old guy. I know that Tony traveled a lot for work. He did. He was a truck driver, so he was going a lot.

So, you know, it was kind of a way of life.

You know, you got to make a living.

Becky's husband, Tony, we spoke to him in person as well. And he had nothing to do with anything. He had no knowledge of anything. And with her saying that her next door neighbor had been killed. Obviously there was more to this story.

So, after we left here, we contacted the Columbia County Sheriff's Office. Jim got the phone call and he said that she had been, you know, the Becky had been shot. We all, you know, looking at one of those, like that kind of stuff doesn't happen. Now you're starting to get out there and that twilight zone kind of thing. And now what are we doing?

Somebody just out for these people.

How could this be that two neighbors could be attacked in 48 hours?

Could the same person that killed Kay be the same person that now is costing Becky? What did they get into that could cause all of this destruction and chaos around them? And then I get a phone call from one of the jailers over at our jail. And so we have an inmate over here that wants to talk to you badly. If you're telling you this, it'll probably estranged me from my family.

That I feel like I need to come forward and tell the truth. Let's go get started again. Two Columbia County women are attacked in two days and they happen to live next door to one another. Hey Parsons and Rebecca Sears both worked at the same company, healing hands physical therapy center. So this is just a big coincidence.

“Yeah, that's what they're saying right now.”

But again, they are still investigating that really kind of blue the story wide open. Sears shown on video with deputies here was also the victim of a crime the day before. Her house was burglarized along with 41 year old Kay Parsons. Parsons was beaten in her home after she apparently walked in on the burglary. But we were like, this is the crazy thing ever.

And all of a sudden now, we've got two victims. We've got Kay Parsons and we have Becky Sears and now her name is really in the forefront. You learned that Becky's been shot. What's your reaction during all of this? Shocking.

Did not expect anything out like that to happen. And her son Michael got so upset that he could barely breathe. Something's targeting this woman, this family, what did they get into? That could cause all of this destruction and chaos around them. The ambulance had taken Becky Sears to the hospital where I conducted a formal interview with Becky.

President has investigated Douglas and his Rebecca Sears. The Sears were taken back to the last thing you were doing that was normal. But did a couple of steps actually into the parking lot. And then someone came running out of the bushes. Towards me, I turned around back towards my office.

And I heard what I thought was a good shot and then I fell. She seemed very nervous.

“And what do you remember about his clothing at all?”

I remember everything was black except for he had on a white ball cap. He didn't grab your purse. I didn't have my purse, it was in my car. I don't know if it was the hour or the stress of the event that had possibly taken place. But she just seemed very tired.

So as far as you know, you can't think of any reason when anybody would have shot at you for just for whatever reason. Nope. So Eva Mullins is a friend and co-worker with Becky Sears at Healing Hands. Since she was on the phone with Becky when the incident took place, I interviewed Eva at the hospital.

I just thought maybe she saw a bug on the floor and I was like, Becky, what's wrong?

What's wrong? And then she's like, he's not me. And after that, I've just lost her. So the phone connection went dead. Right.

She pretty much cooperated.

“What Becky Sears had told us about the phone call portion of what took place.”

I just got home and just got to the bed with my phone rings. And it's one of the other investigators. He said, Jimmy, you're not going to believe this. I said, what? He said, Becky Sears is at the hospital.

She's just been shot. I said, you have gotta be kidding me. That's okay. I said, I'm getting in the car, be down in a few minutes. You're supposed to go on.

Okay, Steve. I don't know. I don't know. I just can't tell. Tell.

I said, I don't want to have any idea.

Well, I was doing what's going to do with payroll. What do you say to you? That you wanted this money or next time, it would be my face. I don't want money. I don't want it.

No, I don't. No, we need money. You need money. Well, I don't want to interview in her. I was focusing on the threat about, you know, I want my money.

I don't want money or next time it'll be your face. I'm trying to figure out, you know, do I still need to keep looking at Michael or do one of Michael's drug dealers? I don't think Michael. Unless he owes money from the past.

I don't think he owes any money now. I don't think he's in debt to anybody like that.

Was the insinuation that we got?

Was that she was a calls to buy somebody that Michael owed money. And that they want to try to get it from Becky.

“I think he's trying to stay away from all of that to better yourself.”

I don't want you to be the next one dead. I don't want someone in your family to be the next one dead. Because it's not just random that they break into your house and break into her house that killed her and then they shoot you. Next day.

I don't want your kids to get hurt. I don't want anybody to get hurt. It's like, well, you know, that's life. I'm still doing that. I just want you to think you're going in one direction and then all of a sudden there's that twist.

Investigators are working around the clock. They get a phone call from an inmate, Jerry Jacobs, that's currently at the Columbia County Sheriff's Office Jail. Let's go to the start of the game. And he has an information that he needs to get off his chest.

Especially meet up here, but being with your sister back. I do it. And it ended up being this inmate was Becky's brother. And he was in there on a misdemeanor bench warm on a traffic charge. He said, me telling you this will probably, um,

estranged for me from my family. That I feel like I need to come forward and tell you to tell the truth.

“She came to me one day there in the park and I was like, you know what's wrong?”

And that's when I actually tell when she was having it. I said, how long has this been going on? She said about four months. Did I ask her? Because I couldn't believe she was going to say that.

I couldn't believe she told me she was having a affair. Now it's kind of like, okay, this took a city term. Very quickly. She was having an affair with somebody, but she wouldn't tell him who it was. But when detectives find out who Becky was having a affair with,

it changes everything in this case. I didn't know at the time who it was. And I could just tell by the way, the body language looked at each other. And I was like, well, it's anybody's this guy. When I got something coming to work with.

This essentially made the entire investigation going in a different direction. But that was a huge bombshell. This is a very big deal for my investigation. Stuff that you're so fantastical. You wouldn't think it would happen, but it would be as it happened.

Investigators, they go in the interview, Jerry Jacobs, who is the half-brother of Becky Sears. And that took the investigation in a whole different direction. She came to me one day. They're in the parking lot, crying.

And I was like, you know what's wrong? And that's when I actually tell them she was having an affair. It's a huge bombshell that there had been an affair happening. But it's who Becky was having an affair with. It shocked the police.

Then I found out later on that he lived right next door. Becky Sears had been having an affair with David Parsons. Who is the husband of K Parsons? She just called and say, well, something like, you know, Tony, he don't do this for me.

He doesn't do that for me and David does. Following and love with David. I was shocked because a new Becky wasn't exactly happy in her marriage, but I didn't think she was having an affair with anybody. I didn't suspect anything, you know, other than they were all good friends.

And I guess, do what they had to do while her mom's at the time.

“Do you have any idea how long would we need her?”

She told me about four months. In a fair between married neighbors, that can happen. But it's what Jerry says Becky asks them to do next that shifts the investigation. She was crying and she had asked me if I knew of anyone or if I knew a way that we could do this to kill K and make it look like an accident.

Like cut her break line on her car or do something and that it made. Becky had been asking her brother for a while to take care of K to get her out of the way so she and David could be together. She's like, I really want her to do it. She said, "Can we do this?"

And I'm like, "No, we can't." I asked him, "What are you hoping to get out of this?"

He said that woman did not deserve that.

And I feel like I need to come forward and tell the truth. He also had provided information to investigators that Rebecca Sears had had the same type of

“conversation with Christopher Bowers, the younger of her adult children.”

Christopher's name coming up really shocks police because they had been taking a hard look at Michael Becky's other son. But now what Jerry Jacobs tells them has them looking at Christopher in a whole new light. And then Christopher, he had told me, "You know, Mama called me in the middle of the night last night crying and you know, she says if we could get away with it,

you know, it would sure make everything better on her. Because she loves David so much." He tells investigators that Christopher would do anything for his mom. And that he was a mama's boy. Becky seemed to doubt on him.

You know, always did. One out of the way to make sure that Christopher had a place to stay money with by him gifts. She's been dumping a lot of money on us lately at him too. Mostly new. She just bought him a brand new 2000 and nine.

So Zuki, 250, dirt bike. Becky said, "You all look beyond house. When we did, we found one. She got us that. She played the brand." Christopher wanted to do anything to please his mom.

And so she would frequently call him crying about K. I'm wanting to be with David. And then of course, Christopher came and told me a couple of times. Not asking me to help him do it. But just saying, "You know, mother would be a lot better off."

She said, "Okay, would just disappear." Or somebody would just come kill it. That was what broke everything wide open. With Chris' name now on their radar, cops are wondering if there's actually two brothers involved. Yeah, and then discussions you might pull about, like he said.

But Christopher? Not right. It was Christopher, no. Police have to be sure about this. So before talking to Christopher, they bring in Becky's son Michael again to be absolutely sure about what he knows. Well, it's over. Okay. I'm not playing games anymore.

I know about the fail with your mom and David. Okay, my mom and dad. Don't waste stupid with me. Don't waste stupid with me. I'm telling you right now, it'll get ugly real quick. If you come clean and tell me what the hell is going on. Tell me your involvement.

Who else is involvement? Now. Don't... I'm telling you. I'm not. I promise you. Listen to me. Listen to me.

I know what's going on, okay? I know where your mom, when a kid did. Okay? Don't give me eyes like that. I'm telling you, I know what's going on. Do you want to go to prison for the rest of your life?

Well, I know. There's a very big deal for my investigation. Some of these questions I've had early on.

First, starting to make sense.

“You need to start talking here and now, okay?”

What opened the gates is what Jerry Jacobs told us about the affair. And some of these puzzle pieces start fitting together. Becky hasn't told us once about this affair. And I brought Michael back in for an interview. And it was a pretty strong interview.

Don't think you can play me and get away with this. It's not going to happen. I'm hoping to either get a confession or what his knowledge is of Becky and David Parsons having an affair. You know what has been the one on the other in David? I didn't know what I was waiting for.

All she did was show me the phone and it showed me like two text messages saying something like happy birthday or something like that.

I didn't know who it was from or anything like that. He didn't know anything and he couldn't give them the answers that they were looking for because he was on a wire.

I never saw her and David together. No bothered themselves.

She never made any indications to me that I noticed that she had any feelings for David or that it was David. You have lied to me from the get go. You know that. Have you not? I did.

Have you not? Yes, I did. The lies and his story, the lies he was telling to me and to other people that we were catching him in.

“That's why we were looking at him pretty heavy.”

You got to say that you did it yourself now. You didn't do that. You didn't do that. You didn't tell him about that. But when over in the house that morning, the light on who was involved in it.

They kind of knew that Michael's story was. They went over and over and drilled him. I was on the phone and I don't know about this point. And she was like, don't go in the house, you know. I'm on the way home.

Rebecca had been called to the scene by her son Michael. I walked in the neighbor's driveway. The day I was just watching. I thought I'd think it to myself. Maybe I shouldn't be this close to the house if someone is in.

The maintenance guy pulled up. And he walked straight to the back. And then I heard him yelling to the house. I walked up to him.

“And I was like, you know, did you just say something about somebody breaking in over here?”

And he was like, yeah. That was like, well, I think somebody broke into my house too. We were verified some of his story as well. As far as his alibi and stuff goes. And in Mom pulled up and the top pulled up just right after her.

The top walked in. She walked right behind him, called him. And he didn't. She stepped back out. And then he'd come back in, come back out.

And I was like, y'all got to the front of this to the crown. They were really coming down hard on him and asking him a lot of questions. Everyone is going to remain a suspect until they're not. I'm not playing f***ing anymore. That woman was murdered.

That last interview with Michael, I went and had him pretty hard. You know, showing in pictures of K and hollering at him and casting at him. Look at her f***ing hit. Look at her hit. Do you want to f***ing tell me what's going on?

I told you. No, you have not. You have not. The only other thing is that I did hear Mom say, I have a comment about which, you know, you know, something about somebody dying.

You can see here. Listen, I know what your mother, okay? I know what your mother. And I know you want to protect your mother. All right.

You're 22 years old, right? Yes, sir. You might want to look at for number one right now. I heard her make this comment about, you know, wishing somebody would just die or drive off a cliff somewhere or something like that.

She has asked you specifically if you can kill. No, she has not. Yes.

She never mentioned K to him at all.

He admitted to knowing about enough air, but he never said that Becky asked him to do anything

“to K or mentioned to him about the only thing to K.”

The man, she said, she is perfectly asking you. Would you be willing to help get rid of somebody? She kind of sent you away. She didn't directly ask me that, but she kind of sent you away today. Michael Bowers, while he did give some false information to law enforcement when he's initially interviewed

95% of his story, it lined up with what they were able to corroborate. So even though police were at times suspecting him, it sounds like in your mind, it could not have been Michael. No, I did not ever feel like he was involved at all. I never, ever had that feeling. By the time I got done with that interview with him, I believed him.

I didn't believe he actually had any part in it. Do you think Chris will open and talk to him? No. I would really help him and borrow him. So I'm like, I don't get somebody to do something like that.

I would really help not, but honestly, you know, it's possible. Now we got some rock solid information to follow up on with Becky and then now we're Christopher. It seems like Chris Bowers is moving up police's potential suspect list. But first, they had to talk to one other person about that secret affair. I'm not going to be around the bush with you here, okay?

We've figured out what happened. That's right.

I would never, I would never, I never, I never, I never wanted anything to happen to him.

Standard view of Mr. David Parsons. Well, we first talked to David.

You know, he was playing the role of the bereaved husband. Then all of a sudden, now you found out he's been having an affair. What I need to do is tell me about your relationship with Becky. He ended up obviously back then I started talking and then I started to go home. See you soon. He pretty much came clean to everything at that point as far as, you know, the affair.

She didn't come here before Gordon. She didn't. She didn't come around lunch every day. All right.

“Do you need to be with her in your home?”

Two to nine. Twice. Or with the other location to be. You know, it's been a time in one of our two vehicles. And her mom's house.

I think investigators initially have to determine, you know, what's relevant. What's not relevant. And unfortunately, that is a common thing. You know, people have fleas on the side.

They have relationships on the side. How long did you all relationship last?

I was, you know, always told a little February.

Where was physical whenever I was. And about that time, Kay Parsons out of nowhere starts getting text messages from an unknown number saying, do you know where your husband is? And some mysterious ominous text messages about her husband

and some infidelity. If they don't know where they came from, there's no phone number to ask to it. What does that say?

“If you want to see who your husband's been with,”

come to this parking lot at work right now. I hope you see him get out of our infinity. Are you going home to have sex with your husband now? I'd like you to have with her. We did surf on a healing hands.

And we found some cards, and some laundry, and big testers. And the cards were from David Parsons. They were love letters to you, her. Becky did confess the affair to Tony,

her husband, and a moment of weakness. So this thing is getting messy. So now Tony decides he's going to call Kay Parsons and tell her about the affair. And now the secret's out.

Kay, you found out? She knew about it. We talked about it. We were going to work through it.

We could never stay together.

And that's the reason we were trying to get, you know, sell the house and we moved in there.

“She wants to stay in there with her living right there in next door.”

Now that everybody knew about it, he had to put an end to it. She knew the whole time that I didn't want anything to change with my situation to Kay. And so I just, you know, got that it for me just to excuse him.

To be even, I didn't want to continue on doing it. At the time that Kay was murdered, David was all the way across the country owned a business trip in California. So physically, we knew he couldn't do it.

But that doesn't mean that he could try to set it up and work with other people. Naturally, they want to discover whether or not Mr. Parsons had an enology of the murder of his Parsons. Was he involved in this?

It was common practice. If he was out of town for business,

he always called his son before he went to school.

Every day. He told Kay first his wife, and he called her several times and couldn't get her on the phone. I kept trying to call, trying to call, and I texted her, you know,

I said, "Why are you changing your phone?" I kept trying to call, and I started getting worried I thought, maybe she's going to ask another something. David's calling around frantically to see what happened to Kay. Surprisingly, the first person he calls

is the person he says he broke the affair off with Becky Sears. Did you call Becky that morning? Yes, I called her. He said to her, "Okay, I left about the same time,

and she's seen her falling around. She went to school and she turned the other way to take her son somewhere or what was going on." While he would call Rebecca to check on his wife considering that they had just been called in the affair,

I don't think his wife would have wanted to hear from Rebecca. I had my suspicions, whether she knew what was going to happen or not. Did you talk to Becky Monday or Tuesday? Yes, Tuesday night, we had a long conversation. We just talked for a little while about what was going on

and then we got involved in your phone sex, so we found it. He says that the affair had been over for a while. Come to find out that he and Becky Sears were having phone sex the night before Kay was killed. It's so critical that you do not withhold any information.

Because I'm telling you everything. You're not going to do your son any good by withholding any information and going to prison. For some kind of involvement, just with my wife. Certainly an affair would provide a pretty solid motive.

I did give David a polygraph test, and he passed it and a polygraph test. I dismissed him as a suspect because I had no evidence to point that he knew anything about it, planning anything with it.

Mecky Sears and Christopher Bowers.

They were my top suspects.

“I started putting together teams because we're going to execute”

these search warns of both houses at the same time. At this point, Becky was staying at a hotel because of this whole thing about personal could come back so she didn't want to be at the house or whatever. Went to the hotel, knocked on the door,

made contact with her and told her that she was under arrest. We took her away from the kids, we didn't want to do it in front of the kids. Tony was very shocked when Becky was arrested. Becky was crying in Bujo and then another team went to another location and arrested Christopher.

Christopher had no reaction. He just stood up and put his hands out. I just couldn't believe he was in this mess, and I couldn't understand why.

Chris Bowers never had any problems with K-Pars.

He had no reason, not one whatsoever, to do anything to K-Pars. I want you to think on hard before you choose to get on a road. We thought maybe he might get her out.

“Everything's not happening the way you said it happens.”

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I've wouldn't have cut out carbs. I mean, I know what my fullness is, because my kids told me,

“but I've seen the way I eat and I'm pretty sure I don't practice it.”

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I'll spread an interview. And we take Christopher into custody. I had two investigators go to interview Christopher. A lot of things have come up in this investigation. And a lot of things lie for instance.

We know that your mom was having an affair with Mr. Parsons. Next door neighbor. Okay, sir. Yes. And there's many other things that come up.

Let's start asking him about what he did that morning and what's going on. What happened? What time did you meet the house that morning? Mom showed up about seven to seven living. We went out of water.

We asked her out for a little while. I also posted a nice of shows. She got a phone call from my brother saying that K's house had been broken. Christopher says he comes back to the house with his mother. And he sees his brother Michael at K's house talking to that contractor.

Did you go outside the residence room? Yeah. Is that in our house? Yeah, I've been in our house plenty of times. Your mom was in custody with us right now.

She was talking to us right now. Everything's not happened the way you said it happened. So I want you to really find long and hard. He got defensive and he said it sounds like he don't believe me. Whatever you're saying, I'm trying to say the lie.

When you're in this right now, I'm going to give all the word.

You can basically call me a liar.

I want you to a lawyer right now. Originally what I thought was going to happen was that watch Chris realized just how much he was manipulated by his mother that he would roll on her. That's just how much hold she had over him. He wasn't going to give her up for nothing.

Quite the opposite from what I heard and Becky's interview. She agreed to speak with us. And she went through the affair with David. Yeah, cared about him very, very much, very much. My husband had show affection to me.

You know, he didn't tell me he thought I was beautiful. He didn't tell me that he loved me. And those were things that David did. Police are talking to Becky and while they're interviewing her, they tell her that they have her son Christopher and custody.

She right away started throwing Christopher under the bus.

“Why did you pick him up though from his house that morning?”

We've talked on Tuesday and I told you that we pick him up. For what reason? I knew what was in Christopher's head, but we didn't say anything. The implied reason was he was going to go next door. To case house to do what?

We didn't talk about it. It was an implied reason. He was going in his mind to do whatever it took to make me happy. And that would be to get rid of K. So I went and picked him up and brought him back to my house.

And he went upstairs and I got the kids up and got them dressed. She had him hot upstairs and a spare bedroom.

So the other kids has siblings wouldn't see him there.

I told him, stay here and I'll be back in a little while. I'll be back here to get you in a little while. Okay, so he obviously did not do that. He went in to case house. But he was not supposed to.

He was supposed to stay at my house. Okay, but he couldn't. Maybe come back and pick him up. He didn't because he saw that I really wanted him to go next door. And I didn't want him to go over there.

We didn't sit down and make a plan for him to go over there. And kill K. She said she'd left to go take the younger kids to school. Becky dropped off her children. Didn't even really say hi or anything.

It was just, here's the kids by. She came in, not her normal put together self. Hair pulled up, not normal. Her face being red like she'd been crying. That is when Christopher went downstairs.

Went over to K's house, broken the back door with the hammer that he brought. Stages the burger there and waited for K to get home. It appeared as if Rebecca Sears was emotionally manipulating Christopher Bowers. She was very adamant about the actions of our son and how she was not part of the plot to kill K.

“You remember any phone calls calling him crying?”

Yes. Then you want her call up, click. You want her dead. I didn't say that, I said I wanted her to be gone. Christopher's mind is to do whatever he thought I wanted him to do.

And allowed him to think that. So you thought the safest thing was to bring him to your house and leave him there alone at the house. Right next door to where K would soon be there alone. That was the safest thing to do for this ticking time bond you had created. Is that what you're telling me?

I asked anybody to kill anybody. Christopher waited for K to get home. And when she got home, he beat her with the claw hammer. He finished her off of the baseball bat. Becky said, hey, call her and said, come pick me up.

And they had a pre plan location for her to pick him up. So he ran through the woods. He came out of the dead end of a road where she was waiting for him. When you got into the vehicle, could you see blood on this clothes and stuff? I think you have blood on the space and I asked him what he did.

I said, oh my God, what did you do? And I said, hey, Christopher, please help me because she is okay. Please help me that you did not do this. And what did he say? He said, I'll be the [bleep] ahead of her.

His own mother was just telling everything. Did he change clothes in the car? Yes. And he went into the hospital. [music playing]

Her son in her mind acted on his own without her direction.

“And remember that incident outside of Healing Hands,”

where Becky was shot, now she's telling detectives that the whole thing was staged by her and Christopher. And he was just going to shoot at me to scare me from me to say that somebody chased after me wanting many. You're all such.

She didn't mean to.

For his part, Christopher has never acknowledged being part of this plan.

I think Rebecca staged this crime to hopefully avoid criminal charges for the murder. [music playing] So police have Becky in custody and she's just talking and talking and talking. And even at one point, the tape recorder goes out and the battery dies. Her interrogation lasts almost five hours.

At the end of the interview with Becky, I got a restaurant for Christopher Bauer, and for Becky Sears, for murder.

You're on the rest of the murder.

In my mind, she was the mastermind of this murder. She gave him everything he wanted.

“And then I think she just says, hey, it's time to pay me back.”

And I got one little thing I need for you today. She was very adamant that she was not guilty of the crime. You've got a mother-in-son duo. She also just got the level of violence that had occurred to Miss Parsons. It was going to be, you know, death penalty case.

Becky Sears headed to trial and possibly facing the death penalty. She's got one more card to play. And then from jail, Becky contacts the district attorney.

It was like a made for TV movie.

I actually drove to Nashville. Tony Sears and her, his boys were staying there at the time. And I went there and interviewed Tony. With his wife and stepson behind bars, Tony Sears now lives in Nashville with his three young sons.

He was so kind to tell me about the woman he knew and loved. Could have the venue that, you know, be capable of something like this. I mean, they call her a mastermind that she orchestrated this.

“No, I don't believe that. I believe she's innocent.”

Becky Sears and Christopher Bowers would be in court together.

I remember being stunned when I was filming and realized I caught Becky

blowing Christopher a kiss in the courtroom. And then I was, you know, months later in the same courtroom, but a different proceeding. She was there, Malvang. I love you to him.

And you realize that this is the only contact they have with one another now. Rebecca's case was pending for two and a half years. At the time that she spent at the Columbia jail, saw a pretty big physical transformation. A couple of years after they were charged.

There was evidence that came to light through the defense council for Rebecca Sears. There wasn't a lot of physical evidence tying Christopher to the crime scene.

“It was supposed to be a bag of clothes that Chris had on during the attack.”

And he would have been wearing during this bloody fight for one of the house of the other. Once we realized that he took him off and threw him in a backpack, and it was just a matter of where he threw him. And he wasn't tell us. Becky Sears said that she didn't know where the clothes were.

So you don't know where the clothes were back yet? No, no, no. We were looking for a while. And then from jail, Becky goes through her attorney who contacts the district attorney. She was willing to give up where the bloody clothes were.

There was a error of desperation about Rebecca, because she knew that she had to do everything she could to avoid a conviction and a death sentence. So she was playing what little card she had left in her hand. She went to Becky's mother's house. And in a box, in that it was that backpack with the bloody clothes.

In the last step, Trevor to save her skin, she was willing to sacrifice her son. By turning over these items of Chris's clothing, we knew it was over. It's no defense now. There's no trial now. It is really mind-boggling how a mother could persuade her son to commit such a brutal murder.

After he does this awful thing on her behalf, she throws him under the bus. It's the most shocking betrayal of the love that a parent is supposed to have for a child. That I can even imagine. It's been more than three years, and a mother and son are now admitting they killed their neighbor, K. Parsons. Playing guilty because you aren't guilty.

Becky's ears and Christopher Bowers will each spend the rest of their lives behind bars, left to think about the innocent woman they now admit to killing. To not put the family through the trial and the crime scene photos, probably felt like the right move for the investigators and the prosecutors at the time. It's a little closure, but she should have got to death penalty.

She don't deserve us to feed her for a month of her life. Mr. Parsons and their now 15-year-old son were in court. He's a little boy who's lost his mom at a very young age. Go have to live the rest of his life wondering. I thought I knew what the definition of evil was, but a mother, you know,

manipulating her own son to commit a crime for her benefit. Rebecca and her husband were friends with K and her husband. The children played together, and then they, these two families, were destroyed.

Where is Michael now in his life?

“It took him a long time that he is doing very good.”

He has a good job, and, you know, has moved on, and we've just seen a new Michael O'Rass. We're happy. The real victims in this case are K Parsons and K Sun. And the fact that he went through life without his mother, you know, this is a woman who was cut down in the prime of her life because of an affair.

“That's the part that, you know, kind of gets made, is that she didn't deserve this.”

I always just go back to the fact that she was drinking her McDonald's coffee

in the living room when she was brutally attacked out of nowhere on just a quiet suburban morning. The two people responsible for killing K Parsons, Becky Sears, and her son Christopher Bowers will remain in prison for the rest of their lives.

“As for K's family, David, her son is now 29 years old,”

and her husband has since remarried.

That's our program for tonight. Thanks for watching. I'm Deborah Roberts. And I've dated New York from all of us here at 2020 and ABC News. Good night.

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