Parsons attorney says he may have to remove himself from case

ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. — Rowan County detectives are still looking for any clues about Erica Parsons' final days at the family's home before she disappeared. 

Channel 9 asked investigators if there was any video evidence captured by surveillance cameras across from the Parsons' home that could help the case. 

Even though the family's attorney, Carlyle Sherrill, said his clients have moved to Fayetteville, Channel 9 has seen them return to the home. 

Neighbors told Channel 9 Casey and Sandy will often wait until the media leave at night and then return home to apparently sleep at the house.

Channel 9 saw the Parsons' oldest daughter, Brook, and her husband coming and going from the home. 

Channel 9 talked Thursday with Sherrill, who said if homicide charges are filed, he won't be able to represent them anymore. 

He said he spoke to Sandy Parsons on Wednesday night about "a gamut of possible charges" in the case. 

“We’ll have to see what charges are brought. I think it depends how serious the charges are and their ability to pay,” Sherrill said.

Sherrill also told Channel 9 Casey Parsons is now embarrassed over claims that she believed Irene “Nan” Goodman was Erica’s biological grandmother.

“I think she is embarrassed that she let her daughter go off with this person that she didn’t really know,” Sherrill said.

Sherrill said to find Goodman and Erica, investigators should be shining their light on Erica’s biological mother, Carolyn Parsons.

“I think that the birth mother is key to it all because she is the only one who put Casey in touch with this Nan to begin with,” Sherrill said.

Casey and Sandy Parsons told Dr. Phil McGraw that Erica is with Nan, but investigators said Nan does not exist. 

Casey Parsons told McGraw that she met Nan first on Facebook in July 2011.  By the end of September, she agreed to let Erica spend the weekend with Nan. 

By the time the teen went for a third visit, they said she didn't want to come back, and no one has heard from her since. 

The Parsons said they do not have an address or working telephone number for Nan.