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The closest we could ever find was that they may have both had public library cards at the same library, which is not very close at all. >> but there was someone who had a motive -- judys husband, allen. >> some domestic problems that they were having in their relationship. we immediately began to investigate that aspect of it, as was jonathan binney the go-between to end judy southerns life for allen southern? >> did binney and allen southern know each other? as police attempted to answer that ...

Prison as a child molester, because he said he would be somebodys bitch in prison, that he wanted to go as a murderer. >> binney said he didnt know the southern family and that allen had nothing to do with the murder. based on the forensic evidence and his confession, binney chose the southerns home at random while driving down the street on his moped. he entered the empty home through an unlocked window, then cut the phone lines. since his intent was murder, he would have killed whoever came ho...

Just a few miles from the southerns home. a background check revealed melanies husband, 26-year-old jonathan binney, had recently been arrested. >> jonathan binney is out on bond for the rape of his 3-month-old daughter. >> in the suicide note, binney said he planned to kill himself because the thought of going to prison for the rape of his child was too much for him to bear. >> "the pressure i am or was under was intense. i couldnt deal with it. >> certainly found it to be a vital piece of evid...

Was supposedly going to be a mass murderer. me and my son just didnt come home at the right time. >> jonathan binney was convicted of judy southerns murder and for the rape of his infant daughter. he was sentenced to death. >> what is most troubling about jonathan binneys case is that he picked a total stranger. and thats what the jury and others and even judys family members have such a hard time with. >> it ranks among the strangest and most senseless of crimes. despite the unusual nature of t...

Investigators checked marriage records and identified the womans husband as 26-year-old jonathan binney. the binneys lived just three miles away from the southerns home. allen southern said they didnt know the binneys. >> theyre not any more neighbors than people who live a mile apart in manhattan are neighbors. >> investigators needed to know whether this might have been a murder-for-hire, with jonathan binney as the shooter. >> the cell phone records, and trust me, we checked, looking to see w...

Scale. >> and prints on the note matched binneys. when police went looking for jonathan binney at his home, he was gone. >> we used a helicopter, which has a flare during the night, trying to get thermal imaging of anyone that would be out in the woods, as well as continued with the k-9 team, trying to track the suspect, jonathan binney. >> the next morning, investigators returned to binneys house, and this time, found him hiding in the basement. he was shirtless, with six nicotine patches on hi...

The same public library, along with the rest of spartanburg county. >> investigators decided to pay jonathan binney a visit. and by all accounts, what they found was beyond description. >> it is as despicable and sickening as anything you will see. spokesperson: the volkswagen passat is heads above the competition,

Anything to indicate any type of relationship between the two. allen actually took a polygraph test and was able to pass that. >> because of the evidence against him, jonathan binney was in jail. after several days, he told police he wanted to talk without his lawyer present. >> he wanted the death penalty. he was wanting to plea to the death penalty. he told us everything we asked. he told us, and even that and more. >> what binney proceeded to tell investigators ranks among the most bizarre co...

Because he said he would be somebodys bitch in prison, that he wanted to go as a murderer. >> binney said he didnt know the southern family and that allen had nothing to do with the murder. based on the forensic evidence and his confession, binney chose the southerns home at random while driving down the street on his moped. he entered the empty home through an unlocked window, then cut the phone lines. since his intent was murder, he would have killed whoever came home, and he had no way of kno...

At the scene of judy southerns murder, investigators found a suicide note addressed to, "my wife, melanie binney." and on the note was her address, just a few miles from the southerns home. a background check revealed melanies husband, 26-year-old jonathan binney, had recently been arrested. >> jonathan binney is out on bond for the rape of his 3-month-old daughter. >> in the suicide note, binney said he planned to kill himself because the thought of going to prison for the rape of his child was...