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>> all the evidence pointed to binney, but what was his motive? >> we looked for every conceivable connection. 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...

Total identification of the handwriting. thats pretty much it. thats top of the -- top of the 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 ...

>> document examiner gail heath compared the handwriting on the note to jonathan binneys handwriting samples. >> in this particular case, we were looking at hand printing. and hand printing can also be extremely identifiable back to an individual. most individuals when they first learn to write do learn to write from something called copy book style, which is printed letters within a textbook. >> there were a number of clear similarities. the lowercase "g," especially at the end of words, was un...

She and binney stumbled upon each other. as she tried to run, he fired two shots. one missed. the second hit her in the abdomen. [ gunshots ] binney got on his moped and fled through the fields. judy used her cell phone to call her husband, who arrived a short time later and rushed her to the hospital. since she saw the suicide note, she knew the perpetrators name. >> she gave me a name of somebody barry? >> she died later in the hospital. >> apparently, he felt like that he was not going to go ...

And it scared him into murder. >> he didnt want to go to 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 hi...

Illegible, the name at the top of the note was clear, melanie binney. since the note was addressed to "my wife, melanie," 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 m...

But couldnt establish a connection between jonathan binney and allen southern. >> there was no phone records or 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...

Conceivable connection. 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 att...

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 too much for him to bear. >> "the pressure i am or was under was intense. i couldnt...

Binney made what we refer to as a spontaneous utterance of "shes dead, isnt she?" and the deputy just replied "who?" and he said, "the woman i shot." >> but without saying anything more, jonathan binney asked for an attorney and he recanted his confession. the cigarette butts at the scene were given to analyst ken bogut. he cut them open to extract any cells that might be present from saliva. >> there usually is no problem in extracting dna from cigarette butts. its just usually a matter of how ...