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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 the crime and the lack of witnesses, science proved that jonathan binney mu...

Mail carrier job and probably found binneys suicide note. 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 hospita...

>> in this particular case, we were looking at handprinting. and handprinting 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 unusually open. the lowercase "f" was almost always tilted at an angle to the rest of the letters in the word. >> ...

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...

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 with it." >> certainly found it to be a vital piece of evidence in the case. knew that we would be able to get handwriting analysis. >> document examiner, gail heath, compared the handwriting on the note to jonathan binneys han...

And the deputy just replied "who?" 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 much dna is deposited on the cigarette butts. >> the saliva on the cigarettes came fro...

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 murder for hire, with jonathan bi...