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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 -- judy's 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 southern's life for allen southern? >> did binney and allen southern know each other? as police attempted to...

Total identification of the handwriting. that's pretty much it. that's top of the -- top of the scale. >> and prints on the note matched binney's. 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 binney's house, and this time, found him hiding in the basement. he was shirtless, with six nicotine patches on his ...

>> document examiner gail heath compared the handwriting on the note to jonathan binney's 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 unusually open. the lowercase "f" was almost always tilted at an angle to the rest of the letters in ...

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 perpetrator's 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 to prison as a child molester. he decided that he was going to be a murderer. and from what i under...

And it scared him into murder. >> he didn't want to go to prison as a child molester, because he said he would be somebody's bitch in prison, that he wanted to go as a murderer. >> binney said he didn't 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 knowing whethe...