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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 woman's husband as 26-year-old jonathan binney. the binneys lived just three miles away from the southerns' home. allen southern said they didn't know the binneys. >> they're 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...

But couldn't 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 told us, and even that and more. >> what binney proceeded to tell investigators ranks among the mo...

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 answer that question, they got a call from the jail. jonathan binney wanted to talk. >> ...

To, "my wife, melanie binney." and on the note was her address, just a few miles from the southerns' home. a background check revealed melanie's 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 couldn't deal with it. >> certainly found it to be a vital piece of evidence in the case. knew that we wo...

Binney made what we refer to as a spontaneous utterance of "she's dead, isn't 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. it's just usually a matter of how much dna is deposited on the cigarette butts. >> the saliva on the cigarettes came from jonathan ...