although the signature was illegible, the name at the top of the note was clear, melanie binney.ce 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 checked, looking to see whether allen southern had called jonathan binney, no -- not an scintilla of connection, other than both were members of 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. guys, it's just the two of you. the setting is just right. but here's the thin