it s just crystal, hard crystals. white salt. you can probably taste it. to one of the wettest. these are areas really for the adventurous traveller. this isn t india on tap. i m on a quest to find out how history, religion and politics have shaped india. and also, meet the people who call this intriguing and sometimes overwhelming country, home. it s going to be an amazing journey. for thousands of years, india found its riches and influence through international trade. at the heart of this enterprise was the sea. and the state of gujarat,
i m saying, she s not here. i said maybe this is a hoax. maybe she never went off the cliff. reporter: he and another rescuer began to walk along the base, pointing their flashlights north. finally, about 30 feet away, the beams landed on something white. it was jody, lying motionless next to a tree. there was a lot of blood on that tree, and the bleed was draining down the tree. that s where a severe impact took. reporter: jody sharp had not survived the fall. it was clear to the officer she had slammed into that tree. as they began to move the body, he noticed something else. she had an odor of an alcoholic beverage that emanated from her body. reporter: so when you smelled that, did you think maybe she had had too much to drink and fell? that entered my mind, yes. reporter: at that moment, steven sharp was sitting in a room at the police station,
did mr. democker flee or not? that s a yes or no question. no, he did not flee. reporter: and steve s sister sharon had a simple explanation for those coincidences, the night of the murder. the circumstantial evidence. like his dead cell phone battery. i think most of us with cell phones can appreciate that later in the day it s not uncommon for the battery to go. but their ears perked up when he drew the route and part of it came within a mile of the house on bridle path. well, he lived out there. for many years. so that was a favored trail. they also made a great deal of the tracks that they found in the property. the shoe prints that must ve been his, the tire tracks that must ve been his. nobody knows whose those are. he did buy a pair at one point. but he doesn t know if he kept them. he said, i never keep any shoes for more than six months. he ran all the time. no shoes lasted more than six months. and he bought them a couple years earlier, is that right. yeah
jail to bring some pencil and paper. there was a glass between them. mr. democker had brought a document with him that he placed on the glass, so that they could view it. reporter: according to renee, steve himself wrote that document. then asked his daughter charlotte, just 17 at the time, to copy it down. mr. democker then asked them to send that document which became known as the anonymous e-mail to mr. sears and to the prosecutor s office. reporter: mr. sears was john sears. one of steve s defense attorneys. steve s reasoning, according to steve s sister sharon, he d heard that story from an inmate in that air-vent conversation and desperately wanted to get the story out, and investigated. the death penalty was still on the table. so, steve was terrified. we were terrified. i can certainly appreciate when
if we pause and ask more questions and show curiosity, what are you really afraid of or anxious about? and allow that to just have space and then we would find so many more people tracking along with us. the only thing that we have to fear is fear itself. they say there are only three kinds of stories in the world. man vs. nature, man vs. man and man vs. himself. but what if we tried more man with nature stories. man with man. man at peace with himself.