high on those cliffs on a summer night? steven s new wife says the prosecution has it all wrong. my husband is not capable. that is not the man he is. my husband is sweet, kind, loving, considerate. the defense was ready to show how steven sharp far from villain was the real victim in this story. coming up they destroyed the crime scene area. new questions about the evidence and was there another reason why his son might implicate his dad? who does the money go to? it goes to me. when dateline continues. ip, switch to walgreens. we make it easy to seize the day, so you can get more out of life and medicare part d. just walk right in for savings that will be the highlight of your day.
you were drinking. i lost my wife. my son lost his mom. there was plenty of sympathy among family and friends to be sure. for the man newly widowed, with a small child to raise on his own. his wife had died in a freak accident off a cliff of all places. how could that happen. and that is exactly what police who were there the nice of jody s dead wanted to know, too. right away i got a feeling that it was something definitely wrong. it nagged at rescuer michael. why jody s purse on a ledge just feet plea where her husband said she had fallen. where is she, she should be here. or part of her should be here. either she should be here or her pocketbook with her. another thought dawned on him. if she had tumbled, why hasn t she hit the side of the slcliff?
stunning confession. he ran to tell the other detectives, but they had just spent hours grilling the man. we weren t getting that feeling that a re-interview at that point would have done gh . anything. but they still believed they could find solid evidence to implicate steven sharp, but they didn t. the cause of death at that time was listed as undetermined, so officially it wasn t a homicide. in time, the detectives moved on to other cases. steven sharp moved on too. 14 years after his wife s death, remarried. tina sharp says he s been a loving ideal husband. it was like we were two on puzzle pieces that were made for each other where w just each of us complemented and completed the other person. but even in this happy new life he says he s never forgotten about jody. but he might have been surprised to learn that someone else was
and sometimes they would call and hang up on her. in fact he learned gentlemengentlemejody had served her husband divorce papers and less than two weeks later she was dead. the timing made him even more eager to talk to the widower sharp. there was a hit-down with mr. sharp. yes. two days after his wife s death, steven sharp was freely answering detective s questions. yes, he told them, he and his wife were talking divorce as they had sometimes done during their tell pet chew us marriage. and it was true, there were other women. he told us they had an open marriage. he said he had been with 50 to 60 women. and she was okay with it according to him? yeah. but he told detectives he and jody had become unhappy with their free love lifestyle, so they came to this romantic if
i did not. i didn t hurt jody. i didn t push her. i didn t cause her death. i didn t kill my wife. we talked to steven scharf at the bergen koubtter geagain ber jail. he and his wife say they paid a high price for something he didn t do. our daughter is 2 1/2 and still never been held by her father. because we don t have contact visits. it s not just a tragedy for jody, it s a tranlg dgedy for j. it s a tragedy for my wife, it s a tragedy for my daughter. and for myself. still he decided not to take the stand in his own defense. but told dateline that what he first said years ago about his wife s death was the truth. i wish it didn t happen. i wish we had gone to the comedy club. i m innocent.