scharf s body. why would stephen have killed his wife? the biggest reason, the prosecutors argued, was that stephen did not want a divorce. he didn t want a custody fight and he didn t want to split assets with jody. and there was yet another motive for stephen said the prosecutor. a potential payout. usaa life insurance company. an insurance representative testified about a $500,000 policy taken out against jody scharf months before her death. payable to a primary beneficiary. can you tell us the policy owner. stephen f. scharf. jody scharf was simply worth more dead than alive. her friend, mary anne testified that stephen feared jody might do something violent if she pushed for that divorce. even so, she was going to get
everywhere. she did not. there were no visible injuries on the back of mrs. scharf s body. but why would stephen have killed his wife? the biggest reason the prosecutor argued was that stephen did not want a divorce. he didn t want a custody fight and he didn t want to split assets with jody. and there was yet another motive for stephen, said the prosecutor. a potential payout. usaa life insurance company. an insurance representative testified about a $500,000 policy taken out against jody scharf months before her death. payable to a primary beneficially. can you tell us the policy owner? stephen f. scharf. jody scharf was simply worth more dead than alive. her friend testified that jody feared stephen might do something violent if she pushed for that divorce.
prosecutor argued was that stephen did not want a divorce. he didn t want a custody fight and he didn t want to split assets with jody. and there was yet another motive for stephen, said the prosecutor. a potential payout. usaa life insurance company. reporter: an insurance representative testified about a $500,000 policy taken out against jody scharf months before her death. payable to a primary beneficially. can you tell us the policy owner. stephen f. scharf. reporter: jody scharf was simply worth more dead than alive. her friend testified that jody feared stephen might do something violent if she pushed for that divorce. even so, marian said, jody was determined to get away from her husband. she was going to have divorce papers served on stephen and she
he didn t want a custody fight. he didn t want to split assets with jody. and there was yet another motive for stephen, said the prosecutor, a potential payout. usaa life insurance company. reporter: an insurance representative testified about a $500,000 policy taken out against jody scharf months before her death. payable to a primary beneficiary. can you tell us the policy owner? stephen f. scharf. reporter: jody scharf was worth more dead than alive. her friend marion testifieded that jody feared stephen fight do something violent if she pushed for divorce. even so, marion said, jody was determined to get away from her husband. she was going to have divorce papers served on stephen and she was very afraid of it.
the biggest reason, the prosecutor argued, was that stephen did not want a divorce. he didn t want a custody fight. he didn t want to split assets with jody. and there was yet another motive for stephen, said the prosecutor, a potential payout. usaa life insurance company. reporter: an insurance representative testified about a $500,000 policy taken out against jody scharf months before her death. payable to a primary beneficiary. can you tell us the policy owner? stephen f. scharf. reporter: jody scharf was worth more dead than alive. her friend marion testifieded that jody feared stephen fight do something violent if she pushed for divorce. even so, marion said, jody was determined to get away from her husband. she was going to have divorce papers served on stephen and she was very afraid of it.