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Welcome back to "dateline extra." we continue now with "over the edge." once again, chris jansing. >> stephen scharf is not guilty! >> 18 years after the death of his first wife, more than a decade after the investigation first stalled, stephen scharf was being called a killer. but his defense attorney, edward linkus, argued there was no new evidence in this case, no new eyewitnesses, only new opinions. >> im talking about the same old facts and circumstances. >> valinkas said the state was hopi...

I dont know. >> the defense attorney also argued that police misinterpreted what his client said in his home just hours later. >> my client never said this wasnt an accident. >> and as for that hammer police thought was a weapon -- >> the hammer was examined by the forensic experts. there was nothing found on that hammer. >> and the defense attorney pressed the medical examiner on her flip-flop. undetermined manner of death in 93, now it was a homicide? really? >> are you trying to say that your...

Picture of someone who frankly is furious about this divorce. >> no one person ever indicated that my client was furious over this divorce. they had talked about divorce for years. maybe she was, you know, saying one thing and not following through. >> oh it is true stephen scharf did not want a divorce, he says he wanted to give the marriage another chance. and as for that former girlfriend, terry scofield, she recounted stephens mysterious statement just before jodys death. >> just give me to ...

>> and one reason the prosecutor couldnt prove murder had to do with slop yip police work, the defense attorney said, suggesting it had been like keystone cops on the palisades that fatal night. >> you never photographed the body before you moved it, did you? >> no, sir. >> why didnt they take photographs? they destroyed the crime scene area. >> they didnt even bother to question potential eyewitnesses, he said. instead, they cleared visitors from the lookout. >> there might have been someone wh...