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Stuck my head over, and i just yelled. jodi. jodi, talk to me. i just yelled down there. >> but no response. he grabbed a flashlight and flagged down a motorist, who came here to the palisades interstate parkway p police station. lieutenant walter seary was on duty. >> this will he came to that doorwi it was a very quiet nigh. and all hell broke loose. >> the frantic man was telling them a woman had fallen from the lookout above and that her husband was waiting for help. police called in michael...

>> we talked to stephen scharf at the bergen county jail, where he was held for more than two years after his arrest in 2008. he and his wife, tina, say theyve paid a high price for something he didnt do. >> our daughters 2 1/2 and has still never been held by her father. because we dont have contact visits. >> its not just a tragedy for jody. its a tragedy for jon. its a tragedy for my wife. its a tragedy for my daughter. and for myself. >> still, he decided not to take the stand in his own def...

The jurys about to decide the fate of stephen scharf. heres chris jansing with the conclusion of our story. >> 18 years after a night that ended in his wifes death off a cliff stephen scharf stood accused of murder by the state of new jersey. and through it all one thing he wants you to know is this. he would never have laid a hand on his beloved jody. never. >> stephen, did you kill your wife, jody? >> i did not hurt jody. i did not. >> did you throw her off the palisades? >> no, i did not. i d...

Where the binoculars are, and then walked up, you know, to this sort of open view. >> he says they then turned and took ahe narrow well-worn path those rocks. they sat there as the night fell around them. heou with his back against the rock, holding her as she sat directly in front of him. >> at some point something goes terribly wrong. >> yes. >> he says he stood up intending to go back to the car to get wine and the blanket. for whatever reason jodi stood up too. the edge of the rock was at he...

At that couple perched high on those cliffs on a summer night? stephens 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 prosecutor -- >> the defense was ready to show how stephen scharf, 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 a son might implicate h...

North. finally, about 30 feet away, the beams landed on something white. it was jodi, lying motionless next to a tree. >> there was a lot of blood on that tree. and the blood was actually draining down the tree. thats where the severe impact took. thats whereer she really -- >> jodi sharp had not survived the fall. to chiofi it was clear. she had slammed into that tree. asd they began to move the bod he noticed something else. >> she had an odor of an alcoholic beverage. that emanated from her b...

>> errenberg 3w4r50e6believed ta stunning confession. he ran to tell the other detectives, including lineham. but they had just spent hours grilling the man. >> we werent getting that feeling, that a reinterview at that point would have done anything. >> the detectives still believed they could find solid evidence to implicate stephen scharf, but they didnt. >> we took it as far as we could go. it hadnt been -- the cause of death at that time was listed as undetermined. so officially it wasnt a ...

Me? >> and thats when an officer walked into the room and broke the news to stephen. jodi was gone. >> i dont even remember who came in and told me. >> and what was your reaction? >>t denial. it was, you know, how could this -- how could this happen? >> that question would haunt him and many others, and it would take years for the answers to finally come. >> coming up -- >> he was rubbing his eyes to make it look like he was crying. >> you thought he was faking tears? >> absolutely. >> curious b...

In many cultures, young men would stay with their families until their 40s. welcome back to "dateline". the jury is about to decide the fate of steven sharp. heres chris jansen with the conclusion to our story. 18 years after a night that ended in his wifes death off a cliff, steven sharp stood accused of murder by the state of new jersey. and through it all, one thing he wants you to know is this. he would never have laid a hand on his beloved jodi. never. >> steven, did you kill your wife,...

>> i did not. i did not. i didnt hurt jodi. i didnt push her. i didnt cause her to die. i didnt kill my wife. we talked to steven sharp where he was held for two years after 2008. he and his wife tina said they paid a high price for something he didnt know. >> our daughter is 2 1/2. we dont have contact visits. >> its not just a tragedy for jodi, its a tragedy for john. its a tragedy for my wife. its a tragedy for my daughter. and for myself. >> still, he decided not to take the stand in his o...