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>> women called the house. and sometimes they call and hang up on her. >> in fact, he learned jodi had served her husband divorce papers on september 8th, 1992. less than two weeks later, she was dead at the base of the palisades. the timing made him even more eager to talk to the widower. >> there was a sitdown with mr. sharp, hes consented to talk, right? >> two days after his wifes death. steven sharp was freely answering detectives questions, yes, he told them. he and his wife were talking d...

Herself. >> the person on the bottom half in both of those is who 1234. >> jodi scharf. >> the recordkeeper of a dating service testified that jodis name was on an application. she even checked off the interests shed like to share with a mate. the attorney offered that as proof of stephen and jodis open marriage. what really rangeled the defense, what had torn at the heart of stephen was the testimony of his son jonathan. >> i remember her showing me her bruises. >> he had painted his father as ...

Center had just happened. he thought he could read between the lines in the police notes he reviewed the day after jodis death. >> he did not react like somebody who just lost his wife should have. he quickly learned from jodis friends that this was a couple not in love, but in crisis. the subject wasnt wine and roses on those cliffs, it was divorce. >> she was going to go through with it, yes. absolutely. jodis long time friend said jodi had been determined to take her 10-year-old son jonathan ...

Said no. >> he believed that was a stunning confession. he ran to tell the other detectives, including lynam. but they had just spent hours grilling the man. >> we werent getting that feeling, that reinterview at that point would have done anything. >> the detectives still believe they could find solid evidence to implicate steven sharp, but they didnt. >> we took it as far as we could go. the cause of death was listed as undetermined. so officially it wasnt a homicide about. >> in time, the det...

Else was thinking of her too after all these years. burgen county had a new prosecutor and he was eager to revisit old case files. among them, an unexplained death here on the cliffs of the palisades so many years ago. the death of jodi sharp. >> there was this renewed push since 2002 to look into the cold cases. >> he covered the trial for the record newspaper in new jersey. it didnt seem the prosecutor had any reason to pursue the cold case. >> in terms of hard evidence, it had absolutely noth...

Marital spat. >> the prosecution paints a picture of someone who 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 saying one thing and not following through. >> though it is true, stephen did not want a divorce, he says he wanted to give the marriage another chance. and as for that former girlfriend, terry schofield. she recounted stephens misstatement just before jodis death. >> ju...

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