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The former soap star, 49, told followers her heart was broken and she was still in a state of shock. No cause of death was given.

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Were, but i was stunned. >> what did you do. >> i got down on my stomach, put my head over and yelled. jody, jody, 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 palisade police station. this lieutenant was on duty. >> until he came through that door, it was a quiet night. >> the frantic man was telling him a woman had fallen from the lookout above and that her husband was waiting for help. the police called in m...

Palisades, to their spot. steven remembers pulling up to the scenic lookout sitting in the car with jody, sharing a wine cooler. >> there were other people sitting in their cars. we walked up, looked over the spot where the binoculars are and walked up to this sort of open view. >> he says they then turned and took a narrow well-worn path to the rocks. they sat there as the night fell around him. he with his back against the rocks holding her as she sat directly in front of him. >> at some point...

Of lawn chairs, a cooler and shed bring her work from graduate school. >> they had been escaping to this magical place for years. ever since they were newlyweds in an apartment in new jersey. up here, the air was fresh. and the view seemed limitless. >> its sort of framed by the trees that you could look down to the right and see the view of george washington bridge. >> what they kornt see from here, of course, was the future. had they caught a glimpse of what was to come, surely they would have...

Hours. were you sleeping? were you eating? >> drinking. >> you were drinking? >> i lost my wife, my son lost hi mom. >> reporter: 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 thats exactly what police who were there the night of jodys death wanted to know too. >> right away i got a feeling that there was something defin...

There was no blood or hair anywhere on the rocks. and the location of jodys body seemed off to cioffi. way off. >> she was like 30 to 40 feet away from us to the north. a person falls offer the cliff usually theyre going to go south or theyre going to go right down. >> reporter: someone else was scratching his head about that night for different reasons. it had to do with stevens behavior while the search was under way. officer walter serrie was surprised stephen was willing to leave the lookout...

Someone to tell him what had happened to his wife. >> do you remember whats going through your mind at that point? >> how badly is she hurt? >> thats when an officer broke the news to steven. jody was gone. >> i dont remember who told me. >> that was your reaction? >> denial. how could this -- how could this happen? >> that question would haunt him and many others. 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. >...

>> im saying, shes not here, at the first point, i said maybe this is a hoax, maybe she never went off the cliff. >> he and another rescuer began to walk along the base pointing their flashlights north. finally about 30 feet away, they landed on something white. it was jody lying motionless next to a tree. >> there was a lot of blood on that tree. the blood was draining down the tree. thats where the severe impact took. >> jody sharp had not survived the fall. it was clear. she had slammed into ...

From a cops point of view things were adding up and not in stevens favor. >> not just one thing. it was like the totality of the circumstances. every little thing is clicking in my mind, and im saying to myself, you know, this isnt right, something is wrong here. >> gut instinct is one thing, evidence is another. maybe their view of steven was too jaundiced. there really was nothing to indicate that jodys fall was anything but an accident. a few months later the ruling was in. the burgen county ...