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Life, he says, hes never forgot about jody. but he might have been surprised to learn someone 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 the one here at the cliff of the palisades so many years ago, the death of jody sharp. >> it was this renewed push since 2002 to look into the cold cases. >> he covered the trial for the newspaper in new jersey. on one hand, he says, it didnt seem the prosecutor h...

And john bu loogsy and testified at the trial of o. j. simpson. he was about to turn up the heat on a very cold case. >> hes reviewed the evidence and has determined this could not have been an accidental fall. >> in december of 2008 detectives paid one more visit to steven sharp. >> they wouldnt tell me what it was for. i had no idea what this buwas about. it didnt make sense. >> 15 years after that fatal night on the cliff, police were back and steven sharp was in for a shock. after all these ...

And two-hour appointment windows. click, call or visit a store today. jodys death on these cliffs had been a horrible accident. her husband said so. and the medical examiner wasnt arguing with him. but detectives have a kind of sixth sense about cases.

She did not. >> there were no visible injuries on the back of her body. >> but why would stephen kill his wife. the biggest reason the prosecutor argued is he didnt want a divorce, he didnt want a custody fight, and he didnt want to split assets with jody. and there was yet another motive for stephen said the prosecutor, a potential pay out. >> ussa life insurance company. >> an insurance representative testified about a $500,000 policy taken out against jody scharf months before her death, paya...

Those other women did not bother jody at all. she was seeing other people herself. >> the person on the bottom half in both of those is who? >> jody scharf. >> the record keeper of a dating service testified that jodys 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 jodys open marriage. but what really wrinkled the defense, what had torn at the heart of stephen scharf was the testimony of his son, jo...

She determined that jody had been drunk the night she fell off the cliffs. jody had a blood alcohol level of .12. that was over the limit. >> it would be equivalent to approximately four average sized drinks, wine or beer, something like that. >> a drunken slip and fall, argued the defense. to back that up, the lawyer had his own heavy hitter. famed pathologist dr. cyril wekt. wekt posted a résume of star-studded profiles, too. as high profile as the prosecutions dr. baden. only wekt had a tota...

Sons reaction but little else from those dark hours. were you sleeping? were you eating? >> drinking. i lost my wife and my s-- >> his wife had died in a freak accident, off a cliff in 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 there was something definitely wrong. >> it nagged at rescuer michael chioffi. why was jodys purse on a ledge just below where her purse had fallen? >> either ...

Said. jody and stephen had been talking break up for years. those divorce papers just the latest legal salvo in an ongoing marital spat. >> the prosecutor paints a picture of someone, who frankly is fureia 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. >> though it is true stephen scharf did not want a divorce, he says he want...

Case of jody scharf. her body landed 50 feet out from the top of a cliff, and 30 feet to the north. >> she had to have been propelled from that point. >> jody had to have been thrown or pushed to her death, he said. and likely from another spot entirely on those cliffs. he wasnt the only expert who saw it that way. >> the head and chest injuries are not consistent with someone that tumbles down the cliff face. >> dr. marryanne clayton was the burgen county medical examiner who first ruled the ci...

It was telling james something sinter had just happened. so you didnt think was a horrible accident? >> no. >> there wasnt any smoking gun, really. just something dark he thought he could read between the lines notice police notes he reviewed the day after jodys degtd. >> he did not react to somebody that just lost his wife should have reacted. >> and so the detective moved his investigation from the physical evidence to the less tangible clues. he quickly learned from the friends this was a cou...