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The location of jodys body seemed off, way off. >> she was like 30 to 40 feet away, from us to the north, of a person falls off the clip theyre going to go south, or theyre going to go right down, shouldve been right down where i got off the ropes. thats where she shouldve been. >> someone else subscribe chings head about that night for different reasons. it had to do with stevens behavior, while the search was underway. officer walter surrey was surprised, stephen was willing to leave the look ...

>> into the tree canopy, which then carried her through the abyss and into that distant tree. >> this is what i think happened to explain those injuries of the chest and of the head. >> but there was another bubble to burst in the prosecutions case, the motive for murder. stephen scharf wasnt a greedy killer, his attorney said. his client never made a claim on that insurance policy. it was only after the money was turned over to the state, years later, he said, that stephen scharf even bothered ...

Friend, telling them that jody was terrified of her husband. >> that possibly she was telling everyone if something happens to me its my husband. >> and it was another woman in stephens life who also swayed the jury. terry scofield recounting what stephen said to her weeks before jodys death. that his stress would soon be over. >> that was something that pushed me towards what we decided in the end. >> it was the light bulb. >> to them it wasnt jody who slipped but her husband, with that menacin...

And the location of jodys body seemed off to chiofi, way off. >> she was like 30 to 40 feet away from us to the north. a person falls off the cliff, usually theyre going to go south or theyre going to go right down. she should have been right down where i got off the ropes. thats where she should have been. >> someone else was scratching his head about that night for different reasons. it had to do with stephens behavior while the search was under way. officer walter sirry was surprised stephen ...

>> there wasnt any smoking gun really. just something dark lineham thought he could read between the lines in the police notes he reviewed the day after jodys death. >> he did not react like somebody who 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 jodys friends that this was a couple not in love but in crisis. the subject wasnt wine and roses on those cliffs. it was divorce....

When the officer heard stephen describe how his wife had fallen, he made a mental note. >> there was no emotion in it. no emotion at all. like he was reading a script. >> did it occur to you, well, maybe hes in shock? >> no. ive seen people who have lost loved ones, and ive never seen anybody act that way. >> but it was a particular moment later inside the station house that really caught the officers attention. >> he asked if he could get a drink from the water fountain. he was looking like ove...

Each other, stephen said. to kiss and make up. >> the spot where they went is not a spot you would go to reconcile with anybody. >> detectives werent buying the story for another reason. they had found something suspicious inside scharfs car. a bag filled with items youd expect for a romantic picnic and one you would not. a hammer. >> you have your wine, cheese, crackers, opener, claw hammer. i mean, red flags are going up. they reached the top of the pole at that point. >> did you think that mi...

Determined that this could not have been an accidental fall. >> in december of 2008 detectives paid one more visit to stephen scharf. >> they wouldnt tell me what it was for. i had no idea what this was about. i mean, it didnt make sense. >> 16 years after that fatal night on the cliff police were back and stephen scharf was in for a shock. >> after all these years you thought it was done. >> not until they reached behind and hand me this thing, this arrest warrant. >> coming up -- the case head...

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. >> reporter: dr. marianne clayton was the bergen county medical examiner who first ruled the circumstances of jodys death could not be determined. now on second look she said the victims wounds, or lack of them...