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>> time is an invisible but crucial player for both sides. >> 16 years. >> sometimes it hurts a case. memories fade. evidence is lost. but time can also put evidence in a new light. >> such was the case of the trial of steven sharp, accused of killing his wife nearly two decades ago. >> there is no statute of limitations on murder. >> the prosecutor promised the evidence would tell a story as simple as it was brutal. a husband determined to avoid a costly divorce lured his wife to the edge of a ...

>> its what he didnt see that confused him. there was no sign that the womans body had also hit that ledge or any part of the cliffs. >> nothing, no blood, no hair, no clothing, no fibers, no skin. >> by that point, the officer had arrived at the lookout. since there was nothing the husband could do to help in the rescue, siri was told to get him out of the way and drove him back down to police headquarters. steven recounted the awful moment when his wife disappeared. >> we were walking and she ...

>> 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...

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...

Get away from her husband. >> she was going to have divorce papers served on steven. and she was very afraid of him. >> yet was stephen violent enough to kill his wife? an unlikely but powerful witness was about to testify against stephen scharf. >> im here for my mother. >> his own son took the stand against him. now a businessman, jonathan painted his father as an angry violent man who terrorized his mother. >> did you see that abuse? >> i did. >> jonathan said he realized his father had likel...

He was reading a script. >> did it occur to you, maybe hes in shock? >> no, ive seen people lose loved ones and ive never seen anybody act that way. >> 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 a water fountain. he was splashing water into his face, rubbing his eyes to make it look like he was crying. >> you thought he was faking tears. >> a death scene where the pieces didnt connect. a husband w...

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