verdict is guilty. guilty. later, jurors said what united them was the testimony of jodi s friend, telling them that jodi was terrified of her husband. that possibly she was telling everyone if something happens to me, it s my husband. it was another woman in steven s life who also swayed the jury. terry recalling what steven said to her weeks before jodi s 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 wasn t jodi who slipped but her husband with that menacing statement. they believe it wasn t just a fall from the cliffs. it was a cold-blooded execution. steven sharp was sentenced to life in prison. he says the jurors condemned him not on the facts, but for his and jodi s tumultuous open
who was not a credible witness. in closing, he insisted this wasn t a murder case, just a sad story about a woman who tumbled drunkenly to her death. this case is an accident. nothing more. nothing less. soon it would be in the hands of a jury. coming up it was the light bulb. you couldn t help but think oh, that s interesting. the jurors speak. what would they decide? steven, did you kill your wife jodi? the verdict when dateline . continues.
i did not kill jodi. what happened on the cliff s edge? hello, and welcome to dateline. when police got notice someone had fallen off a cliff they weren t surprised. but even they could not guess it would take almost 20 years to find out what really happened to a woman out on an evening hike with her husband. every couple has it, a shared song, a favorite movie or maybe a special place. steven sharp says for him and his wife jodi this was it, two
it was telling james something sinter had just happened. so you didn t think was a horrible accident? no. there wasn t any smoking gun, really. just something dark he thought he could read between the lines notice police notes he reviewed the day after jody s 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 couple not in love but in crisis. the subject wasn t wine and roses on those cliffs. it was divorce. she was going to go through with it. yes, absolutely. jody s long time friend told detectives that jody had been determined to take her 10-year-old son jonathan and leave her husband. she was convinced steven had been cheating on her.
i literally have no idea what i m getting, dennis quaid. that s why they re making it simple, man in cafe. and more affordable. thank you, dennis quaid. you re welcome. that s a prop apple. i d tell you more, but i only have 30 seconds. so here s a dramatic shot of their tagline so you ll remember it. esurance. it s surprisingly painless. it was the worst night of his life and now steven sharp in the early morning hours of september 31, 1992 had to tell his 10-year-old son jonathan his mother was dead. i said, come on, jonathan, we need to take a walk and i told him. and he immediately burst into tears. and cried like a baby. i wasn t ashamed. he remembered his distraught