dad as a good guy. i think he was a, you know, fairly decent guy. fairly decent parent. it was only after detectives told him his dad had just been arrested that the son turned on his father. she got coffee thrown at her by him. father. before you found out that your dad was arrested, did you lie yes, sir. did you lie more than once? yes, sir. why would jonathan turn on his father and lie? the defense lawyer said it was jonathan, not his dad, who was motivated by greed. if steven sharp was convicted, his son would get all that insurance money. who does the money go to? it goes to me. in the end lawyer called steven sharp s son a spoiled brat. that s a spoiled kid.
club. i m innocent. but had the jury gotten that same message? when they walked into that deliberating room for the first time some jurors, in fact, planned to vote not guilty. there wasn t enough evidence, for me. that s what it was. others were thinking guilty. it was several thing. no one thing that had made up my mind. the jurors went back and forth over the evidence. and here s what they came to believe. that jodi was likely drunk, and that her husband knew it. that if that was the case, why would he let her get so close to the edge of a cliff? as the husband, knowing that your wife was drinking, would you bring her there? the jurors deliberated three days before deciding whether steven sharp should be found guilty or not guilty of a single count of murder. on the charge of murder, your
him, if jody had tumbled, why hadn t she hit the side of the cliffs? there was no blood or hair anywhere on the rocks, and the location of jody s body seemed off to chioffi. way off. she was like 30 to 40 feet away from us to the north. a person falls off the cliff, usually they re going to go south or right down. should have been right down where i got off the ropes. that s where she should have been. someone else was scratching their head that night for different reasons. it had to do with steven s behavior while the search was under way. officer williams was surprised steven was willing to leave while rescuers were looking for jody. did he give any indication i don t want to leave, my wife could still be down there? no, not at all. if i tell you it was my wife, girlfriend, whoever would have had to pry me from that scene.
the palisades, to their spot. steven remembers pulling up to the scenic lookout, sitting in the car with jodi, sharing a wine cooler. there were other people sitting in the spot, the spot where the binoculars and walked up into the this sort of open view. he says they then turned and took a well-worn path into the those rocks. they sat there he with the rock against her back holding her. at some point something goes terribly wrong. yes. he says he stood up to go back to the car to get wine and blanket. for whatever reason, jodi stood up, too, the edge of the rock was at her feet. what was your last glimpse of your wife? just standing up and, you know, stumbling forward.
them that she was terrified of her husband. possibly she was telling everyone if something happened to me it s my husband. it was another woman in steven s leif that swayed the jury. that was something that pushed me towards what we decided in the end. it was the light bulb. to them, it wasn t jodey who slipped, but her husband. 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 jodey s tumultuous open marriage. so, you think this was a moral judgment yes. on the part of jurors? i suppose some people would say, well, he was punished for