at the first point, i said maybe this was a hoax. maybe she never went off the cliff. he and another rescuer began to walk along the base, pointing flashlights north. finally, about 30 feet away, the beams landed on something white. it was jody lying motionless next to a tree. there was a lot of blood on that tree. the blood was actually raining down the tree. that s where the severe impact took. jody sharp had not survived the fall. it was clear she had slammed into that tree. as he began to move the body, he noticed something else. a note of an alcoholic beverage that emanated from her body. when you smelled that, did you think maybe she had had too much to drink and fell? entered my mind, yes. at that moment, steven sharp was sitting in a room at the police station waiting for someone to tell him what had happened to his wife.
from the kitchen with that hammer. he forgot to put it in the garage. he put it in the basket with the picnic items. it was convenient. they asked if they could check out the drawer and the rest of steven s house that night. he agreed. as it turned out, something potentially far more telling was happening away from the action. i said, look, mr. scharf, i m your local police department. he was a local officer told to keep an eye on mr. scharf as they looked through his house. he started talking to him about jody and steven interrupted me and he looks at me and he goes, you don t believe me. then the officer says, scharf said something that almost knocked him off his feet. i said i believe an accident occurred. i said, was it an accident? he put his head down and he said no.
anywhere on the rocks. the location of jody s body seemed off to him. way off. she was like 30 to 40 feet away to the north. a person falls aught of the cliff, usually they go south. should have been off where i got off the ropes. someone else was scratching his head about that night for different reasons. it had to do with steven s behavior while the search was under way. the officer was surprised steven was willing to leave the lookout as rescuers were still looking for her. did he give any indication, i don t want to leave, my wife could still be alive down there? no, not at all. he couldn t believe how willingly sharp got into his patrol car. if it was my wife or girlfriend, they would have had to pry me away. he willingly got into the
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 things. there was no one thing. i had made up my mind. the jurors went back and forth over the evidence. and here s what they came to believe. that jody was likely drunk and that her husband knew it. and 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 on jody anne sharp your verdict is? guilty. guilty. later jurors said what united them was the testimony of jody s
as a good guy. i think he was a fairly decent guy. it was only after detectives told him his dad had just been arrested that the son turned on his father. before you found out that your dad was arrested, did you lie? yes. and did you lie more than once? yes. 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 the lawyer called steven sharp s son a spoiled brat. that sounds like some spoiled kid who was not a credible witness. in closing insisted this wasn t