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High on those cliffs on a summer night? stevens new wife says the prosecution has it all wrong. >> my husband is not capable. that is not the man he is. my husband is sweet, kind, loving, considerate. >> the defense was ready to show how steven sharp far from villain was the real victim in this story. coming up -- >> they destroyed the crime scene area. >> new questions about the evidence and was there another reason why his son might implicate his dad? >> who does the money go to? >> it goes ...

Stunning confession. he ran to tell the other detectives, but they had just spent hours grilling the man. >> we werent getting that feeling that a re-interview at that point would have done gh . anything. >> but they still believed they could find solid evidence to implicate steven sharp, but they didnt. >> the cause of death at that time was listed as undetermined, so officially it wasnt a homicide. >> in time, the detectives moved on to other cases. steven sharp moved on too. 14 years after hi...

Being called a killer. but his defense attorney argued there was no new evidence in this case, no new eyewitnesses. only new opions. >> were talking about the same old facts and circumstances. >> he said the state was hoping to win a murder conviction by painting his client as a terrible husband, that it couldnt prove he was a killer in 1992 and it couldnt prove it today. >> my client steven sharp has been wrongfully charged with her death. >> and one reason the prosecutor couldnt prove murder h...

Area. >> they didnt even bother to question potential eyewitnesses he said. instead, they cleared visitors from the lookout. >> there might have been someone who saw something or heard something. >> there might have been. there is a possibility that might have happened. >> and if police were so suspicious of hisr the defense why didnt they videotape their interview with him, that way jurors could have judged steven sharps supposedly odd demeanor for themselves. >> why didnt you? >> he wasnt in c...

And sometimes they would call and hang up on her. >> in fact he learned gentlemengentlemejody had served her husband divorce papers and less than two weeks later she was dead. the timing made him even more eager to talk to the widower sharp. >> there was a hit-down with mr. sharp. >> yes. >> two days after his wifes death, steven sharp was freely answering detectives questions. yes, he told them, he and his wife were talking divorce as they had sometimes done during their tell pet chew us marria...

The biggest reason the prosecutor argued was that steven did not want a divorce. he didnt want a custody fight. and he didnt want to split assets with jody. and there was yet another motive for steven said the prosecutor. a potential payout. >> usa life insurance company. >> an insurance representative testified about a $500,000 policy taken out against jody sharp months before her death. payable to a primary beneficiary. >> can you tell us the policy owner? >> steven f. sharp. >> jody sharp was...

>> you didnt think this was a horrible accident? >> no. >> there wasnt any smoking gun really. just something dark he 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 wa...

Maybe this is a hoax, maybe she never really went off the cliff. >> he and another rescuer began to walk along the base pointing their flashlights north. finally about 30 feet away, they landed on something white. it was jovi lying motionless next to a tree. >> there was a lot of blood on that tree. it was draining down the tree. thats where the severe impact took. >> jody sharp had not survived the fall. it was clear she had slammed into that tree. as they began to move the body, he he noticed ...

Papers served on steven and she was very afraid of it. >> yet was steven violent enough to on kill hkill his wife? and unlikely but powerful witness was about to testify against steven sharp. >> im here for my mother. >> his own son took the stand against him. now a businessman, jonathan sharp painted his father as an angry violent man who terrorized his mother. >> did you see that abuse? >> i did. >> jonathan sharp said he realized his father had likely killed his mother only after that arrest ...

There was no blood or hair anywhere on the rocks. and the location of jodys body on seemed off. >> she was like 30 to on 40 feet away from us to the north. a person falls off the cliff, usually they will go south or right down. should have been right down where i got off the reasons. >> someone else was scratching his head about that night for different reasons. it had to do with stevens behavior while the search was under way. officer walter serig was surprised steven was willing to leave the l...