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Thinking of her too. after all these years. they had a new prosecutor. and he was eager to revisit old case files. among them, an unexplained death here on the cliffs. so many years ago. the death of jodi. >> theres this renewed push. since 2002. to look into the cold cases. >> reporter: he covered the trial for the record noup in new jersey. on one hand he says it didnt seem the prosecutor had any reason to pursue the cold case. >> in terms of hard evidence. it had nothing new. >> reporter: the...

Looking at that couple perched high on the 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 prosecutor -- >> reporter: the defense was ready to show how steven far from villain. was the real victim in the story. coming up. >> they destroyed the crime scene area. >> new questions about the evidence and was there another reason why a son might implicate...

>> reporter: sometimes it hurts a case. memories fade. evidence is lost. witnesses die. but time can also put evidence in a new light. such was the case in the trial of steven. accuse of killing his wife nearly two decades ago. >> there is no statute of limitation on murder. >> reporter: 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 cliff and forced her off it. >> if he has lie, ...

Friend, telling them that jody was terrified of her husband. >> possibly she was telling everyone if something happens to me it was my husband. >> it was another woman in steven l stevens life that swayed the jury. recounting to her 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 wasnt jody who slipped but her husband with that menacing statement. they believed it wasnt just a fall from the cliff...

Once they let people fly again, the lawmakers could fly again safely and on time, all of the urgency went away and its really quite disappointing and quite tragic. >> sam, give us the cliffs note version anecdotedly of something youve seen in your reporting thus far that people who havent read your work would understand. >> oh, god, theres so much of it. public defenders, for instances are one of these things no one really knows about. public defenders play a huge role. public defenders are goin...

Urgency went away and its really quite disappointing and quite tragic. >> sam, give us the cliffs note version anecdotedly of something youve seen in your reporting thus far that people who havent read your work would understand. >> oh, god, theres so much of it. public defenders, for instances are one of these things no one really knows about. public defenders play a huge role. public defenders are going without investigators are for their defense work. can you imagine a lawyer without an inves...

Huge story with this headline. secret assault on terrorism widens on two continents. with u.s. troops starting to leave iraq and plans for the same in afghanistan next year, how many other countries are we fighting in? and how long will we do it? mark mazzetti is one of the "times" reporters on that story. were also joined by cia officer bob baer who writes for time.com. i was thinking this weekend that saturday morning dr. laura was probably elated when she saw how big that mosque story got fro...

Why dont you give us the cliffs note version of what you reported? >> sure, the gist of the story is that quietly they are expanding a number of operations. its not just in afghanistan or iraq or even pakistan, which we do write a lot about with the cia drone campaign. its in places like yemen and the horn of africa, like somalia. yemen is a particular focus of the investigation buzz its a country with an al qaeda presence and training of yemeni forces but also air strikes on suspected al qaeda ...

Sundays "new york times" had a huge headline. secret assault on terrorism widens on two continents. with u.s. troops starting to leave iraq and plans for the same in afghanistan next year, how many other countries are we fighting? how long will we do it? mark mazzetti is one of the "times" reporters on that story. were also joined by cia officer bob baer who writes for time.com. i was thinking dr. laura was probably elated when she saw how big the mosque story got from friday night because it kn...

You ever think what you were doing was dangerous? >> you know, i was a water safety instructor, lifeguard, swim team coach and i went out to rock quarries and stone quarries and dived off the cliffs. i had been out there my entire freshman year, but the day before my sophomore year was to end, i took one more swim, one more dive. i was about 15 feet to the left of where i was diving for over a year. i hit the bottom and injured my spinal cord. >> and that definitely took you on a completely diff...