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I dont know. >> the defense attorney also argued that police misinterpreted what his client said in his home just hours later. >> my client never said this wasnt an accident. >> and as for that hammer police thought was a weapon -- >> the hammer was examined by the forensic experts. there was nothing found on that hammer. >> and the defense attorney pressed the medical examiner on her flip-flop. undetermined manner of death in 93, now it was a homicide? really? >> are you trying to say that your...

>> she was like 30 to 40 feet away from us to the north. a person falls off the cliff, usually theyre going to go south or theyre going to go right down. she should have been right down where i got off the ropes. thats where she should have been. >> someone else was scratching his head about that night for different reasons. it had to do with stephens behavior while the search was under way. officer walter sirry was surprised stephen was willing to leave the lookout as rescuers were still lookin...

At that couple perched high on those cliffs on a summer night? stephens 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 -- >> the defense was ready to show how stephen scharf, 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 a son might implicate h...

The top of the cliff and 30 feet to the north. >> she had to have been propelled from that point. >> jody had to have been thrown or pushed to her death, he said, and likely from another spot entirely on those cliffs. he wasnt the only expert who saw it that way. >> the head and chest injuries are not consistent with someone that tumbles down the cliff face. >> reporter: dr. marianne clayton was the bergen county medical examiner who first ruled the circumstances of jodys death could not be dete...

Small child to raise on his own. his wife had died in a freak accident, off a cliff of all places. how could that happen? and thats exactly what police who were there the night of jodys death wanted to know too. >> right away i got the feeling there was something definitely wrong. >> it nagged at rescuer michael chiofi. why was jodys purse on a ledge just feet below where her husband said shed fallen? >> where is she? she should be here. or part of her should be here. >> thats the first thing th...

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. >> e he didnt react like somebody who had just lost his wife should have reacted. >> reporter: so the detective moved 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 wasnt wine and roses on those cliffs. it was divorce. >> she was going to go through...

Something sinister had just happened. >> so you didnt think this was a horrible accident? >> no. >> there wasnt any smoking gun really. just something dark lineham 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 co...

It was telling james something sinter had just happened. so you didnt think was a horrible accident? >> no. >> there wasnt any smoking gun, really. just something dark he thought he could read between the lines notice police notes he reviewed the day after jodys 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 cou...

>> reporter: jodys death on these cliffs had been a horrible accident. her husband said so. and the medical examiner wasnt arguing with him. but detectives have a kind of sixth sense about cases. it was telling james linum something sinister had just happened. so you didnt think this was a horrible accident? >> no. >> reporter: 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. >> e he didn...

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. >> e he didnt react like somebody who had just lost his wife should have reacted. >> reporter: so the detective moved 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 wasnt wine and roses on those cliffs. it was divorce. >> she was going to go through...