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Of the cliffs. >> he willingly got into your patrol car. >> when the officer heard stephen describe how his wife had fallen he made a mental note. >> there was no emotion in it at all. like he was reading a script. >> did it occur that maybe he was in shock? >> no. i have seen people who have lost loved ones and i have never seen anyone react that way. >> it was a particular moment later, inside the station house, that really caught the officers attention. >> he asked if he could get a drink fro...

It was telling james lynam something sinister had just happened. so you didnt think this was a horrible accident? >> no. >> there wasnt any smoking gun really. just something dark lynam 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 frie...

>> 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 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. >...

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 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...

It was telling james linem something sinter had just happened. so you didnt think was a horrible accident? >> no. >> there wasnt any smoke and gun really, just something dark he thought he could read between the lines in his 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...

He wasnt in custody. i dont know. >> the defense attorney also argued the defense attorney msad in his home. >> my client never said it was an accident. >> and as for that hammer. >> the hammer was examined by 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 youre learning from your mistakes on this case? >> crow may ...

>> no, not at all. >> if it was my wife or girlfriend or whoever they are, they would have to pry me from the top of those cliffs. >> but he willingly got into your patrol car? >> without a word. >> when the officer heard steven describe how his wife had fallen, he made a mental note. >> there was no emotion in it at all. like he was reading a script. >> did it occur to you, maybe hes in shock? >> no, ive seen people who have lost loved ones, ive never seen anybody act that way. >> but it was pa...

>> i was there at a rescue mission. i shot she was alive. >> he began to lower himself off the side of the cliff where the womans husband says she had fallen. about ten feet down he caught sight of a ledge. >> the minute i got to that ledge there was a purse, i think two credit cards. >> on a ledge ten feet down? >> right. >> but it was what he didnt see that confused him. there was no sign that the womans body had also hit that ledge or any part of the cliffs. >> nothing. no blood, no hair, no ...

Husband. >> that possibly she was telling everyone if something happens to me it was my husband. >> and it was another woman in stephens life who also swayed the jury. terry scofield recounting what stephen said to her weeks before jodys death, 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 fr...

Motive, the perfect setting, the violent intent to kill his wife. or was there another way of looking 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 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 questi...