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Welcome back to "dateline extra." years after jody fell to her death, a new prosecutor reopened the case and brought in a famous forensic pathologist to re-examine the evidence. what would he uncover? >> what stuck in his mind -- >> reporter: in every murder trial, time is an invisible but crucial player. >> 16 years. >> 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. accused of killing his wife nearly two decades ago. >> there is no statute of limitations on murder. >>...

Welcome back to "dateline extra." we continue now with over the edge. >> steven is not guilty! >> reporter: 18 years after the death of his first wife, more than a decade after the investigation first stalled, steven was being called a killer. but his defense attorney argued there was no new evidence in this case, no new eyewitnesses. only new opinions. >> i'm talking about the same old facts and circumstances. >> reporter: he said the state was hoping to win a murder conviction by painting his client as a terrible husband. that it couldn't prove he was a killer in 1992, and it couldn't prove ...

Find your awesome with xfinity xfi and change the way you wifi. welcome back to "dateline extra." it started out as a romantic date. it ended in tragedy. jody and steve hiked to a favorite spot along the cliffs to take in the view. a short while later, jody fell over the edge and questions about what really happened that night began to mount. >> reporter: it was the worst night of his life. now steven, in the early morning hours of september 21, 1992, had to tell his 10-year-old son jonathan his mother was dead. >> i said, come on, jonathan, we need to take a walk. i told him. he immediately...

Welcome back to "dateline extra" returning to our story, here again is keith morrison. >> it was a lover's lane. a quiet dusty, dead-end road miles from main street moundville. a spot so uncommonly traversed, a car with engine running, taillights blazing could go unnoticed. it was here they found teresa mayfield's truck, body inside, gunshot wound to the head. teresa's younger sister broke the terrible news to their mother. >> when i went to the house, mama was sitting in the recliner. i knelt down on my knees and i grabbed her and i said, mama, she's gone. she's gone. do you have any idea how...

Sloan says coniers vergely abused her in the '90s. joe barten says he won't talk about a nude photo released online because police are investigating. authorities have not confirmed. america's top commander in afghanistan says the war is at a stalemate but the president's strategy set all the conditions to win. back to "dateline extra". welcome back to "dateline extra." i'm craig melvin. after the jury delivered a guilty verdict, tom faced life behind bars and in a stunning development 24 hours later, a witness emerged to possibly set him free. the husband some shunned as a murderer might...