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Club, but i'm innocent. >> but had the jury gotten the same message? when they walked into that deliberating room for the first time, some jurors, in fact, planned to vote not guilty. >> there wasn't enough evidence for me. that's what it was. >> others were thinking guilty. >> it was several things. it was no one thing that had made up my mind. >> the jurors went back and forth over the evidence. and here's what they came to believe. that jody was likely drunk and that her husband knew it. and if that was the case, why would he let her get so close to the edge of a cliff? >> as the husband, k...

Everywhere. she did not. >> there were no visible injuries on the back of mrs. scharf's body. >> but why would stephen have killed his wife? the biggest reason the prosecutor argued was that stephen did not want a divorce. he didn't want a custody fight and he didn't want to split assets with jody. and there was yet another motive for stephen, said the prosecutor. a potential payout. >> usaa life insurance company. >> an insurance representative testified about a $500,000 policy taken out against jody scharf months before her death. payable to a primary beneficially. >> can you tell us the pol...

Been cheating on her. >> she couldn't prove anything but women called the house and sometimes they'd call and hang up on her. >> in fact, lynam learned jody had served her husband divorce papers on september 8th, 1992. less than two weeks later, she was dead at the base of the palisades. the timing made them even more eager to talk to the widower scharf. >> there was a sit-down with mr. scharf. he's consented to talk. right? >> yes. >> two days after his wife's death stephen scharf was freely answering detective's question, yes, he told them he and his wife were talking divorce as they had som...

Childhood. like the afternoon he sat cowering in the backseat of a car watching his mother suffer. >> my mom was driving and my dad just hitting her with the bottom of his fists and i was like begging him to stop doing it. >> he also remembered the last day of his mother's life. he was 10 and said his mother told his father that she didn't want to go out with him alone. >> she said, if i wanted to go out with you i wouldn't be divorcing you. >> but where was the proof that stephen had planned to kill jody that night? well, there was the hammer in the picnic bag. but there was also testimony fr...

Push or throw jody off that cliff so detectives asked stephen scharf the obvious, what was a hammer doing in that picnic bag? >> well, he told us he fixed a drawer in his kitchen with the hammer and he just forgot to put it back in the garage. he put it in the bag with the picnic items. it was just convenient. it was a convenient excuse for having that hammer. >>: detectives asked if they could check out the drawer and the rest of steven's house that night. he agreed. but as it turned out, something potentially far more telling was happening away from the action. >> and i said, look, mr. schar...