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Stuck my head over, and i just yelled. jodi. jodi, talk to me. i just yelled down there. >> but no response. he grabbed a flashlight and flagged down a motorist, who came here to the palisades interstate parkway p police station. lieutenant walter seary was on duty. >> this will he came to that doorwi it was a very quiet nigh. and all hell broke loose. >> the frantic man was telling them a woman had fallen from the lookout above and that her husband was waiting for help. police called in michael chiofi, an experienced climber. >> i was there as a rescue mission. i thought she was alive. >> he ...

>> we talked to stephen scharf at the bergen county jail, where he was held for more than two years after his arrest in 2008. he and his wife, tina, say they've paid a high price for something he didn't do. >> our daughter's 2 1/2 and has still never been held by her father. because we don't have contact visits. >> it's not just a tragedy for jody. it's a tragedy for jon. it's a tragedy for my wife. it's a tragedy for my daughter. and for myself. >> still, he decided not to take the stand in his own defense but told "dateline" that what he first said years ago about his wife's death was the tr...

The jury's about to decide the fate of stephen scharf. here's chris jansing with the conclusion of our story. >> 18 years after a night that ended in his wife's death off a cliff stephen scharf stood accused of murder by the state of new jersey. and through it all one thing he wants you to know is this. he would never have laid a hand on his beloved jody. never. >> stephen, did you kill your wife, jody? >> i did not hurt jody. i did not. >> did you throw her off the palisades? >> no, i did not. i did not. i didn't hurt jody. i didn't push her. i didn't cause her to get hurt. i didn't kill my w...

Where the binoculars are, and then walked up, you know, to this sort of open view. >> he says they then turned and took ahe narrow well-worn path those rocks. they sat there as the night fell around them. heou with his back against the rock, holding her as she sat directly in front of him. >> at some point something goes terribly wrong. >> yes. >> he says he stood up intending to go back to the car to get wine and the blanket. for whatever reason jodi stood up too. the edge of the rock was at her feet. >> what was your last glimpse of your wife? >> just standing up and, you know, and stumbling...

At that couple perched high on those cliffs on a summer night? stephen's 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 his dad? >> who does the money go to? >> it goes to me. >> when "over the edge" continues. continues...