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Something's wrong here. >> gut instinct is one thing, but evidence is quite another. people handle terrible events in different ways. the police are paid to be suspicious. maybe their view of steven was too jaundiced, there was nothing to indicate that jodi's fall was anything but an accident. a few months later, the ruling was in. the burgen county medical examiner concluded the manner of jodi's death could not be determined. an accident was as likely as anything else. case closed. or was it. coming up -- >> you didn't think this was a horrible accident? >> no. >> the suspicions grow. was t...

>> not an interrogation, he wasn't in custody, i don't know. >> the defense attorney argued the police misinterpreted what his client said in his home just hours later. >> my client never said this wasn't an accident. >> 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 you're learning from your mistakes on this case? >> you may cal...

On a very cold case. >> he's reviewed the evidence and determined this could not have been an accidental fall. >> in december of 2008, detectives paid one more visit to steven sharp. >> they wouldn't tell me what it was for. i had no idea what this was about much it didn't make sense. >> 16 years after that fatal night on the cliff. police were back. and steven sharp was in for a shock. >> after all these years, he thought it was done? >> not until they reached behind and handed me this thing. this arrest warrant. >> coming up, the case heads into court with a surprise from the stand. >> i'm h...

Everywhere, she did not. >> there were no visible injuries on the back of her body. >> why would steven have killed his wife. the biggest reason was that steven did not want a divorce. he didn't want a custody fight. and he didn't want to split assets with jodi. there was yet another motive for steven, so the prosecutor. a potential payout. >> usaa life insurance policy. >> a $500,000 policy taken out months before her death. payable to a primary beneficiary. >> can you tell us the policy owner? >> stephen f.scharf. >> jodi was worth more dead than alive. her friend testified that jodi feared ...

What happened on the cliff's edge. hello, and welcome to "dateline" extra. when police got word that someone had fallen off a cliff. they weren't surprised. the place was known to be dangerous, even they couldn't guess it would take almost 20 years what happened to a woman out on an evening hike without her husband. here's chris jansen. >> every couple has it, a shared song, a favorite movie, or maybe a special place. for him and his wife jodi, this was it. two rocks forming a lover's chair on the edge of a cliff. >> that was our spot. we would bring a hibachi, a couple lawn chairs, a cooler, ...