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>> do you remember what is going through your mind at that point? >> how badly is she hurt, where is she, why isn't she calling back to me. >> and that's when an officer broke the news, jody was gone about that. >> i don't even remember who told me. >> what was your reaction? >> denial. how could this happen. >> that question would haunt him and many others. and it would take years for the answers to finally come. coming up -- >> he was rubbing his eyes to make it looks like he was crying. >> you thought he was faking tears? >> absolutely. >> curious behavior puts a husband under the microsc...

>> you were drinking. >> i lost my wife. my son lost his mom. >> there was plenty of sympathy among family and friends to be sure. for the man newly widowed, with a small child to raise on his own. his wife had died in a freak accident off a cliff of all places. how could that happen. and that is exactly what police who were there the nice of jody's dead wanted to know, too. >> right away i got a feeling that it was something definitely wrong. >> it nagged at rescuer michael. why jody's purse on a ledge just feet plea where her husband said she had fallen. >> where is she, she should be here. ...

Stunning confession. he ran to tell the other detectives, but they had just spent hours grilling the man. >> we weren't getting that feeling that a re-interview at that point would have done gh . anything. >> but they still believed they could find solid evidence to implicate steven sharp, but they didn't. >> the cause of death at that time was listed as undetermined, so officially it wasn't a homicide. >> in time, the detectives moved on to other cases. steven sharp moved on too. 14 years after his wife's death, remarried. tina sharp says he's been a loving ideal husband. >> it was like we we...

>> not just one thing, it was like the totality of the circumstances. everything -- every little thing was clicking in my mind and saying to myself, you know, this sb isn't right. >> 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 really was nothing to indicate that jody's fall was anything but an accident. a few months later, the ruling was in. the bergen county medical examiner concluded the manner of jody sharp's death could not be determined. ...

And sometimes they would call and hang up on her. >> in fact he learned gentlemengentlemejody had served her husband divorce papers and less than two weeks later she was dead. the timing made him even more eager to talk to the widower sharp. >> there was a hit-down with mr. sharp. >> yes. >> two days after his wife's death, steven sharp was freely answering detective's questions. yes, he told them, he and his wife were talking divorce as they had sometimes done during their tell pet chew us marriage. and it was true, there were other women. >> he told us they had an open marriage. he said he h...