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Thinking of her, too, after all these years. bergen county had a new prosecutor and he was eager to visit old case files, among them an unexplained death here on the cliffs of the palisades so many years ago, death of jody sharp. >> there was a renewed push since 2002 to look into the cold cases. >> on one hand he says, it didn't seem the prosecutor had any reason to pursue the cold case. >> in terms of hard evidence, it had absolutely nothing new. >> but the prosecutor did have someone new. a famous name to join the investigation into jody sharp's death. dr. michael boden, a world renowned fo...

Maybe this is a hoax, maybe she never really went off the cliff. >> he and another rescuer began to walk along the base pointing their flashlights north. finally about 30 feet away, they landed on something white. it was jovi lying motionless next to a tree. >> there was a lot of blood on that tree. it was draining down the tree. that's where the severe impact took. >> jody sharp had not survived the fall. it was clear she had slammed into that tree. as they began to move the body, he he noticed something else. >> an alcoholic beverage that emmated from her body. >> so did you think mbe she ha...

Wecht. but wecht had a totally different take on how skroedy sharp died. >> i would call this an accidental death. >> in wecht's version, which he demonstrated with of all things a teddy bear, jody fell off the cliff and on to jagged rocks just below causing her mortal wounds. her body then catapulted. >> out goes the body and it hurls into the air. >> into the tree canopy which then carried her through the abyss and into that distant tree. >> this is what i think happened to explain those injuries of the chest and head. >> but there was another bubble to burst in the prosecution's case. the m...

Pressed the medical examiner on her flip-flop, undetermined manner of death in '93, and now it was a homicide? really? >> are you trying to say that you're learning from your m mistakes on this case? >> you may call them mistakes, sir. i did the best i could in 1992 documenting what i had observed with mrs. sharp. >> the medical examiner was helpful to the defense in one critical way though. she determined that jody had been drunk the night she fell off the cliffs. jody had a blood alcohol level of 0.12. that was over the legal limit. >> would be equivalent to approximately four average size d...

There was no blood or hair anywhere on the rocks. and the location of jody's body on seemed off. >> she was like 30 to on 40 feet away from us to the north. a person falls off the cliff, usually they will go south or right down. should have been right down where i got off the reasons. >> someone else was scratching his head about that night for different reasons. it had to do with steven's behavior while the search was under way. officer walter serig was surprised steven was willing to leave the lookout as rescuers were still looking for jody. >> did he givefully indication i don't want to lea...