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The top of the cliff and 30 feet to the north. >> she had to have been propelled from that point. >> jody had to have been thrown or pushed to her death he said and likely from another spot entirely on those cliffs. he wasn't the only expert who saw it that way. >> the head and chest injuries are not consistent with someone that tumbles down the cliff face. >> dr. maryann clayton was the bergen county medical examiner who first ruleds circumstances of jody's death could not be determined. now on second look she said the victim's wounds or lack of them told her something different, something vi...

>> but had the jury gotten that same message? when they walked in to 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 ghiuilt. >> it was several things. it was no one thing had made up my mind. >> but 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 knowing that your wife was drin...

>> the doctor has reviewed the evidence and determined that 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. 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, you thought it was done. >> >> not until they reached behind and hand me this thing, this arrest warrant. coming up -- the case heads into court with a surprise from the stand. >> i'm hear for...

Turned over to the state years later he said that steven sharp even bothered to collect. >> would it throw fuel on the fire not do it? wow, i know i look guilty because i am guilty, i better not make this claim. >> you're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't. >> the other alleged motive, divorce, was flimsy as well he said. jody and steven had been talking breakup for years. those divorce papers just the latest in an ongoing marital spat. >> the prosecutor paints a picture of someone who, frankly, is furious about this divorce. >> no one person ever indicated that my client was furious...

Later, jurors said what united them was the testimony of jody's friend, telling them that jody was terrified of her husband. >> that possibly she was telling everyone if something happens to me, it's my husband. >> and it was another woman in steven's life who also swayed the jury. terry schofield recounting what steep said to her week befos be jody's death, that her stress would soon be over. >> that was something that pushed me towards what we decided in the end. >> it was the light bulb. >> to them, it wasn't jody who slipped, but her husband with that menacing statement. they believed it w...