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Life, he says, he's never forgot about jody. but he might have been surprised to learn someone else was thinking of her too after all these years. burgen county had a new prosecutor and he was eager to revisit old case files. among them the one here at the cliff of the palisades so many years ago, the death of jody sharp. >> it was this renewed push since 2002 to look into the cold cases. >> he covered the trial for the newspaper in new jersey. 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....

And john bu loogsy and testified at the trial of o. j. simpson. he was about to turn up the heat on a very cold case. >> he's reviewed the evidence and has 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 buwas about. it didn't make sense. >> 15 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 me and handed me this arrest warr...

And two-hour appointment windows. click, call or visit a store today. jody's death on these cliffs had been a horrible accident. her husband said so. and the medical examiner wasn't arguing with him. but detectives have a kind of sixth sense about cases.

She did not. >> there were no visible injuries on the back of her body. >> but why would stephen kill his wife. the biggest reason the prosecutor argued is he didn't want a divorce, he didn't want a custody fight, and he didn't want to split assets with jody. and there was yet another motive for stephen said the prosecutor, a potential pay out. >> ussa life insurance company. >> an insurance representative testified about a $500,000 policy taken out against jody scharf months before her death, payable to a primary beneficiary. >> can you tell us the policyowner? >> stephen f. scharf. >> jody s...

Those other women did not bother jody at all. she was seeing other people herself. >> the person on the bottom half in both of those is who? >> jody scharf. >> the record keeper of a dating service testified that jody's name was on an application. she even checked off the interests she'd like to share with a mate. the attorney offered that as proof of stephen and jody's open marriage. but what really wrinkled the defense, what had torn at the heart of stephen scharf was the testimony of his son, jonathan. >> i remember her showing me her bruises. >> he had painted his father as a brute and pos...