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She determined that jody had been drunk the night she fell off the cliffs. jody had a blood alcohol level of .12. that was over the limit. >> it would be equivalent to approximately four average sized drinks, wine or beer, something like that. >> a drunken slip and fall, argued the defense. to back that up, the lawyer had his own heavy hitter. famed pathologist dr. cyril wekt. wekt posted a résume of star-studded profiles, too. as high profile as the prosecution's dr. baden. only wekt had a totally different take on how jody scharf died. >> i would call this an accidental death. >> in wekt's ...

Son's reaction but little else from those dark hours. were you sleeping? were you eating? >> drinking. i lost my wife and my s-- >> his wife had died in a freak accident, off a cliff in all places. how could that happen? and that's exactly what police who were there the night of jody's death wanted to know, too. >> right away i got a feeling there was something definitely wrong. >> it nagged at rescuer michael chioffi. why was jody's purse on a ledge just below where her purse had fallen? >> either she had be here or her pocket should be with her. >> another thought dawned on

Said. jody and stephen had been talking break up for years. those divorce papers just the latest legal salvo in an ongoing marital spat. >> the prosecutor paints a picture of someone, who frankly is fureia is furious about this divorce. >> no one person ever indicated that my client was furious over this divorce. they had talked about divorce for years. maybe she was, you know, saying one thing and not following through. >> though it is true stephen scharf did not want a divorce, he says he wanted to give the marriage another chance. and as for that former girlfriend, terry scofield, she recou...

Case of jody scharf. her body landed 50 feet out from the top of a 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. marryanne clayton was the burgen county medical examiner who first ruled the circumstances of jody's death could not be determined. now on second look, she says, the victims woun...

It was telling james something sinter had just happened. so you didn't think was a horrible accident? >> no. >> there wasn't any smoking gun, really. just something dark he thought he could read between the lines notice police notes he reviewed the day after jody's degtd. >> he did not react to somebody that just lost his wife should have reacted. >> and so the detective moved his investigation from the physical evidence to the less tangible clues. he quickly learned from the friends this was a couple not in love but in crisis. the subject wasn't wine and roses on those cliffs. it was divorce....