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He ran to tell the other detectives including lynam but they had just spent hours grilling the man. >> we weren't getting that feeling that a reinterview at that point would have done anything. >> reporter: the detectives still believed they could find solid evidence to implicate steven scharf but they didn't. >> we took it as far as we could do. the cause of death was listed as undetermined. so officially it wasn't a homicide. >> reporter: in time, the detectives moved on to other cases, steven scharf moved on too. 14 years after his wife's death he remarried. tina scharf says he's been a lov...

>> but had the jury gotten that same message? when they walked into 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 guilty. >> it was several things. it was no one thing that had made up my mind. >> the 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 wa...

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

>> drinking. >> 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's exactly what police who were there the night of jody's death wanted to know too. >> right away, i got a feeling that there was something definitely wrong. >> it nagged at the rescuer. why was she perched on a ledge feet bee lore where her husband said she had fallen. >> where is she? she shou...

Killed his wife? the biggest reason, the prosecutor argued, was that steven did not 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 steven, said the prosecutor. a potential payout. >> usa 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 policy owner? >> steven f. scharf. >> jody scharf was simply worth more dead than alive. her friend, marian feared that he might ...