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>> do you remember what's going through your mind? >> how badly she hurt. why isn't she coming back to me? >> that's when an officer walked in the room and broke the news to steven. jody was gone. >> i don't remember who came in and told me. >> that was your reaction? >> denial. how could this happen? >> that question would haunt him and many others and it would take years for the answers to finally come. >> coming up -- >> he was rubbing his eyes to make it look like he was crying. >> you thought he was faking tears? >> absolutely. >> curious behavior puts a husband under the microscope. when...

Were. i was stunned. >> what did you do? >> i got down on my stomach. i stuck my head over and just yelled, jody, jody, talk to me. i just yelled down there. >> but no response. he grabbed a flashlight and flagged down a motorist who came here to the palisades interstate parkway police station. lieutenant walter seer i was on duty. >> until he came through that door, it was a quiet night. then all hell broke loose. >> a frantic man was telling him, a woman had fallen from the lookout above and that her husband was waiting for help. the police called in an experienced climber. >> i was there as...

Critical way, though. she determined that jody had been drunk the night she fell off the cliff. she had a blood alcohol level of .12. that was over the legal limit. 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 forensic pathologist dr. cyril wex. he had a resume of star studded investigations too, as high-profile as the prosecution's doctor. only he had a totally different take on how jody scharf died. >> i would call this an accidenta...

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 base. >> dr. maryan clay was the bergen county medical examiner who first ruled the circumstances could not be determined. now on second look, she says, the victim's wounds or lack of them, told her something different. something vital. if jody...

But women called the house. sometimes they called and hung up on her. >> she had served her husband divorce papers on september 8, 1992. less than two weeks later, she was dead at the base of the palisades. the timing made him more eager to talk to the wid other scharf. >> he's consented to talk, right? >> yes. >> two days after his wife's death, steven scharf was freely answering detectives questions. yes, he and his wife were talking divorce, as they had sometimes done during their tempest euhus marriage. it was true, there were other women. >> he told us they had an open marriage, they were...