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>> i did not. i did not. i didn't hurt jody. i didn't push her. i didn't cause her to get hurt. i didn't kill my wife. >> we talked to stephen scharf at the bergen county jail where he's been held ever since his arrest in 2008. he and his wife tina say they've paid a high price for something he didn't do. >> we visited through a plate glass. our daughter is 2 1/2 and has still never been held by her father because we don't have contact visits. >> it's not just a tragedy for jody, it's a tragedy for john. it's a tragedy for my wife, it's a tragedy for my daughter. and for myself. >> still, he d...

Anywhere on the rocks. the location of jody's body seemed off to him. way off. >> she was like 30 to 40 feet away to the north. a person falls aught of the cliff, usually they go south. should have been off where i got off the ropes. >> someone else was scratching his head about that night for different reasons. it had to do with steven's behavior while the search was under way. the officer was surprised steven was willing to leave the lookout as rescuers were still looking for her. >> did he give any indication, i don't want to leave, my wife could still be alive down there? >> no, not at all...

Is? >> guilty. >> guilty. 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 stephen's life who also swayed the jury. terri schofield recounting what stephen said to her weeks before jody's death, that his stress would soon be over. >> once i heard that, that was something that pushed me towards what decided in the end, was that statement. >> to them, it wasn't jody who slipped but her husband with that m...

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. there was no one thing. i 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 was drinking, would you bring her there? >> the jurors deliberated three days before deciding whether steven s...

Of.12. that was over the >> a drunken slip and fall argued the defense. to back that up, the lawyer had his own. as high profile as the prosecution's. only he had a totally different take on how shoedy sharp died. >> i would call this an accidental death. in weks version which he demonstrated with of all things, a teddy bear, jody fell off a cliff and onto jagged rocks below causing her mortal wounds. her body then catapulted. >> and out goes the body and into the air.