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Hours. were you sleeping? were you eating? >> drinking. >> you were drinking? >> i lost my wife, my son lost hi mom. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: it nagged at rescuer michael cioffi. why was her purse on a ledge? just ...

Palisades cliff to take in the view. but a short while later, jody fell over the edge and questions about what really happened that night began to mount. here's chris jansing. >> reporter: it was the worst night of his life and now steven sharp in the early morning hours of september 21st, 1992, had to tell his 10-year-old son jonathan his mother was dead. >> i said, come on, jonathan. we need to take a walk and i told him and he immediately burst into tears and i cried. i cried like a baby and i wasn't ashamed. >> reporter: he remembers his distraught son's reaction but little else from those...