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Summer night? stephen's new wife says the prosecution has it all wrong. >> my husband is not capable. that is not the man he is. my husband is sweet, kind, loving, considerate. >> the prosecutor -- >> the defense was ready to show how stephen scharf, far from flynn was the real victim in this story. >> coming up. >> they destroyed the crime scene area. >> new questions about the evidence and was there another reason why is sun might implicate his dad? >> who does the money go to? >> it goes to me. >> when dateline continues. uff going on inside. it's true, with diabetic retinopathy, excess sug...

An invisible but crucial player for both sides. >> 16 years. >> sometimes it hurts a case. memories fade, evidence is lost, witnesses die. but time can also put evidence in a new light. such was the case in the trial of stephen scharf, accused of killing his wife nearly two decades ago. >> there is no statute of limitations on murder. >> the prosecutor promised the evidence would tell a story as simple as it was brutal. a husband determined to avoid a costly divorce lured his wife to the edge of a cliff and forced her off it. >> if he has lied, he is guilty. >> the state martialed some familia...

Feet. >> i said was it an accident, and he put his head down and he said no. >> he believed that was a stunning confession. he ran to tell other detectives including linum, but they'd just spent hours grilling the man. the detectives still believed they could find solid evidence to implicate steven sharp, but they didn't. >> we took it as far as the cause of death at that time was listed as undetermined, so officially it wasn't a homicide. >> in time detectives moved onto other cases. steven sharp moved on, too. 14 years after his wife's degtd he remarried. tina sharp says he's been a loving, ...

>> she was going to have divorce papers served on stephen, and she was very afraid of him. >> yet was stephen violent enough to kill his wife? an unlikely but powerful witness was about to testify against stephen scharf. >> i hear from my mother. >> his own son took the stand against him. now a businessman, jonathan scharf painted his father as an angry violent man who terrorized his mother. >> did you see that abuse? >> i did. >> jonathan scharf said he realized his father had likely killed his mother only after that arrest in 2008. this videotaped interview shows him recalling the dark past ...

>> but he willingly got into a patrol car? >> without a word. >> stranger still was how calm steven seem. when the officer heard him describe how his wife had fallen, he made a mental note. >> there was no emotion at all. >> did it occur to you maybe he was in shock. >> no, i've seen people who lost loved ones and i've never seen them act that way. >> but it was a particular moment later that caught his attention. >> he asked if he could get a drink from the water fountain, he was looking over and splashing water on his face and rubbing his eyes to make it look like he was crying. >> you thoug...