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Happened to his wife. >> do you remember what's going through your mind at that point? >> how badly is she hurt. where is she? why isn't she calling back to me. >> that's when an officer walked into the room and broke the news to stephen. jody was gone. >> i don't even remember who came in and told me. >> what was your reaction? >> denial. it was how could this -- 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 faki...

The violent intent to kill his wife. or, was there another way of looking at that couple perched high on those cliffs on a 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 defense was ready to show how stephen scharf, far from villain, 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 a son might implicate his dad? >> who does the money go to? >> it goe...

And he put his head down and he said no. >> he believed that was a stunning confession. he ran to tell the other detectives, including linum. but they had just spent hours grilling the man. >> we weren't getting that feeling, that a re-interview at that point would have done anything. >> the detectives still believed they could find solid evidence to implicate stephen scharf, but they didn't. >> we took it as far as we could go. there hadn't been -- the cause of death at that time was listed as undetermined. so officially it wasn't a homicide. >> in time, detectives moved on to other cases, st...

Of the cliffs. >> he willingly got into your patrol car. >> when the officer heard stephen describe how his wife had fallen he made a mental note. >> there was no emotion in it at all. like he was reading a script. >> did it occur that maybe he was in shock? >> no. i have seen people who have lost loved ones and i have never seen anyone react that way. >> it was a particular moment later, inside the station house, that really caught the officer's attention. >> he asked if he could get a drink from the water fountain. he was looking over his shoulder while he was splashing water up into his eye...

No tissue. >> then, the husband himself. cool and collected in the back of a police car. >> i didn't see any emotion from him at all, sir. >> who later confessed, the prosecutor said, to killing his wife. >> and then i said. it was an accident? and he said, no. >> but those facts were not where the case ended. the prosecutor argued that they simply set the stage for the real case. a story told by the victim's friends, family, and most importantly, by a star witness. >> my opinion is that the manner of death is homicide. >> dr. michael baden, the famous forensic pathologist, told jurors the cri...