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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 splashing water into his eyes to look it lik...

Away from her husband. >> 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...

The perfect setting, 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 prosecutor -- >> 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? >...

To the north. >> she had to have been prop propelled from that point. >> reporter: 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. >> of the head and chest injuries are not consistent with someone that tumbles down the cliff face. >> reporter: dr. marian clayton was the bergen county medical examiner who first ruled the circumstances of jody's death could not be determined. now on second look, she said, the victim's wounds or lack of them told her something different, something vi...

Horrible accident. >> no. >> reporter: there wasn't any smoking gun really. just something dark lynam thought he could read between the lines in the police notes he reviewed the day after jody's death. >> he did not react like somebody who just lost his wife should have reacted. >> reporter: and so the detective moved his investigation from the physical evidence to the less tangible clues. he quickly learned from jody's friends that this was a couple not in love but in crisis. the subject wasn't wine and roses on those cliffs, it was divorce. >> she was going to go through wit, yes, absolutely...