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There was no blood or hair anywhere on the rocks. and the location of jody's body seemed off to chofi. way off. >> she was like 30 to 40 feet away from us to the north. a person falls off the cliff, usually they're going to go south or they're going to go right down. they should have been right down where i got off the ropes. that's where she should have been. >> someone else was scratching his head about that night for different reasons. it had to do with stephen's behavior while the search was under way. officer walter serie was surprised stephen was willing to leave the lookout as rescuers ...

Stephen's favor. >> not just one thing. it was like the totality of the circumstances. everything -- every little thing was clicking in my mind. i am saying to myself, you know, this isn't right. something is wrong here. >> gut instinct is one thing, but evidence is quite another. people handle terrible events in different ways. the police are paid to be suspicious. maybe their view of stephen was too jaundiced. there really was nothing to indicate that jody's fall was anything but an accident. a few months later the ruling was in. the bergen county medical examiner concluded the manner of jod...

Suffer. >> my mom was driving, and my dad was hitting her with the bottom of his fist. and i was just like begging him to stop doing it. >> he also remembered the last day of his mother's life. he was 10. and said his mother told his father that she didn't want to go out with him alone. >> she said, if i wanted to go out with you, i wouldn't be divorcing you. >> but where was the proof that stephen had planned to kill jody that night? well, there was the hammer in the picnic bag. but there was also testimony from this woman. one of stephen's old girlfriends. >> i even mentioned to my girlfrien...

In his kitchen with the hammer and he just forgot to put it back in the garage. he put it in the bag with the picnic items. it was a convenient excuse for having the hammer. >> detectives asked to check out the drawer and the rest of the how is that night. he agreed. as it turned out something more telling was happening away from the action. >> i said look, mr. scharf, i am your local police department. >> ed, a local police officer, was told to keep an eye on stephen scharf that night as detectives combed through his house. the officer says he began talking to stephen about what had happened ...

Divorce, was flimsy as well, he said. jody and stephen had been talking breakup for years. those divorce papers, just the latest legal salvo in an ongoing marital spat. >> the prosecutor paints a picture of someone who, frankly, is furious about this divorce. >> no one person ever indicated that my client was furious over this divorce. they had talked about divorce for years. maybe she was, you know, saying one thing and not following through. >> though it is true stephen scharf did not want a divorce. he says he wanted to give the marriage another chance. and as for that former girlfriend, te...