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>> there wasn't any smoking gun really. just something dark lineham 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. >> 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 with it. yes. absolutely. >> jody's long-time friend marianne hi...

When the officer heard stephen describe how his wife had fallen, he made a mental note. >> there was no emotion in it. no emotion at all. like he was reading a script. >> did it occur to you, well, maybe he's in shock? >> no. i've seen people who have lost loved ones, and i've never seen anybody act that way. >> but 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 like over his shoulder at me and splashing water up into his face and then like rubbing his eyes to make...

Each other, stephen said. to kiss and make up. >> the spot where they went is not a spot you would go to reconcile with anybody. >> detectives weren't buying the story for another reason. they had found something suspicious inside scharf's car. a bag filled with items you'd expect for a romantic picnic and one you would not. a hammer. >> you have your wine, cheese, crackers, opener, claw hammer. i mean, red flags are going up. they reached the top of the pole at that point. >> did you think that might be a murder weapon? >> yeah, i thought that might have been plan a. and he didn't you'd it. s...

Determined that this could not have been an accidental fall. >> in december of 2008 detectives paid one more visit to stephen scharf. >> they wouldn't tell me what it was for. i had no idea what this was about. i mean, it didn't make sense. >> 16 years after that fatal night on the cliff police were back and stephen scharf was in for a shock. >> after all these years you thought it was done. >> not until they reached behind and hand me this thing, this arrest warrant. >> coming up -- the case heads into court with a surprise from the stand. >> i'm here for my mother. >> stephen and jody scharf...

Propelled from that point. >> 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. >> the head and chest injuries are not consistent with someone that tumbles down the cliff face. >> reporter: dr. marianne 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 vital. if jody had tumbled innocently down the palisade...