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It back in the garage. he put in the bag with the picnic items. it was just convenient. a convenient excuse for having that hammer. >> detectives asked if they could check out the drawer and the rest of stephen's house that night. he agreed. but as it turned out, something potentially far more telling was happening away from the action. >> and i said, look, mr. scharf, i'm your local police department. >> ted ehrenberg was a local officer 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...

>> yes, they were you know, we were inu love. it was aesthetic. >>ing from there, marriage, a house. a sun jonathaning in 1983. and lould you describe jodie as a momle? >> she was really devoted. >> life was good and even as the years went by, even with the demands of work and family, steven says he and jodie still made time for each other. like that can last summer sunday in september of 1992. steven says it was supposed to be a date night. >> it will wasn't -- day in our life, our marriage. >> it was a day like any other day? >> yes. >> here was the plan. husband and wife would drive into ma...

>> reporter: he and another rescuer began to walk along the base, pointing their flashlights north. finally, about 30 feet away, the beams landed on something white. it was jody, lying motionless next to a tree. >> there was a lot of blood on that tree. and the blood was actually draining down the tree. that's where the severe impact took. that's where she really -- >> jody sharp had not survived the fall. to chiofi it was clear.fa she had slammed into that tree. as they began to move the body he noticed something else.th >> she had an odor of an alcoholic beverage. that emanated from her body...

Circumstances. everything -- every little thing was clicking in my mind, i'm saying to myself, this isn't right. something's 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 jody scharf's death could not be determined. an accident was as likely as anything else...

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. >> oh 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, terry scofield, she recounted stephen's mysterious statement just before jody's death. >> just give me to the end of september and everything will be okay. the str...