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Mother. >> did you see that abuse? >> i did. >> reporter: jonathan said he realized his father had likely killed his mother only after that arrest in 2008. this videotaped interview shows hum recalling the dark past for the first time to police. >> she got coffee thrown at her. >> reporter: now in court, he had even more to tell about his childhood. like the afternoon he sat cowering in the back seat of a car watching his mother suffer. >> my mom was driving. my dad just hitting her with the bottom of his fist. i was begging him to stop. >> reporter: he remembered the last day of his mother's ...

Face. >> reporter: the medical examiner first ruled the circumstances of the 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, she would have had broken bones everywhere. she did not. >> there were no visible injuries on the back of her body. >> reporter: why would steven had killed his wife? the biggest reason the prosec e prosecutor argued was that steven did not want to divorce. he didn't want a custody fight. and he didn't want to split assets with jody. and ther...

>> reporter: a death scene where the pieces didn't connect. a husband who appeared nonchalant. from a cop's point of view, things were adding up and not in steven's favor. >> not just one thing. it was the totality of the circumstances. everything -- every little thing was clicking in my mind. i'm saying to myself, you know, this isn't right. something is wrong here. >> reporter: 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 steven was too jaundiced. there really was nothing t...

>> in terms of hard evidence, it had nothing new. >> reporter: the prosecutor did have someone new. a famous name to join the investigation into jody's death. dr. michael bodden, a world renounced forensic pathologist who investigated the death of john f. kennedy and testified at the trial of o.j. simpson. he was about to turn up the heat on a very cold case. >> the doctor has reviewed the evidence and has determined that this could not have been an accidental fall. >> reporter: in december of 2008, detectives paid one more visit to steven. >> they wouldn't tell me what it was for. i had no id...

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