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The palisades, to their spot. steven remembers pulling up to the scenic lookout, sitting in the car with jodi, sharing a wine cooler. >> there were other people sitting in the spot, the spot where the binoculars and walked up into the this sort of open view. >> he says they then turned and took a well-worn path into the those rocks. they sat there he with the rock against her back holding her. at some point something goes terribly wrong. >> yes. >> he says he stood up to go back to the car to get wine and blanket. for whatever reason, jodi stood up, too, the edge of the rock was at her feet. w...

Them that she was terrified of her husband. >> possibly she was telling everyone if something happened to me it's my husband. >> it was another woman in steven's leif that swayed the jury. >> that was something that pushed me towards what we decided in the end. >> it was the light bulb. >> to them, it wasn't jodey who slipped, but her husband. they believe it wasn't just a fall from the cliffs, it was a cold-blooded execution. steven sharp was sentenced to life in prison. he says the jurors condemned him not on the facts, but for his and jodey's tumultuous open marriage. >> so, you think this ...

Interviewed jonathan back in 2008, the young man described his dad as a good guy. >> i think he was a, you know, fairly decent, you know, fairly decent guy. >> it was only after detectives told him his dad had just been arrested that >> she got -- >> before you found out that your dad was arrested, did you lie? >> yes. >> and did you lie more than once? >> yes. >> why would jonathan turn on his father and lie snd.the defense lawyer said it was jonathan, not his dad, who was motivated by greed. if steven sharp was convicted, his son would get all that insurance money. >> who does that money go ...

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...

Hello and welcome to "dateline" extra. when police got word that someone had fallen off a cliff, they weren't surprised. the place was known to be dangerous but even they couldn't guess that it would take almost 20 years to find out what really happened to a woman out on an evening hike with her husband. here's chris jansing. >> every couple has it, a shared song, a favorite movie or maybe a special place. steven sharp says for him and his wife jody, this was it. two rocks forming a lover's chair on the edge of a cliff. >> that was our spot. we would bring a hibachi, a couple of lawn chair, a ...