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It back in the garage. he put it in the bag with the pickny items. it was just convenient. it was a convenient excuse for having that hammer. >> reporter: detectives ask fundamental they could check out the drawer and the rest of steven'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. >> reporter: ted aronberg was told to keep an eye on steven scharf that night as detectives combed through his house. the officer says he began talking to steven about ...

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 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. >> reporter: 16 years after that fatal night on the cliff, police were back. and steven scharf was in for a shock. after all these years you thought it was done. >> not until they reached behind and handed me this thing, this arrest warrant. >> coming up, the case heads into court with a surprise from the stand. >> hea...

Palisades cliff to take in the view. but a short while later, jody fell over the edge and questions about what really happened that night began to mount. here's chris jansing. >> reporter: it was the worst night of his life and now steven sharp in the early morning hours of september 21st, 1992, had to tell his 10-year-old son jonathan his mother was dead. >> i said, come on, jonathan. we need to take a walk and i told him and he immediately burst into tears and i cried. i cried like a baby and i wasn't ashamed. >> reporter: he remembers his distraught son's reaction but little else from those...

Base pointing 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 severe impact took. that's where she really, you know -- >> jody sharp had not survived the fall. to cioffi it was clear she had slammed into that tree. as they began to move the body, he noticed something else. >> she had an odor of an alcoholic beverage that emanated from her body. >> when you smelled that did you think well maybe she had had too mu...

Maybe he's in shock? >> no, i've seen people who lost loved ones and i've never seen anybody act that way. >> reporter: but it was a particular moment later inside the station house that really caught the officer's attention. >> and he asked if he could get a direct from the water fountain, he was looking like over his shoulder and splashing his face and made it look like he was crying? >> you thought he was faking tears. >> absolutely, absolutely. >> 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 s...