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Usually they're going to go south or they're going to go right down. should have been right down where i got off the ropes. >> reporter: someone else was scratching his head about that night for different reasons. it had to do with steven's behavior while the search was under way. officer walter serrie was surprised steven was willing to leave the lookout as rescuers were still looking for jody. did he give any indication, i don't want to leave, my wife could still be alive down there? >> no, not at all. >> reporter: serrie says he couldn't believe how willingly steven sharp got into his patro...

Alcoholic beverage that emanated from her body. >> so when you smelled that did you think maybe she had had too much to drink and fell? >> at that moment, yes. >> steven sharp was waiting in a police station for someone to tell him what it happened to his wife. do you remember what goes through your mind at that point? >> how badly is she hurt? where is she? >> and that's when an officer walked into the room and broke the news to steven. jody was gone. >> i don't even remember who came in and told me. >> and what your reaction? >> how could this happen? >> that question would haunt him and man...

Pieces didn't connect. a husband who appeared n nonchallant. from a cop's point of view things were adding up and not in steven's favor. >> it was the totality of the circumstances. every little thing was clicking in my mind. and i'm saying to myself, this isn't right. something is wrong here. >> gut instinct is one thing. people are paid to be suspicious. maybe their view of steven was too jaundiced. a few months later the ruling was in. the burgen county medical examiner concluded the manner of jody sharf's death could not be determined. the accident was like anything

Obvious. what was a hammer doing in that picnic bag? >> well, he told us he fixed a drawer in his kitchen with a hammer. he put it in the bag with his picnic items. it was a convenient excuse for having that hammer. >> detectives asked if they could check out the drawer and the rest of steven's house that night. he agreed. but as it turned something potentially far more telling was happening away from the action. >> and i said, look, mr. scharf, i'm your local police department. >> he was a local officer told to keep an eye on stephen scharf that night as detectives combed through his house. t...

>> either she should be here or the pocketbook should be down with her. and it wasn't fitting. >> another thought dawned on him. if jody had tumbled, why hadn't she hit the side of the cliffs? there was no blood or hair anywhere on the rocks. and the location of jody's body seemed off to him. way off. >> she was like 30 to 40 feet away from us to the north. when a person falls off a cliff usually they're going to go south or right down. right down where the got off the ropes, that's where she should have been. >> someone else was scratching their head that night for different reasons. it had t...