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Killed his wife? the biggest reason, the prosecutor argued, was that steven did not want a divorce. he didn't want a custody fight and he didn't want to split assets with jody. and there was yet another motive for steven, said the prosecutor. a potential payout. >> usa life insurance company. >> an insurance representative testified about a $500,000 policy taken out against jody scharf months before her death. payable to a primary beneficiary. >> can you tell us the policy owner? >> steven f. scharf. >> jody scharf was simply worth more dead than alive. her friend, marian feared that he might ...

Patrol car. >> without a word said. >> stranger seem, when it was described how he had fallen, he made a mental note. >> there was no emotion. like he was reading a script. >> did it occur to you, maybe he's in shock? >> i've seen people who have lost loved ones and i've never seen anybody act that way. >> but it was a particular moment later inside the station house that really caught the officer's attention. >> he asked if he could get a drink from the water fountain. he was looking over his shoulder at me and splashing water into his face and into his eyes to make it look like he was crying...

Something sinister had just happened. >> you didn't think this was a horrible accident? >> no. >> there wasn't a smoking gun, really. just something dark that 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. >> 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 the cliffs, it was divorce. >> she was going to g...

On a cold case. >> dr. michael bodden has determined this couldn't have been an accidental fall. >> 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 it was about. it didn't make sense. >> 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 hand me this thing, this arrest warrant. >> reporter: coming up. the case heads into court with a surprise from the stand. >> steven and jody...

So they came to this romantic, if treacherous spot, to recommit to each other steven said. to kiss and make up. >> the spot where they went, not a spot where you go to reconcile with anybody. >> detectives weren't buying the story for another reason. they had found something suspicious inside scharf's car. a bag filled with items you would expect for a romantic picnic and one you would not. a hammer. >> wine, cheese, crackers, opener, claw hammer. i mean, red flags are going off. they reach the top of the pole at that point. >> did you think that might be a murder weapon. >> i thought that mig...