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>> time is an invisible but crucial player for both sides. >> 16 years. >> sometimes it hurts a case. memories fade. evidence is lost. but time can also put evidence in a new light. >> such was the case of the trial of steven sharp, accused of killing his wife nearly two decades ago. >> there is no statute of limitations on murder. >> the prosecutor promised the evidence would tell a story as simple as it was brutal. a husband determined to avoid a costly divorce lured his wife to the edge of a cliff and forced her off it. >> if he has lied, he is guilty. >> the state marshall brought up some ...

>> it's what he didn't see that confused him. there was no sign that the woman's body had also hit that ledge or any part of the cliffs. >> nothing, no blood, no hair, no clothing, no fibers, no skin. >> by that point, the officer had arrived at the lookout. since there was nothing the husband could do to help in the rescue, siri was told to get him out of the way and drove him back down to police headquarters. steven recounted the awful moment when his wife disappeared. >> we were walking and she said for me to get the blanket. she slipped and i didn't see her any more. >> rescuer cheoffey ha...

>> women called the house. and sometimes they call and hang up on her. >> in fact, he learned jodi had served her husband divorce papers on september 8th, 1992. less than two weeks later, she was dead at the base of the palisades. the timing made him even more eager to talk to the widower. >> there was a sitdown with mr. sharp, he's consented to talk, right? >> two days after his wife's death. steven sharp was freely answering detective's questions, yes, he told them. he and his wife were talking divorce, as they had sometimes done during their tempestuous marriage. >> he told us they had an o...

Center had just happened. he thought he could read between the lines in the police notes he reviewed the day after jodi's death. >> he did not react like somebody who just lost his wife should have. he quickly learned from jodi'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 with it, yes. absolutely. jodi's long time friend said jodi had been determined to take her 10-year-old son jonathan and leave her husband. she was convinced steven had been cheating on her.

Said no. >> he believed that was a stunning confession. he ran to tell the other detectives, including lynam. but they had just spent hours grilling the man. >> we weren't getting that feeling, that reinterview at that point would have done anything. >> the detectives still believe they could find solid evidence to implicate steven sharp, but they didn't. >> we took it as far as we could go. the cause of death was listed as undetermined. so officially it wasn't a homicide about. >> in time, the detectives moved on to other cases. steven sharp moved on too. 14 years after his wife's death, he r...