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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 sharp months before her death. payable to a primary beneficiary. >> can you tell us the policy owner? >> steven f. sharp. >> jody sharp was simply worth more dead than alive. her friend, maryann, testified that jody feared steven might d...

>> you didn't think this was a horrible accident? >> no. >> there wasn't any smoking gun really. just something dark he 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. >> 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 with it, yes...

Maybe this is a hoax, maybe she never really went off the cliff. >> he and another rescuer began to walk along the base pointing their flashlights north. finally about 30 feet away, they landed on something white. it was jovi lying motionless next to a tree. >> there was a lot of blood on that tree. it was draining down the tree. that's where the severe impact took. >> jody sharp had not survived the fall. it was clear she had slammed into that tree. as they began to move the body, he he noticed something else. >> an alcoholic beverage that emmated from her body. >> so did you think mbe she ha...

Papers served on steven and she was very afraid of it. >> yet was steven violent enough to on kill hkill his wife? and unlikely but powerful witness was about to testify against steven sharp. >> i'm here for my mother. >> his own son took the stand against him. now a businessman, jonathan sharp painted his father as an angry violent man who terrorized his mother. >> did you see that abuse? >> i did. >> jonathan sharp said he realized his father had likely killed his mother only after that arrest in 2008. this videotaped interview shows him recalling the dark past for the first time to police. ...

There was no blood or hair anywhere on the rocks. and the location of jody's body on seemed off. >> she was like 30 to on 40 feet away from us to the north. a person falls off the cliff, usually they will go south or right down. should have been right down where i got off the reasons. >> 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 serig was surprised steven was willing to leave the lookout as rescuers were still looking for jody. >> did he givefully indication i don't want to lea...