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And he just forgot to put it back in the garage. he put it in the bag with the picnic items, it was just convenient. 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 out, something potentially far more telling was happening away from the action. >> and i said look, mr. sharp, i'm your local police department. >> a local officer was told to keep an eye on steven sharp that night as detectives combed through his house. the officer says he began talking to steven about what had h...

>> the doctor has reviewed the evidence and determined that this could not have been an accidental fall. >> in december of 2008, detectives paid one more visit to steven sharp. >> they wouldn't tell me what it was for. i had no idea what this was about. it didn't make sense. >> 16 years after that fatal night on the cliff, police were back. and steven sharp 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. coming up -- the case heads into court with a surprise from the stand. >> i'm hear for...

Turned over to the state years later he said that steven sharp even bothered to collect. >> would it throw fuel on the fire not do it? wow, i know i look guilty because i am guilty, i better not make this claim. >> you're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't. >> the other alleged motive, divorce, was flimsy as well he said. jody and steven had been talking breakup for years. those divorce papers just the latest in an ongoing marital spat. >> the prosecutor paints a picture of someone who, frankly, is furious about this divorce. >> no one person ever indicated that my client was furious...

Later, jurors said what united them was the testimony of jody's friend, telling them that jody was terrified of her husband. >> that possibly she was telling everyone if something happens to me, it's my husband. >> and it was another woman in steven's life who also swayed the jury. terry schofield recounting what steep said to her week befos be jody's death, that her stress would soon be over. >> that was something that pushed me towards what we decided in the end. >> it was the light bulb. >> to them, it wasn't jody who slipped, but her husband with that menacing statement. they believed it w...

>> my mom was driving and my dad was hitting her with the bottom of his fist. and i was like begging him to stop doing it. >> he also remembered the last day of his mother's life. he was 10. and said his mother told his father that she didn't want to go out with him alone. >> she said if i wanted to go out with you, i wouldn't be divorcing you. >> but why was the proof that steven had planned to kill jody that night? well, there was the hammer in the picnic bag. but there was also testimony from this woman, one of steven's old girlfriends. >> i enmentiven mentioned to my girlfriend that it was...