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It started as a romantic date for a new jersey couple but ended in tragedy. jody and steven sharp hiked to a spot to take in the view but a short while later joedy fell ovr the edge and questions began to mount. >> it was the worst night of his life and now steven sharp, in the early morning hours of september 21st, 1992, had to tell his 10-year-old son jonathan his mother was dead. >> come on, jonathan, we need to take a walk and told him and he immediately burst into tears and i cried. i cried like a baby. i wasn't ashamed. >> he remembers his distraught son's reaction but little else from t...

The obvious, what was a hammer doing in that picnic bag? >> he told us he fixed a drawer in his kitchen with the hammer and he just forgot to put it back in the garage. put it in the bag with the picnic items and it was just convenient, a convenient excuse for having the 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. >> ted was a local officer told to keep an eye o...

When he heard the officer describe how the wife had fallen, he made a mental note. >> no emotion in it. like he was reading a script. >> did it occur maybe he's in shock? >> no, i've seen people who have lost loved ones and never seen anybody act that way. >> 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 and looking over his shoulder and splashing water in his face and rubbing his eyes to make it look like he was crying. >> you thought he was faking tears? >> absolutely. absolute...

>> did he tell you whether or not he was married? >> actually, he said he was not married. >> and remembered something strange steven said to her on the beach over that labor day weekend. >> he was under a lot of stress and stress would be resolved by the end of september. >> two weeks later, jody scharf was dead and terry sees that cryptic statement in a dreadful light, oh, no, the end of september, and then the light bul bulb went off immediately. in perhaps the most chilling testimony of the prosecution's case, he told the jury when she heard her friend was gone, she immediately remembered ...

Flimsy as well. jody and steven had been talking break-up for years. those divorce papers just the latest legal salvo 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 over this divorce. they had talked about divorce for years, maybe she was, you know, saying one thing and not following through. >> though it is true steven scharf did not want a divorce, he wanted to give the marriage another chance. as for the former girlfriend, terry xoe field, she recounted his myster...