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She was convinced steven had been cheating on her. >> she couldn't prove anything but women called the house and smimsz they would call and hang up on her. >> in fact, he learned jody 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 sharp. >> there was a sit down with mr. sharp. he's consented to talk, right? >> yes. >> two days after his wife's death, steven sharp was freely answering detective's questions. yes, he told them, he and his wife were talkin...

Seemed off to choffey, way off. >> she was 30 to 40 feet to the north. a person falls off the cliff, usually they go south or go right down. should have been right down where i got off the ropes, that's where she should have been. >> 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, walter seary was surprised he was willing to leave the lookout as rescuers were still looking for jody. >> did he give any indication, i don't want to leave, my wife could still be alive down there? >> not at all. >> he c...

Occurred. and i said was it an accident and he put his head down and he said no. >> aaron bir believed that was a stuing confession and ran to tell the otherdetectives, including lynan b they jt spent hours grilling the man. >> we weren't getting that feeling. >> the detectives still believed they could find solid evidence to implicate steven sharp but they didn't. >> we took it as far as we could go. there -- the cause of death was listed as undetermined so officially it wasn't a homicide. >> in time the detectives moved to other cases and steven sharp moved on too. 14 years after his wife's ...

Have had broken bones ever where. she did not. >> there were no visible injuries on the back of mrs. sharp's body. >> why would steven have killed his wife? the biggest reason the prosecutor argued was that steven did not want to divorce. he didn't want to a custody fight and didn't want to split assets with jody. and there was yet another motive for steven said the prosecutor, a potential payout. >> usaa 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 t...

>> now in court he had even more to tell about his childhood. like the afternoon he sat cowering in the back seat of a car watching his mother suffer. >> my mom was driving and my dad just hitting her with the bottom of his fist and i was just like begging him to stop doing it. >> he also remembered the last day of his mother's life. she 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. >> where was the proof that steven had planned to kill jody that night? well, there was the ham...