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>> they were so happy at first, sharing a lovers perched high atop a cliff. but romance turned to danger, she fell from the edge. >> i would call this an accidental death. >> but whas it? >> she said that if anything happens to me, you'll know who did it. >> a mystery of nearly 20 years heads into court and the husband is on the precipice. >> did you kill your wife, jody? >> i did not. >> what happened on the cliffs edge? ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello and welcome to dateline. when police got word that someone had fallen off a cliff, they weren't surprised. the place was known to be dangerous....

The police called in michael, an experienced climber. >> i was there as a rescue mission. i thought she was alive. >> he began to lower himself off the side of the cliff where the woman's husband said she had fallen. about ten feet down, he caught sight of allege. >> the minute i got to that ledge, there was a pars. i think there was two credit cards. >> on alleged ten feet down? >> right. >> but it was 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. ...

But detectives have a kind of sixth sense about these cases and his was telling him, something sinister had just happened. >> you don't think this was overall accident? >> no. >> there wasn't any smoking gun, really. just something dark he thought he could read between between the lines in the police notes he reviewed the day after jody's death. >> he did not react like somebody who had 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...

Call today. had been a horrible accident. her husband said so. and the medical examiner was not arguing with him.

About jody. but he might have been surprised to learn that someone else was thinking over to after all these years. bergen county's prosecutor was eager to visit old case files. among them an unexplained death here in the cliffs of the palisades so many years ago. the death of jody charles. >> it was this renewed push since 2002 to look into cold cases. >> this man covered the trial for the record newspaper in new jersey. on one hand he says, it didn't seem like the prosecutor had any reason to pursue the cold case. in terms of hard evidence it had nothing new. but the prosecutor did have some...