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His wife had died in a freak accident, off a cliff, of all places. how could that happen? and that's exactly what police who were there the night of jody's death wanted to know too. >> right away i got a feeling that there was something definitely wrong. >> it nagged as rescuer michael chiofi. why was jody's purse on a ledge just feet below where her husband said she had fallen? >> where is she? she should be here. part of her should be here. >> that's the first thing that came to you. >> either she should be here or the pocketbook should be down with her. it wasn't fitting. >> another thought...

Strange stephen said to her on the beach over that labor day weekend. >> he was under a lot of stress, and the stress would be resolved by the end of september. >> two weeks later, jody scharf was dead. terry now sees that cryptic statement in a dreadful light. >> i was like, oh, no, the end of september. and then the light bulb went off immediately. >> it also went off for mary anne hilferdi. in perhaps the most chilling testimony of the prosecution's case, she told the jury that when she heard her friend was gone she immediately remembered something jody said weeks earlier. >> she said that,...

Ledge or any part of the cliffs. >> nothing. no blood, no hair, no clothing, no fibers, no skin. >> by that point, officer walter seary had arrived at the lookout. since there was nothing the husband could do to help in the rescue, they took him to police headquarters. on the way stephen recalled the awful moment when his wife disappeared. >> we were walking. she said for me to go back in the car and get the blanket and she slipped and i didn't see her anymore. >> as seary and the man arrived at the station chofi made it to the base of the cliff. he expected to find a wounded woman there, but ...

Them that she was terrified of her husband. >> possibly she was telling everyone if something happened to me it's my husband. >> it was another woman in steven's leif that swayed the jury. >> that was something that pushed me towards what we decided in the end. >> it was the light bulb. >> to them, it wasn't jodey who slipped, but her husband. they believe it wasn't just a fall from the cliffs, it was a cold-blooded execution. steven sharp was sentenced to life in prison. he says the jurors condemned him not on the facts, but for his and jodey's tumultuous open marriage. >> so, you think this ...

>> why didn't you? >> not an interrogation. he wasn't in custody. i don't know. >> the defense attorney also argued that police misinterpreted what his client said in his home just hours later. >> my client never said this wasn't an accident. >> and as for that hammer police thought was a weapon -- >> the hammer was examined by the forensic experts. there was nothing found on that hammer. >> and the defense attorney pressed the medical examiner on her flip-flop. undetermined manner of death in '93. now it was a homicide? really? >> are you trying to say that you are learning from your mistakes...