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He wasn't in custody. i don't know. >> the defense attorney also argued the defense attorney msad in his home. >> my client never said it was an accident. >> and as for that hammer. >> the hammer was examined by 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're learning from your mistakes on this case? >> crow may call them mistakes, sir. i did the best i could in 1992 documenting what i had observed with ms....

>> no, not at all. >> if it was my wife or girlfriend or whoever they are, they would have to pry me from the top of those cliffs. >> but he willingly got into your patrol car? >> without a word. >> when the officer heard steven describe how his wife had fallen, he made a mental note. >> there was no emotion in it at all. like he was reading a script. >> did it occur to you, maybe he's in shock? >> no, i've seen people who have lost loved ones, i've never seen anybody act that way. >> but it was particular moment later inside the station house that really dot the officer's attention. >> and he...

>> i was there at a rescue mission. i shot she was alive. >> he began to lower himself off the side of the cliff where the woman's husband says she had fallen. about ten feet down he caught sight of a ledge. >> the minute i got to that ledge there was a purse, i think two credit cards. >> on a ledge 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. >> by that point officer walter siree had arrived up at the look ou...

Husband. >> that possibly she was telling everyone if something happens to me it was my husband. >> and it was another woman in stephen's life who also swayed the jury. terry scofield recounting what stephen said to her weeks before jody's death, that his 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 wasn't just a fall from the cliffs. it was a cold-blooded execution. stephen scharf was sentenced to life in prison. ...

Motive, the perfect setting, the violent intent to kill his wife. or was there another way of looking at that couple perched high on those cliffs on a summer night? stephen's new wife says the prosecution has it all wrong. >> my husband is not capable. that is not the man he is. my husband is sweet, kind, loving, considerate. >> the defense was ready to show how stephen scharf, far from villain, was the real victim in this story. >> coming up. >> they destroyed the crime scene area. >> new questions about the evidence, and was there another reason why a son might implicate his dad? >> who does...