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The base of the building. >> and that didn't happen in the case of jody scharf. her body landed 50 feet out from the top of a cliff, and 30 feet to the north. >> she had to have been propelled from that point. >> jody had to have been thrown or pushed to her death, he said. and likely from another spot entirely on those cliffs. he wasn't the only expert who saw it that way. >> the head and chest injuries are not consist with someone that tumbles down the cliff face. >> dr. marryanne, clayton was the burgen county medical examiner who first ruled the circumstances of jody's death could not be d...

>> either she should be here or the pocketbook should be down with her. and it wasn't fitting. >> another thought dawned on him. if jody had tumbled, why hadn't she hit the side of the cliffs? there was no blood or hair anywhere on the rocks. and the location of jody's body seemed off to him. way off. >> she was like 30 to 40 feet away from us to the north. when a person falls off a cliff usually they're going to go south or right down. right down where the got off the ropes, that's where she should have been. >> someone else was scratching their head that night for different reasons. it had t...

The subject wasn't wine and roses on those cliffs. it was divorce. >> she was going to go through with it, yes. absolutely. >> reporter: jody's longtime friend marion told detectives that skro that jody had been determined to take her son and leave her husband. she was convinced steven had been cheating on her. >> she couldn't prove anything. but women called the house. sometimes they would call and hang up on her. >> reporter: in fact, they learned jody served divorce papers on september 8, 1992. less than two weeks later, she was dead. the timing made him more eager. >> reporter: two days af...

Case, she told the jury that when she heard her friend was gone, she immediately remembered something jody said just weeks earlier. >> she said that during this conversation i have with him, if anything happens to me, you will know who did it. she said, you will know it was him. >> reporter: the prosecutor's position was clear, a husband with a motive. the perfect setting. the violent intent to kill his wife. or was there another way of looking at that couple perched high on the cliffs on a summer night? steven's new wife says the prosecution has it all wrong. >> my husband is not capable. tha...

Friends, family and most importantly by a star witness. >> my opinion is that the manner of death is homicide. >> reporter: the doctor, famous forensic pathologist, told jurors of crime scene spoke of a murder, not an accident. >> if a person falls accidentally, the individual will be within a couple of feet of the base of the building. >> reporter: that didn't happen in the case of jody. her body landed 50 feet out from the top of the cliff. and 30 feet to the north. >> she had to have been propelled from that point. >> reporter: jody had to have been thrown or pushed to her death, he said. a...