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Or any part of the cliffs. >> nothing. no blood. no hair. no clothing, no fibers, no skin. >> reporter: by that point, officer walter seary had arrived at the lookout. since there was nothing the husband could do to help in the rescue, seary was told to get him out of the way and drove him back down to police headquarters. on the way, steven recounted the awful moment when his wife disappeared. >> we were walking. she said to go back to the car and get the blanket. she slipped. i didn't see her anymore. >> reporter: as they arrived at the station, rescuer had made it to the base of the cliff, ...

Off the cliffs. jody had a blood alcohol level of .12. that was over the legal limit. >> equivalent to approximately four average size drinks, wine or beer, something like that. >> reporter: a drunken slip and fall argued the defense. to back that up, the lawyer had his own heavy hitter. famed forensic pathologist dr. wecht. he posted a resume of star-studded investigations as high profile as the prosecution's. only he had a totally different take on how jody died. >> i would call this an accidental death. >> reporter: in his version, which he demonstrated with, of all things, a teddy bear, jo...

Into his patrol car. >> i tell you, if it was my wife, girlfriend, whoever, they would have had to pry me away if i was at the top of the cliffs. >> reporter: he got into your patrol car? >> without a word said. >> reporter: stranger still was how calm the husband seemed. when the officer heard steven describe how his wife had fallen, he made a mental note. >> there was no emotion. no emotion at all. like he was reading a script. >> reporter: did it occur to you, maybe he is in shock? >> no. i've seen people who lost loved ones and i've never seen anybody act that way. >> reporter: it was a pa...

Find your awesome with xfinity xfi and change the way you wifi. welcome back to "dateline extra." it started out as a romantic date. it ended in tragedy. jody and steve hiked to a favorite spot along the cliffs to take in the view. a short while later, jody fell over the edge and questions about what really happened that night began to mount. >> reporter: it was the worst night of his life. now steven, in the early morning hours of september 21, 1992, had to tell his 10-year-old son jonathan his mother was dead. >> i said, come on, jonathan, we need to take a walk. i told him. he immediately...

A husband determined to avoid a costly divorce, lured his wife to the edge of a cliff and forced her off it. >> if he has lied, he is guilty. >> reporter: the state marshalled some familiar facts to tell its story, starting with the crime scene where the prosecutor said the cliffs showed no sign of an accidental tumble. >> no debris, no clothing, no blood, no hair, no tissue. >> reporter: then there was the husband himself, cool and collected in the back of a police car. >> i didn't see any emotion from him at all. >> reporter: who confessed, the prosecutor said, to killing his wife. >> then i...