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

It was just convenient. it was a convenient excuse for having the hammer. >> reporter: detectives asked if they could check out the drawer and the rest of stephen's house that night. he agreed. but something potentially far more telling was happening away from the action. >> i said, look, i'm your local police department. >> reporter: ted aaronburg was a local officer told to keep an eye on stephen that night as detectives combed through the house. the officer said he began talking to stephen about what happened to jody when stephen interrupted him. >> he finally looked at me and he goes, you ...

Loved ones. i have never seen anybody act that way. >> reporter: it was a particular moment later, inside the station house that really caught the officer's attention. >> he asked if he could get a drink from the water fountain. he was looking over his shoulder at me, splashing water into his face and rubbing his eyes to make it look like he was crying. >> reporter: you thought he was faking tears? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> reporter: a death scene where the pieces didn't connect. a husband who appeared nonchalant. from a cop's point of view things were adding up and not in stephen's favor....

It was jody lying motionless next to a tree. >> there was a lot of blood on the tree. the blood was draining down the tree. that's where severe impact took. that's where she really -- >> reporter: jody scharf had not survived the fall. it was clear she had slammed into that tree. as he began to move the body he noticed something else. >> she had the odor of alcoholic beverage that emanated from her body. >> reporter: when you smelled that did you think maybe she had too much to drink and fell? >> that entered my mind, yes. >> reporter: at that moment, stephen scharf was sitting in a room at th...

Where i got off the ropes. that's where she should have been. >> reporter: someone else was scratching his head about that night for different reasons. it had to do with stephen's behavior while the search was under way. officer sery was surprised stephen was willing to leave the lookout as rescuers were still looking for jody. did he give any indication, i don't want to leave, my wife could be alive down there? >> not at all. >> reporter: sery said he couldn't believe how willingly scharf got into the car. >> if it was my wife, girlfriend, whoever they would have had to pry me away from the s...