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from there, marriage. a house, a son jonathan in 1983. >> how would you describe jody as a mom? >> she was devoted. >> life was good. as the years went by, even with the demands of work and family, steven says he and jody still made time for each other. like that last summer sunday in september of 1992. steven said it was supposed to be a date night. >> no idea that would be the most critical day in our life and marriage. >> it was a day like any other day. >> yes. >> here was the plan. husband and wife would drive into manhattan and go to a comedy club. lighthearted night on the town. they made a detour to palisades.

their spot. >> he remembers sitting in the car with jody sharing a wine cooler. >> there were other people. we looked up to the binoculars were and to the open view. >> he says they then turned and took a narrow well worn path to the rocks. they sat there as the night fell around them. he with his back against the rock holding her as she sat directly in front of him. >> at some point something goes terribly wrong? >> yes. >> he says he stood up intending to go back to the car to get wine and blanket. for whatever reason, jody stood up too. the edge of the rock was at her feet. >> what was your last glimpse of your wife? >> standing up and stumbling forward. >> jody had gone off the cliff. >> i didn't know how bad things were, but i was stunned.

>> what did you do? >> i got down on my stomach and stuck my head over and i just yelled. jody! talk to me. i just yelled down there. >> but no response. he grabbed a flashlight and flagged down a motorist who came here to the palisades parkway police station. the lieutenant walter seary was on duty. >> until he came through the door, it was quiet. then all hell broke loose. >> a woman had fallen from the lookout above and her husband was waiting for help. the police called in michael chiafi. an experienced climber. >> i was there as a rescue mission. i thought she was alive. >> he began to lower himself off the cliff where the woman had fallen. he caught sight of the ledge. >> i saw the purse.

i saw two credit cards. >> on a ledge two feet down? >> right. >> it was what he did not see that confused him. no sign that the woman's body 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 had arrived at the lookout. since there was nothing the husband could do to help in the rescue, he was told to get him out of the way and drove him back down to police headquarters. on the way, steven recounted the moment his wife disappeared. >> we were walking and she said go get the blanket. she slipped. i didn't see her anymore. >> as they arrived at the station, the rescuer made it to the base of the cliff more than 100 feet below the top. he expected to find a wounded woman.

he didn't. >> i'm saying she's not here. i thought maybe this is a hoax. maybe she didn't go off the cliff. >> he and another walked along the base. finally about 30 feet away, the flashlight beams landed on something. jody laying next to the tree. >> the blood was bradraining do the tree. that is severe impact. >> jody had not survived the fall. it was clear she slammed into the tree. as they began to move the body. >> an odor of alcoholic beverage that emanated from her body. >> did you think maybe she had too much to drink and fell? >> that entered my mind. >> at that moment, city convenient was sitting -- steven

was sitting at police station. >> do you remember? >> how is she? why isn't she calling back? >> that is when the officer walked in the room and broke the news. jody was gone. >> i don't remember who came in and told me. >> what was your reaction? >> denial. how could this happen? >> that question would haunt him and many others and it would take years for the answers to finally come. >> coming up. >> he was rubbing his eyes to make it look like he was crying. >> you thought he was faking tears? >> absolutely. >> curious behavior puts a husband under the microscope when "dateline" continues.

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it was the worst night of his life. and now steven in the early morning hours of september 21st, 1992, had to tell his 10-year-old son jonathan his mother was dead. >> i said, jonathan, we need tie a walk. i told -- need to take a walk. i told him. he burst into tears. i cried like a baby. i wasn't ashamed. >> he remembers his distraught son's reaction, but little else from the dark hours. >> were you sleeping or eating? >> drinking.

>> you were drinking? >> i lost my wife. my son lost his mom. >> there was plenty of sympathy among family and friends to be sure. for the man newly widowed with a small child to raise on his own. his wife 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 there was something wrong. >> it nagged at michael. why was jody's purse on a ledge feet below where her husband said she fallen? >> where is she? she should be here. or part of her. >> that is the first thing? >> she should be here or pocketbook should be with her. it wasn't fitting. >> another thought dawned on him. if jody tumbled, why hadn't she

hit the side of the clutiff? no blood or hair anywhere on the rocks. the location of the body seemed off. way off. >> she was 30 to 40 feet away from us to the north. no person falls off the cliff. they usually go south or right down. right where she should have been. >> someone else was scratching his head about that night for different reasons. it had to do with steven's behavior while the search was under way. officer walter was surprised steven was willing to leave the lookout as they were still looking for jody. >> did he give any indication i don't want to leave. my wife could be alive if. >> no. >> he said -- alive? >> no. not at all. >> if it was my wife or girlfriend, they would have had to pry me away. >> he willingly got into the patrol car?

>> without a word said. >> stranger still was how calm the husband seemed. when the officer heard steven describe how his wife fallen, he made a mental note. >> there was no emotion. no emotion at all. like he was reading a script. >> did it occur to you he was in shock? >> no. i have seen people who lost loved ones and i never seen anybody act that way. >> it was the 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 at me and splashing water in his face and smashed water in his eyes. >> you thought he was faking tears? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> a death scene where the pieces did not connect. a husband who appeared nonchala nonchalant. things were adding up and not in

steven's favor. >> not just one thing. the totality of the circumstances. every little thing. clicking. this is not right. >> gut instinct is one thing, but evidence is another. people handle terrible events in different ways. the police are paid to be suspicious. maybe their view of steven was too jaundiced. there was nothing to indicate that jody's fall was anything but an accident. a few months later, the ruling was in. the medical examiner concluded the manner of jody's death could not be determined. an accident was as likely as anything else. case closed. or was it? >> the suspicions grow. was there a weapon at the romantic rendezvous? >> coming up. >> wine, cheese, crackers.

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something sinister had just happened. so you didn't think this was a horrible accident? >> no. >> there wasn't any smoking gun really. just something dark he thought he could read between the lines in the police notes he reviewed the day after jody's death. >> he didn't react like somebody who had just lost his wife should have reacted. >> so the detective moved from the physical evidence to the less tangible clues. he quickly learned from jody's friends that this was a couple not in love, but in crisis. the subject wasn't wine and roses on those cliffs. it was divorce. >> she was going to go through with it, yes. absolutely. >> jody's longtime friend told detectives that jody had been determined to take her 10 year old son jonathan 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'd call and hang up on her. >> in fact, linum learned jody had served her husband divorce papers on september 8th, 1992. less than two weeks later, she was dead at the base of the palisades. the timing made him more eager to talk to the widower sharp. there was a sitdown with mr. sharp. he's consented to talk, right? >> yes. >> two days after his wife's death, steven was freely answering detectives' questions. yes, he told them. he and his wife were talking divorce as they had sometimes done during their tempestuous marriage. it was true. there were other women. >> he said there was an open marriage. they were seeing different people. he said he had been with 50 to 60 women. >> she was okay with it, according to him. >> according to him, yeah. >> he told detectives she and jody had become unhappy with the

free love lifestyle so they came to this romantic, treacherous spot to recommit to one another. to kiss and make up. >> the spot where they went is not a spot you go to reconcile with anybody. >> detectives weren't buying the story for another reason. they found something suspicious inside the car. a bag filled with items you would expect for a romantic picnic and one you would not. a hammer. >> you have wine, cheese, crackers, opener claw hammer. if red flags were going off, they reached the top of the pole at that point? >> did you think it was a murder weapon? >> i thought that might have been plan a. he didn't use it so he went to plan b. >> which he believed was to push or throw jody from the cliff. so detectives asked steven the obvious. what was a hammer doing in the picnic bag? >> he said he fixed a draw in

-- drawer in his kitchen with the hammer. he just forgot to put it back in the garage. he put it in the bag with the picnic items. it was just convenient. it was a convenient excuse for having the hammer. >> detectives asked if they could check out the drawer and the rest of steven'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. >> ted aaronburg was a local officer told to keep an eye on steven that night as detectives combed through the house. the officer said he began talking to steven about what happened to jody when steven interrupted him. >> he finally looked at me and he goes, you don't believe me. >> then the officer says he said something that almost knocked him off his feet. >> i said, i believe an accident occurred. i said, was it an accident? he put his head down and he said, no. >> aaronburg believes that was a

stunning confession. he ran to tell the other detectives, including linum but they had spent hours grilling the man. >> we weren't getting the feeling that a reinterview would have done anything. >> the detectives still believed they could find solid evidence to implicate steven, but they didn't. >> we took it as far as we could go. the cause of death was listed as undetermined. so officially it wasn't a homicide. >> in time, the detectives moved on to other cases. steven moved on, too. 14 years after his wife's death he remarried. tina said he's been a loving, ideal husband. >> it was like we were two puzzle pieces that were made for each other. each of us complemented and completed the other person. >> even in this the happy, new life he says he's never forgotten about jody. but he might have been surprised to learn that someone else was thinking of her, too, after all these years.

the county had a new prosecutor and he was eager to revisit old case files. among them a death on the cliffs of the palisades so many years ago. the death of jody. >> there is a renewed push since 2002 to look into the cold cases. >> marcos covered the case for the record newspaper in new jersey. on one hand he said it didn't seem the prosecutor had reason to pursue the cold case. >> in terms of hard evidence there was nothing new. >> the prosecutor did have someone new. a famous name to join the investigation into jody's death. dr. michael bodden, a world renowned forensic pathologist who investigated the deaths of john f. kennedy and john belushi and testified at the trial of o.j. simpson. he was about to turn up the heat on a cold case.

>> dr. bodden reviewed the evidence and determined that it could not have been an accidental fall. >> in december of 2008, detectives paid one more visit to steven. >> they wouldn't tell me what it was for. i had no idea what this was about. it didn't make sense. >> 16 years after that fatal night on the cliff, police were back. and steven was in for a shock. after all these years you thought it was done. >> not until they reached behind and handed me this thing. this arrest warrant. >> coming up, the case heads into court with a surprise from the stand. >> i'm here for my mother. >> steven and jody's only son has some dark secrets to share. >> did you see the abuse? >> i did. >> when "dateline" continues. for mild-to-moderate eczema, eucrisa

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>> in every murder trial, time is an invisible but crucial player for both sides. >> 16 years! >> sometimes it hurts a case. memories fade, evidence is lost, witnesses die. but time can also put evidence in a new light. such was the case in the trial of steven scharf, accused of killing his wife nearly two decades ago. >> there is no statute of limitations on murder. >> the prosecutor promised the evidence would tell a story as simple as it was brutal. 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. >> the state marshalled 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.

>> 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, sir. >> who later confessed, the prosecutor said, to killing his wife. >> then i said, it was an accident? he said, no. >> but those facts were not where the case ended. the prosecutor argued that they set the stage for the real case a story told by the victim's friends, family and most importantly, by a star witness. >> my opinion is that the manner of death is homicide. >> dr. michael bodden, the forensic pathologist, told jurors the crime scene speak of a murder, not an accident. >> if a person falls accidentally, the individual will be, you know, within a couple of feet of the base of the building.

>> that didn't happen in the case of jody scharf. 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. >> jody had to have been thrown or pushed to her death, he said. and likely from another spot entirely on the cliffs. he wasn't the only expert who saw it that way. >> of the head and chest injuries are not consistent with someone that tumbles down the cliff face. >> dr. clayton was the bergen county medical examiner who first ruled the circumstances of jody's death could not be determined. now on second look she says the victim's wounds or lack of them told her something different, something vital. if jody had tumbled innocently down the palisades she would have had broken bones everywhere. she did not. >> there were no visible injuries on the back of her body.

>> why would steven have killed his wife? the biggest reason, the prosecutor argued, was that steven did not want a divorce. he didn't want a custody fight. he didn't want to split assets with jody. and there was yet another motive for steven, said the prosecutor, a potential payout. >> usaa life insurance company. >> an insurance representative testified about a $500,000 policy taken out against jody scharf months before her death. payable to a primary beneficiary. >> can you tell us the policy owner? >> steven f. scharf. >> jody scharf was worth more dead than alive. her friend marion testified that jody feared steven fight do something violent if she pushed for divorce. even so, marion said, jody was determined to get away from her husband. >> she was going to have divorce

papers served on steven and she was very afraid of it. >> yet, was steven violent enough to kill his wife? an unlikely but powerful witness was about to testify against steven scharf. >> i'm here for my mother. >> his own son took the stand against him. now a businessman, jonathan scharf painted his father as an angry, violent man who terrorized his mother. >> did you see that abuse? >> i did. >> jonathan scharf said he realized his father had likely killed his mother only after that arrest in 2008. this videotaped interview shows him recalling the dark past for the first time to police. >> she got coffee thrown at her by him. >> now in court, he had even more to tell about his childhood. like the afternoon he sat cowering in the back seat of a

car watching his mother suffer. >> my mom was driving and my dad was hitting her with the bottom of his fist. i was just begging him to stop doing it. >> he also remembered the last day of his mother's life. he was 10 and said his mother told his father that she didn't want to go out with him alone. >> she said, if i wanted to go out with you, i wouldn't be divorcing you. >> where was the proof that steven planned to kill jody that night? well, there was the hammer in the picnic bag. but there was also testimony from this woman one of steven's old girlfriends. >> i even mentioned to my girlfriend that it was a perfect relationship. >> terry schofield had been dating steven months before jody's death. >> did mr. scharf tell you whether or not he was married? >> actually, he said he was not married.

>> she remembered something strange steven 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. then the light bulb went off immediately. >> it also went off for marion. in perhaps the most chilling testimony of the prosecution's case she told the jury when she heard her friend was gone she immediately remembered something jody said just weeks earlier. >> she said that during this conversation that i had with him, if anything happens to me, you'll know who did it. she said, you'll know it was him. >> the prosecutor's position was clear. a husband with a motive. the perfect setting. the violent intent to kill his wife.

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steven scharf is not guilty! >> 18 years after the death of his first wife, more than a decade after the investigation stalled, steven scharf was being called a killer, but his defense attorney argued there was no new evidence, no new eyewitnesses, only new opinions. >> we're talking about the same old facts and circumstances. >> he said the state was hoping to win a murder conviction by painting his client as a terrible husband. that it couldn't prove he was a killer in 1992 and it couldn't

prove it today. >> my client, steven scharf, has been wrongfully charged with her death. >> one reason the prosecutor couldn't prove murder had to do with sloppy police work, the defense attorney said, suggesting it had been like keystone cops on the palisades that fatal night. >> you never photographed the body before you moved it, did you? >> no, sir. >> why didn't they take photographs? they destroyed the crime scene area. >> they didn't even bother to question potential eyewitnesses, he said. instead, they cleared visitors from the lookout. there might have been someone who saw something or heard something. >> there might have been. there's a possibility that might have happened. >> if police were so suspicious of his client two nights later, the defense said, why didn't they videotape their interview with him? that way, jurors could have judged steven scharf's

supposedly odd demeanor for themselves. 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. >> as for that hammer police thought was a weapon. >> the hammer was examined by the forensic experts. there was nothing found on that hammer. >> 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? >> you may call them mistakes, sir. i did the best i could in 1992, documenting what i had observed with mrs. scharf. >> the medical examiner was helpful to the defense in one

critical way though. she determined that jody had been drunk the night she fell off the cliff. jody had a blood alcohol level of .12. that was over the legal limit. >> it would be equivalent to approximately four average sized drinks wine or beer, something like that. >> a drunken slip and fall argued the defense. to back it up the lawyer had his own heavy hitter. famed forensic pathologist dr. cyril wecht. he posted a resume of star studded investigations too. only wecht had a totally different take on how jody scharf died. >> i would call this an accidental death. >> in wecht's version, which he demonstrated with, of all things, a teddy bear, jody fell off the cliff and onto jagged rocks below causing her mortal wounds. her body then catapulted. >> out goes the body and it

hurtles into the air. >> into the tree canopy which then carried her through the abyss into the distant tree. >> this is what i think happened to explain those injuries of the chest and of the head. >> but there was another bubble to burst in the prosecution's case. the motive for murder. steven scharf wasn't a greedy killer, his attorney said. his client never made a claim on that insurance policy. it was only after the money was turned over to the state, years later, he said, that steven scharf even bothered to collect. >> would it throw fuel on the fire not to do it? well, i know i look guilty because i am guilty. i better not make the claim. >> damned if you do, damned if you don't. >> the other alleged motive, divorce, was flimsy as well. jody and steven had been talking breakup for years.

the divorce papers, just the latest legal salvo in an ongoing marital spat. >> the prosecutor paints a picture of someone who, frankly, is serious about this divorce. >> no one person ever indicated that my client was furious over this divorce. they had talked about divorce for years. maybe she was, you know, saying one thing and not following through. >> though it is true stephen scharf didn't want a divorce. he said he wanted to give the marriage another chance. as for that former girlfriend, she recounted stephen's mysterious statement before jody's death. >> just give me to the end of september and everything will be okay. a lot of the stress will be gone. >> the defense attorney said that was stephen's clumsy way of trying to dump his girlfriends. speaking of which, he added,

those other women did not bother jody at all. she was seeing other people herself. >> the person on the bottom half in both of those is who? >> jody scharf. >> the recordkeeper of a dating service testified that jody's name was on an application. she even checked off the interests she'd like to share with a mate. the attorney offered that as proof of stephen and jody's open marriage. but what really rankled the defense, what had torn at the heart of stephen scharf was the testimony of his son jonathan. >> i remember her showing me her bruises. >> he painted his father as a brute and possibly a killer. >> i never hit jody. it made me sick to my stomach. >> the young man wasn't to be believed, said the lawyer. for one thing, when police interviewed jonathan back in 2008, the young man described

his dad as a good guy. >> i think he was you know, fairly decent, you know fairly decent guy. >> it was only after detectives told him his dad had just been arrested that the son turned on his father. >> she got coffee thrown at her. >> before you found out that your dad was a rested did you -- your dad was arrested, did you lie? >> yes. >> did you lie more than once? >> yes. >> why would jonathan turn on his father and lie? the defense lawyer said it was jonathan, not his dad, who was motivated by greed. if stephen scharf was convicted, his son would get all that insurance money. >> who does the money go to? >> it goes to me. >> in the end, the lawyer called steven scharf's son a spoiled brat.

>> that's some spoiled kid. >> who was not a credible witness. in closing the attorney insisted this wasn't a murder case. just a sad story about a woman who tumbled drunkenly to her death. >> this case is an accident. nothing more. nothing less. >> soon it would be in the hands of a jury. >> coming up. >> it was the light bulb. you couldn't help but think that's interesting. >> the jurors speak. what would they decide? >> steven, did you kill your wife jody? >> the verdict when "dateline" continues.

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so, no hot dog suit? not unless you want to. no. schedule a complimentary goal planning session today with td ameritrade®. >> welcome back to "dateline." the jury is about to decide the fate of steven scharf. here is chris jansing with the conclusion of the story. >> 18 years after a night that ended in his wife's death off a cliff, stephen scharf stood accused of murder by the state of new jersey. through it all, one thing he wants you to know is this he would never have laid a hand on his beloved jody never. stephen, did you kill your wife jody? >> i did not hurt jody. i did not. >> did you throw her off the

palisades? >> i did not. i did not. i didn't hurt jody. i didn't push her. i didn't cause her to get hurt. i didn't kill my wife. >> we talked to stephen scharf at the bergen county jail where he was held for more than two years after his arrest in 2008. he and his wife tina say they have paid a high price for something he didn't do. >> we visited through a slate of glass. our daughter is 2 and a half and has never been held by her father because we don't have contact visits. >> it's not just a tragedy for jody. it's a tragedy for john. it's a tragedy for my wife. for my daughter. and for myself. >> still, he decided not to take the stand in his own defense. but told "dateline" that what he first said years ago about his wife's death was the truth. >> i wish it didn't happen. wish we had gone to the comedy club.

but i -- i'm innocent. >> had the jury gotten that same message when they walked into the deliberating room for the first time, some jurors planned to vote not guilty. >> there wasn't enough evidence for me. that's what it was. >> others were thinking "guilty." >> it was several things. it was no one thing that made up my mind. >> the jurors went back and forth over the evidence. here's what they came to believe. that jody was likely drunk and her husband knew it. if that was the case, why would he let her get so close to the edge of a cliff? >> as the husband, knowing that your wife was drinking, would you bring her there? >> the jurors deliberated three days before deciding whether stephen scharf should be found guilty or not guilty of a single count of murder. >> on the charge of murder of jody ann scharf your verdict is >> guilty.

>> guilty. later, jurors said what united them was the testimony of jody's friend telling them that jody was terrified of her husband. >> that possibly she was telling everyone if something happens to me it's my husband. >> it was another woman in stephen's life who swayed the jury. terry schofield recounting what stephen said to her weeks before jody's death, that his stress would soon be over. >> that was something that pushed me toward once we decided in the end. that statement. >> it was the light bulb. when she first said it, you couldn't help but think, hmm, that's interesting. >> 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 coldblooded execution. stephen scharf was sentenced to life in prison. he says the jurors condemned him, not on the facts, but for his and jody's tumultuous open marriage.

you think this was a moral judgment on the part of jurors? >> yes. i suppose some people would say, well, he was punished for his moral weakness. but this was a murder trial. >> for rescuer michael chiefy it's a fitting end to a story that's haunted him since the night on the palisades. >> this has never left me. it's been years. i went back there myself without people knowing it several times because it bothered me. something was wrong. >> for close friends like marion, the verdict does not remove the sting of the loss. >> i'm angry that he took the life of a beautiful person. that's what bothers me the most. that he would do that and think that he was going to get away with it. he wanted the insurance money. he wanted his son. he'd have whatever he wanted and she would be out of the way. i think that was sad.

>> that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dis "dateline." she told archie she was dating this man. if he didn't like it, he could leave. >> he had been stabbed multiple times. nobody saw anything. >> i went, dad. and i touched him. i will never forget that feeling. >> it was just before dawn when he found his father dead in the driveway. >> there was no doubt in my mind what happened. i immediately knew. >> there was someone else who may have known too.