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what stuck in his mind -- >> in every murder trial, time is an invisible but crucial player for both sides.

>> sixteen 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 stephen 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 marshaled 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 bod, 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. >> and then i said, it was an accident? and he said, no. >> but those facts were not where the case ended. the prosecutor argued that they simply 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 baden, the famous forensic pathologist, told jurors the crime scene spoke 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.

>> and 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 those cliffs. he wasn't the only expert who saw it that way. >> the head and chest injuries are not consistent with someone that tumbled down the cliff face. >> dr. marianne 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 said, 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 mrs. scharf's body. >> but why would stephen have killed his wife? the biggest reason, the prosecutor argued, was that stephen did not want a divorce. he didn't want a custody fight. and he didn't want to split assets with jody. and there was yet another motive for stephen, 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. >> stephen f. scharf. >> jody scharf was simply worth more dead than alive. her friend marion said jody feared stephen might do something violent if she pushed for the divorce. even so, she said, jody was

determined to get away from her husband. >> she was going to have divorce papers served on stephen, and she was very afraid of it. >> yet, was stephen violent enough to kill his wife? an unlikely but powerful witness was about to testify against stephen 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. >> 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 just hitting her with the bottom of his fist. and i was, like, 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. >> but where was the proof that stephen had 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 stephen's old girlfriends. >> i even mentioned to my girlfriend that it was a perfect relationship. >> terri schofield had been dating stephen months before jody scharf's death. >> did mr. scharf tell you whether or not he was married?

>> actually he said he was not married. >> and she remembered something strange stephen 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. terri 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 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'll know who did it. 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. or was there another way of looking at that couple perched high on those cliffs that night? stephen's 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 prosecutor -- >> 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 the money go to? >> it goes to me. >> when "dateline" continues.

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no problem. you want to find a place to park all these things? fuggedaboud it. this is new york. hey little guy, wake up! aw, come off it mate! geico. saving people money on more than just car insurance. stephen scharf is not guilty! >> 18 years after the death of his first wife, more than a decade after the investigation first stalled, stephen scharf was being called a killer. but his defense attorney ed balinkas argued there was no new evidence in this case, no new eyewitnesses. only new opinions.

>> we're talking about the same old facts and circumstances. >> balinkas says 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, stephen scharf, has been wrongfully charged with her death. >> one reason the prosecutor couldn't prove murder has to do with sloppy police work. >> 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. that's a possibility that might have happened. >> and 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 stephen 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. >> and as for that hammer police thought was a weapon? >> the hammer was examined by the 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? >> 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 0.12. that was over the legal limit. >> would be the equivalent of approximately four average-size drinks, wine or beer, something like that. >> a drunken slip and fall, argued the defense. to back that up, the lawyer had his own heavy hitter, famed forensic pathologist dr. cyril wecht. he boasted a resume of star-studded investigations, too, as high profile as the prosecution's dr. badden. 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 just below, causing her mortal wounds. her body then catapulted. >> and out goes the body, and it it hurls into the air. >> into the tree canopy, which then carried her through the abyss and into that distant tree. >> this is what i think happened to explain those injuries of the chest and the head. >> but there was another bubble to burst in the prosecution's case. the motive for murder. stephen 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, stephen scharf, that he even bothered to collect. >> would it throw fuel on the

fire to not do it? wow, i know i look guilty, i am guilty so i better not make this claim. >> you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. >> the other alleged motive, divorce, was flimsy, he said. jody and stephen had talked breakup for years. the divorce papers just the latest salvo in an ongoing marital spat. the prosecutor paints a picture of someone who, frankly, is furious 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 saying one thing and not following through. >> though it is true stephen scharf did not want a divorce, he says he wanted to give the marriage another chance. and as for that former girlfriend, terri schofield? she recounted stephen's mysterious statement just before

jody's death. >> just give me until the end of september and everything will be okay. the stress will be -- a lot of the stress will be gone. >> the defense attorney says that was stephen's clumsy way of trying to dump his girlfriends. and, 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 record keeper 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.

>> remember her showing me her bruises. >> he had 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 a fairly decent guy. >> it was only after detectives told him his dad had just been arrested that the son turned on his father. >> before you found out that your dad was arrested, did you lie? >> yes. >> and 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 stephen scharf's son a spoiled brat -- >> that sounds liksome spoiled kid. >> -- who was not a credible witness. in closing, balinkas insisted that 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, hmm, that's interesting. >> the jurors speak and so does the accused. stephen, did you kill your wife jody? the verdict.

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. and 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 where he was held ever since his arrest in 2008.

he and his wife tina say they've paid a high price for something he didn't do. >> we visit through a plate glass. our daughter is 2 1/2 and has still 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, it's a tragedy for my daughter. and for myself. >> still, he decided not to take the stand in his own defense but told "dateline" that what he said 18 years ago about his wife's death is the truth. >> i wish it didn't happen. i wish we had gone to the comedy club. but i didn't -- i'm innocent. >> but had the jury gotten that same message? when they walked into that deliberating room for the first time, some jurors, in fact, 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 had made up my mind. >> the jurors went back and forth over the evidence. and here's what they came to believe, that jody was likely drunk and that her husband knew it, and 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 for 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. >> and it was another woman in

stephen's life who also swayed the jury. terri schofield recounting what stephen said to her weeks before jody's death, that his stress would soon be over. >> once i heard that, that was something that pushed me towards what we decided in the end, was 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 cliff, it was a cold-blooded execution. but stephen scharf says they condemned him for all the wrong reasons, not on the facts of his wife's death but on his and jody's tumultuous open marriage. so you think this was a moral judgment on the part of the jurors. >> yes. and i suppose some people would say, wl,