scharf. >> jody scharf was simply worth more dead than alive.d, marian feared that he might do something violent if she pushed for the divorce. even so, marian said she was determined to get away from her husband. >> she was going to have the 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. >> do 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 -- >> 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 w

stephen scharf was sentenced to life in prison.him not on the facts, but on his and jody's tumultuous open marriage. you think this was a moral judgment on the part of jurors? >> yes. some would say he was punished for his morals weakness. but this is a murder trial. >> reporter: but for rescuer michael cheoff, it's a fitting end to a story that haunted him since that 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. >> reporter: for close friends like mary ann, the verdict does not remove the sting of the loss. >> i'm angry 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 would have the house. he would have whatever he wanted. and she'd be out of the way. i think that was sad. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline" extra. i'm craig melvin. thanks for

decision done dyker project director for the jerusalem center for public affairs and with now bill scharf foreign affairs advisor to the palestinian president. now for the peace process it actually paves the way to peace because israel will be called upon by the same trumpet ministration to make concessions to its palestinian neighbor which it will be much more ready to do now that a basic wrong has been corrected which is to to rightfully acknowledge that they drew sloan is the capital the possibility is really seem blocked by what mr trump has done gruesome is a very very sensitive issue to the palestinians to the arabs to the muslims and to the christians of the world and what what he has. created a serious situation not only of mistrust but of instability and potential for explosion in this part of the world the palestinian authority looks and the hamas is of course they look for any excuse to call for a day of rage so you know that the hamas is in business to kill israelis and to kill political opponents like the fatah and the p.a. uses the day of rage as an excuse in order to avoid