scharf as they looked through his house. he started talking to him about jodyn interrupted me and he looks at me and he goes, you don't believe me. >> then the officer says, scharf 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. >> he believes that was a stunning confession. he ran to tell the other detectives, including lineham. but they had spent hours grilling the man. >> we weren't getting that feeling that a reinterview at that point would have done anything. >> they still believed they could find solid evidence but they didn't. >> the cause of death at that time was listed as undetermined. so officially, it wasn't a homicide. >> in time, the detectives moved on to other cases. steven scharf moved on, too. 14 years after his wife's death, he remarried. tina scharf says he was a loving, ideal husband. >> they were like two puzzle pieces made for each other. each of us complemented and completed the other. >> in his happy new life, he's never forgo

seeing other people herself. >> the person on the bottom half in both of those is who 1234. >> jodi scharf a dating service testified that jodi'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 jodi's open marriage. what really rangeled the defense, what had torn at the heart of stephen was the testimony of his son jonathan. >> i remember her showing me her bruises. >> he had painted his father as a brute and possibly a killer. >> i never hit jodi. 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's 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. >> reporter: why would jonathan turn on his father and lie? the defense lawyer said it was jonathan, n