jody and stephen scharf hiked to a favorite spot along the palisades cliffs to take in the view. while later jody fell over the edge and questions about what really happened that night began to mount. here's chris jansing. >> it was the worst night of his life, and now stephen scharf, in the early morning hours of september 21st, 1992, had to tell his 10-year-old son, jonathan, his mother was dead. >> i said come on, jonathan. we need to take a walk. and i told him. and he immediately burst into tears. and i cried. i cried like a baby. i wasn't ashamed. >> he remembers his distraught son's reaction but little else from those dark hours. >> were you sleeping? were you 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 had 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 th