the defense lawyer said it was jonathan, not his dad, who was motivated by greed. if stephen scharfed, 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! >> d

>> i did. >> jonathan scharf said he realized his father had likely killed his mother only after that 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? >> actuall