. >> reporter: it nagged at rescuer michael chiofi.hy was jody's purse on a ledge just feet below where her husband said she'd fallen? >> where is she? she should be here. or part of her should be here. >> that's the first thing that came to you? >> either she should be here or the pocketbook should be down with her. and it wasn't fitting. >> reporter: another thought dawned on him. if jody had tumbled, why hadn't she hit the side of the cliffs? there was no blood or hair anywhere on the rocks. and the location of jody's body seemed off to chiofi, way off. >> she was like 30 to 40 feet away from us to the north. a person falls off the cliff, usually they're going to go south or they're going to go right down. she should have been right down where i got off the ropes. that's where she should have been. >> someone else was scratching his head about that night for different reasons. it had to do with stephen's behavior while the search was under way. officer walter sirry was surprised stephen was willing to leave the lookout as rescuers w