among them a death on the cliffs of the palisades so many years ago.eath of jody. >> there is a renewed push since 2002 to look into the cold cases. >> reporter: marcos covered the case for the record newspaper in new jersey. on one hand he said it didn't seem the prosecutor had reason to pursue the cold case. >> in terms of hard evidence there was nothing new. >> reporter: the prosecutor did have someone new. a famous fame to join the investigation into jody's death. dr. michael bodden, a world renowned forensic pathologist who investigated the deaths of john f. kennedy and john belushi and testified at the trial of o.j. simpson. he was about to turn up the heat on a cold case. >> dr. bodden reviewed the evidence and determined that it could not have been an accidental fall. >> reporter: in december of 2008, detectives paid one more visit to stephen. >> they wouldn't tell me what it was for. i had no idea what this was about. it make sense. >> reporter: 16 years after that fatal night on the cliff, police were back. and stephen was in for a shock. aft

but they made a detour here to the palisades to their spot. steven remembers pulling up to the scenic lookout sitting in the car with jody sharing a wine cooler. >> there were other people there sitting this their cars and walked up, looked over the spot where the binoculars were and walked up to this sort of open view. >> reporter: he says they then turned and took a well worn path to the rocks and sat there as the night fell around them. he with his back against the rock holding her as she sat directly in front of him. at some point something goes terribly wrong. >> yes. >> reporter: he says he stood up intending to go back to the car to get wine and a blanket. for whatever reason jody stood up too. the edge. the rock was at her feet. what was your last glimpse of your wife? just standing up and, you know, and stumbling forward. >> reporter: jody had gone off the cliff. >> i didn't know how bad things were but i was stunned. >> what did you do? >> i got down on my stomach. i stuck my head over the -- and i just yelled, jody, jodi yi, talk to

but they made a detour here to the palisades to their spot.teven remembers pulling up to the scenic lookout, sitting in the car with jody, sharing a wine cooler. >> there were other people there sitting in their cars and we walked up, looked over the spot where the binoculars were and then walked up to the sort of open view. >> he says they then turned and took a narrow, well-worn path to those rocks. they sat there. he with his back against the rock holding her as she sat directly in front of him. at some point something goes terribly wrong. >> yes. >> he says he stood up intending to go back to the car to get wine and a blanket for whatever reason jody stood up, too. the edge of the rock was at her feet. what was your last glimpse of your wife? >> just standing up and, you know, as -- and stumbling forward. >> jody had gone off the cliff. >> i didn't know how bad things were but i was stunned. i -- >> what did you do? >> i got -- i got down on my stomach. i stuck my head over the -- and i just yelled, jody, jody, talk to me. i just yelled do

picture industry they did integrate into hollywood thomas that went into the palace day days -- palisadeshey stayed to themselves and had nothing to do with the others. they were high germans and i come from a polish jewish family married into a german jewish family and there is a difference. [laughter] i will tell you that. [laughter] >> i think it is interesting that everything is turned into show business can you comment on that. >> i think if you take out the wild west show from american history there is no show business. buffalo bill invented that in a way. there were other traveling circuses but he made it into something he made american history into something spectacular. he mythologized our story inside of his traveling show that he cooked up and was re-creating some of the great milestones in american history of course from the white man's point of view. i do get into the dark side of this that we still live in the wild west that dreamscape we are that kind of country where freedom appears in our founding documents and we pursue happiness were free country and we can do what we w