>> steven f. scharf. >> jody scharf was worth more dead than alive. iend marion testified that jody feared steven fight do something violent if she pushed for divorce. even so, marion said, jody was determined to get away from her husband. >> she was going to have divorce papers served on steven and she was very afraid of it. >> yet, was steven violent enough to kill his wife? an unlikely but powerful witness was about to testify against steven scharf. >> i'm here for my mother. >> his own son took the stand against him. now a businessman, jonathan scharf painted his father as an angry, violent man who terrorized his mother. >> did you see that abuse? >> i did. >> jonathan scharf said he realized his father had likely killed his mother only after that arrest in 2008. this videotaped interview shows him recalling the dark past for the first time to police. >> she got coffee thrown at her by him. >> 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 mo

steven scharf says for him and his wife jody this was it. rocks forming a lover's chair on the edge of a cliff. >> that was our spot. we would bring a hibachi, lawn chairs, a cooler, she would bring her work from graduate school. >> they had been escaping to this magical place for years, ever since they were newlyweds in a starter apartment in new jersey. up here the air was fresh, and the views seemed limitless. >> it was sort of framed by trees. you could look down to the right and see the view of george washington bridge. >> what they couldn't see from here, of course, was the future. had they caught even a glimpse of what was to come, surely they would have abandoned this place forever. >> steven and jody met in the late '70ness georgia. he was in the army, a book worm who loved the civil war. she taught history. theirs was a meeting first of minds, then hearts. >> how would you sort of describe those early years? were they loving? were they exciting? >> yes. they were, you know -- we were in love. it was ecstatic. >> from there, marriag