night of his life and now steven sharf in the early morning hours of september 21, 1992 had to tellld son, jonathan, his mother was dead. >> i said we need today take a walk. and i told him and me immediately burst into tears. and i cry like i baby and i wasn't ashamed. >> he remembers his distraught son's reaction but little else from those hours. were you sleeping, eating or were you -- >> i was drinking. i had my my wife and his son lost his mom. >> there was plenty of sympathy to be sure. 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 death wanted to know, too. >> right away i got a feeling that there was something definitely wrong. >> it nagged at rescuer michael chiofy. why was jody's purse on a ledge, just feet below where her husband said she had fallen. >> either she should be here or the pocketbook should be down with her. and it wasn't fitting. >> 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 a