new prosecutor and he was eagle story revisit old case files. among them, an unexplained death here on the cliffs of the palisades so many years ago. the death of jody scharf. >> there was this renewed push since 2002 to look into the coal cases. >> reporter: kibrette marcus covered them. he said it didn't seem the prosecutor had any reason to pursue the cold case. >> in terms of hardest, it had absolutely nothing new. >> reporter: but the prosecutor did have someone new. a famous name to join the investigation into jody scharf's death, dr. michael baden, a world renowned forensic pa 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 the heat on a very cold case. >> dr. michael baden has