treacherous spot to recommit to each other, steven said, to kiss and make up. and the spot where they went, it s not a spot where you would go to reconcile with anybody. detectives weren t buying the story for another reason. they had found something suspicious inside his car. a bag filled with items that you would expect for a romantic picnic and one that you would not, a hammer. oh, yeah, wine, cheese, crackers, claw hammer. did you think that might be a murder weapon? yeah, i thought that might have been plan a. and he didn t use it, so he went to plan b. which he believed was to push or throw jody off that cliff. so detectives asked steven sharp the obvious. what was a hammer doing in that picnic bag? he told us he fixed a drawer in his kitchen with the hammer
the obvious, what was a hammer doing in that picnic bag? he told us he fixed a drawer in his kitchen with the hammer and he just forgot to put it back in the garage. put it in the bag with the picnic items and it was just convenient, a convenient excuse for having the hammer. detectives asked if they could check out the drawer and the rest of steven s house that night. he agreed. but as it turned out, something potentially far more telling was happening away from the action. and i said, look, mr. sharp, i m your local police department. ted was a local officer told to keep an eye on steven sharp that night as detectives combed through his house, the officer says he began talking to steven about what had happened to jody when steven interrupted him. he finally looks at me and goes, you don t believe me. then the officer says, sharp said something that almost knocked him off his feet. i said i believe an accident