alcoholic beverage that emanated from her body. so when you smelled that, did you think maybe she had had too much to drink and fell? that entered my mind, yes. at that moment, stephen scharf was sitting in a room at the police station, waiting for someone to tell him what had happened to his wife. he remember was going through your mind at that point? how badly is she hurt? where is she? why isn t she calling back to me? and that s when an officer walks into the room and broke the news to stephen. jody was gone. i don t even remember who came in and told me. and what was your reaction? denial. it was, you know, how could this, how could this happen? that question would haunt him and many others. and it would take years for the answers to finally come. coming up. he was rubbing his eyes to make it look like he was crying.
a son, jonathan in 1983. and how would you describe jody as a mom? she was really devoted. life is good. and even as the years went by, even with the demands of work and family, stephen says he and jody still made time for each other. like that last summer sunday in september of 1992. stephen says it was supposed to be a date night. ould be the most critical day and our life, in our marriage. it was a day like any other day? yes. he was the plan. husband and wife or drive into manhattan and go to a comedy clted night on the town. but they made a detour here, to the palisades, to their spot. stephen remembers pulling up to this scenic lookout, sitting in the car with jody and sharing the wine cooler. there were other people they are sitting in the cars and we walked up over to the spot where the binoculars were and walked up to this sort of open view. he says they then took a well worn path to those rocks. he said they sat there at as the night while around them holdin
talking to stephen about what happened to jody, when stephen interrupted him. he finally looks at me and he goes, you don t believe me. and then the officer says he said something that almost knocked him off his feet. i believe i said an accident occurred, and i said was it an accident? and he put his head down any said, no. he believed there was a stunning confession. he ran to tell the other detectives, including detective . but they had just spent hours grilling the man. we weren t getting that feeling, that a re-interview at that point would ve done anything. the detective still believe they could find salad evidence to implicate stephen scharf, but they didn t. we took it as far as we could. go ahead and bend, the cause of death at the time was listed as undetermined. so officially it wasn t a
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, stumbling forward. jody had gone off the cliff. i didn t know how bad things were, but i was stunned. with did you do? i got down on my stomach and stuck my head over and i just yelled, jody, jody, talk to me. i just yelled down there. but no response. he s got the flashlight and fled down a motorist who claim here to the palisades parkway police station. lieutenant walter siri was on duty. until he came through that door, it was a very quiet night and then all hell broke loose. the frantic man was telling them a woman had fallen from the look out above and that her husband was waiting for help. the police called in michael, an experienced climber.
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