there wasn t any smoking gun really. just something dark lineham thought he could read between the lines in the police notes he reviewed the day after jody s death. he did not react like somebody who just lost his wife should have reacted. and so the detective moved his investigation from the physical evidence to the less tangible clues. he quickly learned from jody s friends that this was a couple not in love but in crisis. the subject wasn t wine and roses on those cliffs. it was divorce. she was going to go through with it. yes. absolutely. jody s long-time friend marianne hilferty told detectives jody had been determined to take her 10-year-old son jonathan and leave her husband. she was convinced stephen had been cheating on her. she couldn t prove anything, but women called the house. and sometimes they d call and hang up on her.
two weeks later jody scharf was dead. terry now sees that cryptic statement in a dreadful light. i was like oh, no, the end of september, and then the light bulb went off immediately. it also went off for marian hilferty. in perhaps the most chilling testimony of the prosecution s case, hilferty told the jury that when she heard her friend was gone she immediately remembered something jody said just weeks earlier. she said that during this conversation i have with him if anything happens to me you ll know who did it. she said, you ll know it was him. the prosecutor s position was clear. a husband with a motive. the perfect setting. the violent intent to kill his wife. or was there another way of look at that couple perched high on those cliffs on a summer night? stephen s new wife says the prosecution has it all wrong.
was dead. terry now sees that cryptic statement in a dreadful light. i was like oh, no, the end of september, and then the light bulb went off immediately. it also went off for marian hilferty. in perhaps the most chilling testimony of the prosecution s case, hilferty told the jury that when she heard her friend was gone she immediately remembered something jody said just weeks earlier. she said that during this conversation i have with him if anything happens to me you ll know who did it. she said, you ll know it was him. the prosecutor s position was clear. a husband with a motive. the perfect setting. the violent intent to kill his wife. or was there another way of look at that couple perched high on those cliffs on a summer night? stephen s new wife says the prosecution has it all wrong.
just something dark lineham thought he could read between the lines in the police notes he reviewed the day after jody s death. he did not react like somebody who just lost his wife should have reacted. and so the detective moved his investigation from the physical evidence to the less tangible clues. he quickly learned from jody s friends that this was a couple not in love but in crisis. the subject wasn t wine and roses on those cliffs. it was divorce. she was going to go through with it. yes. absolutely. jody s long-time friend marianne hilferty told detectives jody had been determined to take her 10-year-old son jonathan and leave her husband. she was convinced stephen had been cheating on her. she couldn t prove anything, but women called the house. and sometimes they d call and hang up on her.
happened. so you didn t think this was a horrible accident? no. there wasn t any smoking gun really. just something dark lineham thought he could read between the lines in the police notes he reviewed the day after jody s death. he did not react like somebody who just lost his wife should have reacted. and so the detective moved his investigation from the physical evidence to the less tangible clues. he quickly learned from jody s friends that this was a couple not in love but in crisis. the subject wasn t wine and roses on those cliffs. it was divorce. she was going to go through with it. yes. absolutely. jody s long-time friend marianne hilferty told detectives jody had been determined to take her 10-year-old son jonathan and leave her husband. she was convinced stephen had been cheating on her. she couldn t prove anything,