Latest Breaking News On - Palisades cliff - Page 1 : comparemela.com
Sacco reiterates support for Palisades Cliffs Protection Act
hudsonreporter.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hudsonreporter.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
but this was a murder trial. reporter: but for rescuer michael cioffi it s a fitting end to a story that s haunted him since that night on the palisades. this has never left me. it s been years. i went back there myself without people knowing it several times because it bothered my. something was wrong. reporter: for close friends like marian, the verdict does not remove the sting of the loss. i m ang go i that he took the life of a beautiful person. that s what bothers me the most. that he would do that and think that he was going to get away with it. he wanted the insurance money. he wanted the his son, the house, war he wanted and she d be out of the way. i think that was sad.
to the north. she had to have been prop propelled from that point. reporter: jody had to have been thrown or pushed to her death, he said and likely from another spot entirely on those cliffs. he wasn t the only expert who saw it that way. of the head and chest injuries are not consistent with someone that tumbles down the cliff face. reporter: dr. marian clayton was the bergen county medical examiner who first ruled the circumstances of jody s death could not be determined. now on second look, she said, the victim s wounds or lack of them told her something different, something vital. if jody had tumbled innocently down the palisades she would have had broken bones everywhere. she did not. there were no visible injuries on the back of mrs. scharf s body. reporter: but why would stephen have killed his wife? the biggest reason the
that possibly she was telling everyone if something happens to me it s my husband. reporter: and it was another woman in stephen s life who also swayed the jury. terry schofield recounting what stephen said to her weeks before jody s death, that his stress would soon be over. that was something that pushed me towards what we decide ted the the end. it was her husband who slipped with that statement. they believe it wasn t just a fall from the cliff, it was a cold-blooded execution. stephen scharf was sentenced to life in prison. he says the jurors condemned him not on the facts but for his and jody s tumultuous open marriage. so you think this was a moral judgment. yes. on the part of jurors. and i suppose some people would say, well, he was punished for his morals weakness.
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
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.