they were so happy at first, sharing a lovers perched high atop a cliff. but romance turned to danger, she fell from the edge. i would call this an accidental death. but whas it? she said that if anything happens to me, you ll know who did it. a mystery of nearly 20 years heads into court and the husband is on the precipice. did you kill your wife, jody? i did not. what happened on the cliffs edge? hello and welcome to dateline. when police got word that someone had fallen off a cliff, they weren t surprised. the place was known to be dangerous. but even they could not guess that it would take almost 20 years to find out what really happened to a woman out on an evening hike with her husband. here s chris jansen. every couple has it. a shared song, a favorite movie, or maybe a special place. stephen scharf says that for his wife and him jody, this was it. two rocks forming a lover s chair on the edge of a cliff. that was our spot. we would br
atop a cliff. but romance turned to danger. she fell from the edge. i would call this an accidental death. but whas it? she said that if anything happens to me, you ll know who did it. a mystery of nearly 20 years heads into court and the husband is on the precipice. did you kill your wife, jody? i did not. what happened on the cliffs edge? hello and welcome to dateline. when police got word that someone had fallen off a cliff, they weren t surprised. the place was known to be dangerous. but even they could not guess that it would take almost 20 years to find out what really happened to a woman out on an evening hike with her husband. here s chris jansen. every couple has it. a shared song, a favorite movie, or maybe a special place. stephen scharf says that for his wife and him jody, this was it. two rocks forming a lover s chair on the edge of a cliff. that was our spot. we would bring a couple of long chairs, a cooler, and she would bring her work
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
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 homicide. in time the detectives moved on to other cases. stephen shark moved on. to 14 years after his wife s death he remarried. tina says he d been a loving, ideal husband. it was like we were to puzzle pieces made for each other where each of us complemented and completed the other person. but even in this happy new life he says he never forgotten