murder weapon? yeah i thought it might have been plan a. 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 stephen scharf the obvious. what was the hammer doing in that picnic bag? he told us he fixed the draw drawer in his kitchen, with the hammer, and he forgot to put it back in the garage. he put it in the bag with the picnic items. it was just convenient. a convenient excuse for having that hammer. detectives asked if they could check out the drawer in the rest of stephen 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. sheriff, i m your local police department. ted ehrenberg was a local officer, told to keep an eye on stephen that night as detectives come to his house. the officer says he begins
underway. officer walter surrey, was surprised even was willing to leave, the look out, as researchers were still looking for jody. did he give any indication i don t want to leave. my wife could be down there. now. none at all. siri says he couldn t believe how willing the stephen scharf got into his control car. i tell you if it was my wife, or girlfriend, whoever they would have had to pry me away from that scene, if it was still at the top of the cliff. he was willingly got into his patrol car. without a word. stranger still is how calm the husband seemed. when the officer heard stephen describe how his wife had fallen, he made a mental note. there was no emotion in it. none at all. it was like he was reading a script. did it occur to you that, maybe he s in shock? no. i ve seen people who have lost loved ones, i ve never seen anybody act that way. but it was a particular moment later inside the station house, that really caught his attention. he asked if he could get a dri
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but his defense attorney argued that there was no new evidence in this case. no new eyewitnesses, only new opinions. talking about the same old facts and circumstances. he said the state was hoping to win a murder conviction by painting his client as a terrible husband. that it couldn t prove that he was a killer in 1992, and it couldn t prove it today. my client, stephen scharf has been wrongfully charged with her death. and one reason the prosecutor could not prove murder had to do with slimy police work, suggesting you have been like keystone comps on the palisades that fatal night. you never photographed the body before you moved it, did you? no sir. why didn t he take
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