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
now a businessman, jonathan scharf painted his father as an angry, violent man who terrorized his mother. did you see that abuse? i did. jonathan scharf said he realized his father had likely killed his mother only after that arrest in 2008. this video tape interview shows henry calling the dark past for the first time to police. she got coffee thrown out her a lot. now in court, he had even more to tell about his childhood. like the afternoon he sat cowering in the back seat of a car watching his mother suffer. my mom was driving in my dad just hitting her with the bottom of his fist. and i was just like, begging him to stop doing it. he also remember the last day of his mother s life. he was ten and his said his mother told his father that she didn t want to go out with him alone. she said, if i wanted to go out with you, i wouldn t be divorcing you. but where was the proof that stephen had plans to kill jodi
the stand. i m here for my mother. stephen and jody s only son, has some dark secrets to share. did you see that abuse? i did. when dateline continues. feel darkest before dawn. with caplyta, there s a chance to let the light shine through. and light tomorrow, with the hope from today. this is a chance to let in the lyte. caplyta is a once-daily pill that is proven to deliver significant relief across bipolar depression. unlike some medicines that only treat bipolar i, caplyta treats both bipolar i and bipolar ii depression. and in clinical trials, movement disorders and weight gain were not common. call your doctor about sudden mood changes, behaviors, or suicidal thoughts. antidepressants may increase these risks in young adults. elderly dementia patients have increased risk of death or stroke. report fever, confusion, stiff or uncontrollable muscle movements which may be life threatening or permanent. these aren t all the serious side effects.
welcome back to dateline, i m craig melvin. years after jody fell to her death, a new prosecutor reopen the case and brought in a famous forensic pathologists to re-examine the evidence. what would he uncover? here again is christiansen. what s stuck in his mind in every murder trial, the time is an invisible but crucial player for both sides. 16 years sometimes it hurts a case. memories fade, evidence blows off. witnesses die. but time can also put evidence in a new light. such was the case in a trial of stephen scharf, accused of killing his wife nearly two decades ago. there is no statute of limitations on murder. the prosecutor promised the evidence would tell a story as simple as it was brutal. a husband determined to avoid a costly divorce lured his wife to the edge of a cliff and forced her off it. if he has lied, he is guilty. the state marshaled some familiar facts to start its story. started with a crime scene where the prosecutor said the cliffs showed no
it also went off for marion. and perhaps the most chilling testimony of the prosecution s case, marion told the jury that when she heard her friend was gone, she immediately remembered something jody just said 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 looking at that couple perched high on those cliffs on a summer night? stephen s new wife says the prosecution has it all wrong. my husband is not capable. that is not the man he is. my husband is sweet, kind, loving, considerate. the prosecutor the defense was ready to show how stephen scharf, far