errenberg 3w4r50e6believed ta stunning confession. he ran to tell the other detectives, including lineham. but they had just spent hours grilling the man. we weren t getting that feeling, that a reinterview at that point would have done anything. the detectives still believed they could find solid evidence to implicate stephen scharf, but they didn t. we took it as far as we could go. it hadn t been the cause of death at that time was listed as undetermined. so officially it wasn t a homicide. in time the detectives moved on to other cases. stephen scharf moved on too. 14 years after his wife s death he remarried. tina scharf says he s been a loving, ideal husband. it was like we were two 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 s never forgotten about jody. but he might have been surprised to learn that someone else was thinking of her too after all
drawer in his kitchen with the hammer and he just forgot to put it back in the garage. he put 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 and 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. scharf, i m your local police department. ted errenberg was a local officer told to keep an eye on stephen scharf that night as detectives combed through his house. the officer says he began talking to stephen about what had 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 scharf said something that almost knocked him off his feet. i said i believe an accident occurred. and i said, was it an accident? and he put his head down and he said, no.