reporter: yet, was stephen violent enough to kill his wife? an unlikely but powerful witness was about to testify against stephen scharf. i m here for my mother. reporter: his own son took the stand against him. now a businessman, jonathan scharf painted his father as an angry, violent man who terrorized his mother. did you see tt abuse? i did. reporter: jonathan scharf said he realized his father had likely killed his mother only after that arrest in 2008. this videotaped interview shows him recalling the dark past for the first time to police. she got coffee thrown at her by him. reporter: 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.
even so, she said, jody was determined to get away from her husband. she was going to have divorce papers served on stephen, and she was very afraid of him. yet was stephen violent enough to kill his wife? an unlikely but powerful witness was about to testify against stephen scharf. i hear from my mother. his own son took the stand against him. 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 videotaped interview shows him recalling the dark past for the first time to police. she got coffee thrown at her by him. now in court he had even more to tell about his childhood,
and she was very afraid of it. yet, was steven violent enough to kill his wife? an unlikely but powerful witness was about to testify against steven scharf. i m here for my mother. his own son took the stand against him. now a businessman, jonathan scharf painted his father as an angry, violent man who terrorized his mother. do 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 videotaped interview shows him recalling the dark past for the first time to police. she got 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.
and she was very afraid of it. reporter: yet was steven violent enough to kill his wife? and unlikely but powerful witness was about to testify against steven. i hear from my mother. his own son took the stand against him. now a businessman. he painted his father as an angry, violent man. who terrorized his mother. do you see that abuse? i did. reporter: he said he realized his father had likely killed his mother only after that arrest in 2008. this video taped interview shows him recalling the dark past for the first time to police. she got coffee thrown at her. reporter: now in court, he had even more to tell about his childhood. like the afternoon he sat kouring in the backseat of the car. watching his mother suffer.
get away from her husband. she was going to have divorce papers served on steven. and she was very afraid of him. yet was stephen violent enough to kill his wife? an unlikely but powerful witness was about to testify against stephen scharf. i m here for my mother. his own son took the stand against him. now a businessman, jonathan painted his father as an angry violent man who terrorized his mother. did you see that abuse? i did. jonathan said he realized his father had likely killed his mother only after that arrest in 2008. this videotaped interview shows him recalling the dark past for the first time to police. she got coffee thrown at her by him. now, in court, he had even more to tell about his childhood.