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 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 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, and my dad just hitting her with the bottom of his fist.
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 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 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, and my dad just hitting her with the bottom of his fist. and i was begging him to stop doing it.
papers served on stephen, and she was very afraid of it. 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 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 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.
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 that 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. my mom was driving and my dad was hitting her with the bottom
she was very afraid of it. 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 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. 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.