But everybody asked what happened and everybody seemed to scratch their head when I said, I don't know.

It was the question that wouldn't go away. The question that haunts many people even now, if you hear this story, can you know what happened?

People would ask, can you put a random case of the lady on the cliff?

Her name was Wanda, the lady on the cliff.

I dream about Wanda every single night. And in several of those dreams I always thought and felt like Wanda was trying to tell me something.

Wanda Darling, she was 23, just married and on the honeymoon drive, Wanda and her new husband had turned off the highway near Homer, Alaska, to a remote cliff top,

overlooking a broad Alaskan bay, not a soul around, almost. At the very end of that dirt road etched into the bluff, they lived a mystery writer, an author named Ron Hess.

This is kind of the frontier, that's right. For Wanda, a frontier indeed, she was 4,000 miles from hometown Halie Villalabama, much further than she'd ever been before.

It was 1997, a summer day. Ron Hess was the first to hear.

He was shouting, he was very distraught.

Hess was having lunch with his wife when a stranger came running down the road to his house.

He stopped about right in here and said, help, my wife has fallen over the cliff.

Hess drove the stranger back down the dirt road and parked. On the way the man was so distraught, he vomited.

Together, the two men rushed to the edge of the cliff and looked over.

And then he got down on his hands and knees and said, it should have been me. It should have been me.

Larry Coons, then, then, and Alaska State Trooper responded to the 911 call.

He came in at 12.32 p.m. member of the dispatcher saying, lady fell off the cliff.

I said, what? Where?

Trooper Coons rushed to the bluff where he learned the stranger's name was Jay Darling.

He was very despondent. There was anguish on his face.

Darling told Coons he and Wanda had been married just four months.

We're on the belated honeymoon. Had stopped at the bluff on their way out of town.

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