On this day, Dec. 21, in 1954, Dr. Sam Sheppard was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, a decision that was later overturned and inspired a television series and movie. Marilyn Sheppard was killed ...
Did Cleveland newspapers so inflame Dr. Sam Sheppard’s jurors that he was wrongly convicted of bludgeoning his wife to death? No one has ever proved that the press actually swayed the jurors who found ...
On July 4 at 5:50 a.m.—the exact time may be important—Mayor J. Spencer Houk of Bay Village, a suburb of Cleveland, was awakened by a phone call from his friend, Dr. Samuel Sheppard: “For God’s sake, ...
It's absolutely mind-boggling to imagine the splash the Marilyn Sheppard murder case would have made in the media pool today -- in an era of Court TV, CNN and those annoying news crawls snaking across ...
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