Marilyn Sheppard, July 4, 1954
In the early morning hours of July 4, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard was bludgeoned to death in her bed. Her husband Sam, a prominent Bay Village doctor, maintained that Marilyn was murdered by a bushy-haired intruder. He stood trial and was convicted for his...
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In the early morning hours of July 4, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard was bludgeoned to death in her bed. Her husband Sam, a prominent Bay Village doctor, maintained that Marilyn was murdered by a bushy-haired intruder. He stood trial and was convicted for his wife’s murder amidst a media storm.
Harrison Ford's character in The Fugitive is roughly based on Sam Sheppard.
The media frenzy so tainted the case that the United States Supreme Court released him and ordered a retrial in the decision Sheppard v. Maxwell. At the 1966 retrial, Sheppard was acquitted. He died just a few years later.
SOURCES:
https://famous-trials.com/sam-sheppard/2-sheppard
law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sheppard/sheppardchonology.html
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/sheppard/#browse
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland Press
Associated Press
NY Times
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/sheppard_timeline/
https://case.edu/ech/articles/s/sheppard-murder-case
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-sam-sheppard-murder-case-972179
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sheppard/sheppardreports.html
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sam-sheppard-dies
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