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 ...
On this day, Dec. 21, in 1954, Dr. Sam Sheppard was convicted of the murder of his pregnant wife, a decision that was later overturned and said to have inspired a television series and movie. US ...
In Hearst’s Los Angeles Herald & Express, the headlines at first called him DR. SAMUEL SHEPPARD. Then the name was shortened to DR. SHEPPARD. By last week it was simply DR. SAM or just SAM. He needed ...
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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