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Samuel Holmes Sheppard ( December 29, 1923 – April 6, 1970) was an American Osteopath. He was convicted of the 1954 murder of his pregnant [1] wife, Marilyn Reese Sheppard, but the conviction was eventually overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, which cited a "carnival atmosphere" at the trial.
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- Samuel Holmes Sheppard, December 29, 1923, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
- Life imprisonment (overturned)
- April 6, 1970 (aged 46), Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Apr 7, 1970 · COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 6— Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard, who was convicted in a controversial trial of the slaying of his first wife and then acquitted after nearly 10 years in prison, died here...
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Jul 5, 2011 · Marilyn Sheppard was murdered in her house in suburban Cleveland on July 3, 1954. She was four months pregnant at the time of her death. Her husband, Dr. Sam Sheppard, said he was asleep on a...
Feb 17, 2021 · “The wife of handsome, thirty year old neurosurgeon, Sam Sheppard, was found brutally murdered in the bedroom of their home in Bay Village, Ohio on the shore of Lake Erie. Sam Sheppard denied any involvement in the murder and described his own battle with the killer, which he described as bushy-haired.”
Sep 17, 2017 · Six months after wrestling in Akron, Sheppard was found dead at age 46 in his Columbus home April 6, 1970. The Franklin County coroner ruled the cause of death as liver failure. One of medicine’s most notorious doctors was gone.
Jun 8, 2019 · That summer the attention of the entire nation was riveted to a similar murder case in Cleveland when Dr. Sam Sheppard was on trial for the murder of his wife. Afterward it was commonly assumed in Ohio Bar circles that Sheppard was convicted because Sternbaum was not.
Sam Sheppard, handcuffed, was driven to the house in a police car. He wept when he saw is son’s teddy bear on a bureau. The jury’s visit to the house had been disclosed to the media ahead of time, consequently hundreds of person awaited them outside the roped off property.
