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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.
Jan 30, 2019 · In the early hours of July 4, 1954, the wife of a respected neurosurgeon was bludgeoned to death. The first person to find her body was her husband, Dr. Sam Sheppard, whose spotty alibi quickly made him the prime suspect in her murder. A media blitz and public witch-hunt turned Sheppard into a grisly pariah.
The trial went until mid-December. On December 21, 1954, the jury convicted Sheppard. Sheppard received a sentence of life in prison. Shortly after the conviction, his mother committed suicide, his father died of a bleeding ulcer, and Marilyn's father committed suicide in 1963.
Apr 6, 2017 · On December 21, 1954, a jury convicted Sheppard of second-degree murder, and he got sent away for life. Two weeks later, his mother shot herself to death. Eleven days after that, Sheppard’s father died from stomach cancer.
- Mike Mcpadden
Feb 5, 1997 · Team of experts assembled by Dr Sam Sheppard's son presents new DNA evidence that strongly suggests Sheppard did not kill wife, Marilyn, in 1954; Sheppard spent 10 years in prison, was...
Oct 1, 2001 · Author James Neff is an expert on the case of Marilyn Sheppard, who was brutally murdered in her home in the summer of 1954 while her young son slept in the next room. Police quickly honed in on her husband, Dr. Sam Shepard, as the prime suspect and he was ultimately convicted.
Nov 16, 2016 · Samuel H. Sheppard clenches his pipe in his teeth during a recess of his murder retrial in Cleveland, Ohio on Oct. 25, 1966. Sheppard stands charged with second-degree murder in the 1954 slaying of his first wife, Marilyn.
