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- The case of Dr. Sam Sheppard was so controversial from the outset that the federal court later ruled his initial trial a "mockery of justice."
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Sep 19, 1995 · Although Dr. Sam Sheppard's conviction for the infamous and brutal 1954 murder of his wife Marilyn was overturned in the 1960s, the real killer has never been identified. In Mockery of Justice, his son Sam Reese Sheppard and attorney Cynthia L. Cooper reinvestigate the crime.
- The Murder of Marilyn Sheppard
- Sam Sheppard’s Trial by Media
- “A Carnival Atmosphere”
- The Case Rages on
- Sheppard’s Acquittal
- A Clean Legacy For Sam Sheppard?
- The Fugitive
The neurosurgeon lived with his wife, Marilyn Reese Sheppard, and seven-year-old son, Sam Reese “Chip” Sheppard, on a fashionable lakefront property in Bay Village, Ohio. On the night in question, the Sheppards had hosted neighbors for a movie and the neurosurgeon shortly afterward fell asleep on a daybed downstairs. His wife saw the neighbors out,...
By the end of the first day of the investigation, rumors of Sheppard’s infidelity hit the press alongside details of his wife’s murder. Two weeks after Marilyn’s death, a front-page editorial in the Cleveland Pressdemanded a public inquest. Gerber responded to the demand and subpoenaed Sheppard and his family to attend an inquest held in a local hi...
The first day of the trial started with a press tour of Sheppard’s home to see the crime scene while Sheppard was hauled around in handcuffs. Back in the courtroom, the prosecution showed the jury a slideshow of grisly photographs of Marilyn’s autopsy. Sheppard was denied being excused from the court during this slideshow when he requested it. Then...
Two weeks after the verdict, Sheppard’s mother committed suicide, followed by the death of his father from a hemorrhaging ulcer just one week later. Sheppard was allowed to attend the funeral in handcuffs. For the next seven years, Sheppard fought his ruling from a maximum security prison near Columbus. Despite the toll his case had taken on the fa...
Bailey took Sheppard’s case to the Supreme court. He claimed that the doctor’s constitutional right to a fair trial had been violated. Sheppard got a retrial in front of Judge Karl Weinman who Bailey described as “the best thing that happened to Sam Sheppard.” While Weinman reviewed the entire trial record, a valuable piece of information fell into...
Sheppard’s son, Sam Jr., was determined to restorehis father’s reputation and find his mother’s real killer. He discovered that a mentally disturbed man named Richard Eberling who frequently washed his parent’s windows and was serving time for killing an elderly woman. Suspicious, Sam Jr. went to meet Eberling. Though he denied killing Marilyn, Ebe...
On Aug. 29, 1967, 78 million viewers tuned in to watch Dr. Richard Kimble of the hit TV series The Fugitivefinally confront his wife’s killer, the mysterious one-armed man. The 1967 series finale was one of the most watched television finales of all time and would later become the subject of a blockbuster Hollywood thriller starring Harrison Ford. ...
Judge Weinman tosses out Sheppard's conviction on constitutional grounds, calling his trial "a mockery of justice." Sheppard is released from prison on a $10,000 bond. Sam makes plans to marry Ariane Tebbenjohanns.
This volume reexamines the original evidence as well as new evidence indicating that the criminal justice authorities suppressed evidence, used fabricated evidence, and overlooked an important suspect when they secured the conviction of Sam Sheppard for the 1954 murder of his pregnant wife.
The chronology was excerpted with permission from Mockery of Justice: The True Story of the Sheppard Murder Case, by Cynthia L. Cooper and Sam Reese Sheppard (Penguin Books, 1997). NOVA Online,...
Bailey's petition for a writ of habeas corpus was granted on July 15, 1964, by a United States district court judge who called the 1954 trial a "mockery of justice" that shredded Sheppard's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process.
