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Sam Sheppard. Samuel Holmes Sheppard ( December 29, 1923 – April 6, 1970) was an American neurosurgeon. 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.
Jan 30, 2019 · AlchetronDr. Samuel Sheppard’s mugshot. 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.
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. A judge permitted Sam to attend both funerals, but he had to remain handcuffed.
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In December 1954, Sheppard was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. He served a decade behind bars before courtroom legend F. Lee Bailey convinced the Supreme Court...
Sam Sheppard served 10 years in the Ohio Penitentiary for her murder, only to be freed by a landmark Supreme Court ruling. And, 35 years after the murder, young Sam Sheppard began a crusade to clear his father's name and bring to justice the man he believed killed his mother.
And expert witnesses for the Sheppard family differed as to whether the blood type of the spot on the closet door could have been Sheppard's. Finally, a 2001 book on the case, James Neff's The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case, concluded that Eberling was the killer.
Apr 13, 2000 · Jury in Cleveland, Ohio, rejects Sam Reese Sheppard's effort to prove that his father, Dr Sam Sheppard, was innocent and had been wrongfully imprisoned for murder of his mother in 1954; decision...