Part 2: Thank you to Nic of the True Crime Garage Podcast for joining me to discuss one of Northeast Ohio's most infamous "unsolved" murder.

In the early morning hours of July 4, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard was bludgeoned to death in her bed. Her husband Sam, a prominent Bay Village doctor, maintained that Marilyn was murdered by a bushy-haired intruder. He stood trial and was convicted for his wife’s murder amidst a media storm.

The Academy Award-winning movie The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford, was loosely based on Sam Sheppard.

The media frenzy so tainted the case that the United States Supreme Court released him and ordered a retrial in the decision Sheppard v. Maxwell. At the 1966 retrial, Sheppard was acquitted. He died just a few years later.

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SOURCES:

https://famous-trials.com/sam-sheppard/2-sheppard

law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sheppard/sheppardchonology.html

https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/sheppard/#browse

https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/newspaper_coverage/

https://case.edu/ech/articles/s/sheppard-murder-case

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-sam-sheppard-murder-case-972179

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sheppard/sheppardreports.html

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sam-sheppard-dies

https://www.truecrimegarage.com

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