On this day, Dec. 21, in 1954, Dr. Sam Sheppard was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, a decision that was later overturned and inspired a television series and movie. Marilyn Sheppard was killed ...
“Mostly it’s that it’s that she’s an overenthusiastic fan." ...
Did Cleveland newspapers so inflame Dr. Sam Sheppard’s jurors that he was wrongly convicted of bludgeoning his wife to death? No one has ever proved that the press actually swayed the jurors who found ...