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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CLEVELAND– Marilyn Sheppard was four months ...

In Hearst’s Los Angeles Herald & Express, the headlines at first called him DR. SAMUEL SHEPPARD. Then the name was shortened to DR. SHEPPARD. By last week it was simply DR. SAM or just SAM. He needed ...

CLEVELAND (AP) - A judge erred by allowing a jury to decide a wrongful imprisonment trial on behalf of the late Dr. Sam Sheppard, attorneys for his estate are arguing. All other wrongful imprisonment ...

Coroner Gerber questions Sam Sheppard at the Normandy Elementary School inquest. The inquest was held after some finger pointing headlines from local newspapers. Deputy Sheriff James Kilory fiddles ...

“What we say and do here will be heard in all the states of the Union,” cried white-haired Defense Attorney William J. Corrigan. Day after day, some 50 reporters crowded into a stuffy Cleveland ...

It was the kind of case hollywood can't get enough of. The way Dr. Sam Sheppard told the story, at about 4 a.m. on July 4, 1954, he heard his pregnant wife, Marilyn, yell "Sam!" from upstairs in their ...

CLEVELAND — A federal jury declined to award damages Friday to an Ohio Supreme Court justice in a libel suit against the New York Times and one of its reporters over an article about a lawsuit filed ...

WALTHAM, Mass.WALTHAM, Mass. — F. Lee Bailey, the celebrity attorney who defended O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but whose legal career halted when he was disbarred in ...

The jury returned the verdict many in the country clamored for: Guilty of murder. Crowds surrounding the courthouse cheered. Reporters, whose pre-trial coverage declared the defendant guilty, barely ...