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 ...

THE WRONG MAN: James Neff, Random House, 386 pages, $25.95. A Seattle investigative reporter does a thorough re-examination of the infamous Dr. Sam Sheppard murder case from the 1950s -- inspiration ...

It was shaping up to be another great mystery in the never-ending Marilyn Sheppard murder case. A few weeks ago, lawyers preparing Sam Reese Sheppard’s appeal came to a jolting discovery: Key exhibits ...

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 ...

I just read a fascinating thesis examining the media circus that followed the 1954 arrest and prosecution of Dr. Sam Sheppard for his pregnant wife's murder, a mess that ultimately wound up at the U.S ...