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 ...

Sam Sheppard’s second trial for killing his wife was bound to be different from his first one twelve years ago. For one thing, Cleveland Judge Francis Tally reserved only a few seats for reporters as ...

CLEVELAND -- Seventy years ago this month, on July 4, 1954, a pregnant Marilyn Sheppard was viciously beaten to death as she slept in the Bay Village Lake Road home she shared with her husband, Dr.

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 ...

On July 4 at 5:50 a.m.—the exact time may be important—Mayor J. Spencer Houk of Bay Village, a suburb of Cleveland, was awakened by a phone call from his friend, Dr. Samuel Sheppard: “For God’s sake, ...

In some alternate universe — in a universe where his pregnant mother wasn’t bludgeoned to death in her own bed and his father wasn’t found guilty of the crime in a trial the Supreme Court scathingly ...