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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A half-century worth of files from Dr. Sam Sheppard’s celebrated murder case are about to be made public. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason decided to donate the case files and exhibits to ...

“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 ...

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 ...