Samuel Holmes Sheppard (December 29, 1923 – April 6, 1970) was an American osteopath. He was convicted of the 1954 murder of his pregnant [1] wife, Marilyn Reese Sheppard, but the conviction was eventually overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, which cited a "carnival atmosphere" at the trial. Sheppard was acquitted at a retrial in 1966. [2]

2019年1月30日 · On July 4, 1954, the wife of Dr. Sam Sheppard was murdered and he was sentenced to life. He was acquitted by the Supreme Court in 1966. He was retried in 1966 and even a United States federal judge ruled his initial case "a mockery of justice."

2014年4月2日 · Sam Sheppard was an American physician at the center of one of the most sensationalized court cases in modern American history. (1923-1970) Who Was Sam Sheppard? In 1954, Sam Sheppard’s...

Dr. Sam Sheppard spent ten years in prison before the state of Ohio granted his appeal and awarded him a new trial. The murder conviction was overturned on June 6, 1966 due to a lack of evidence. Dr. Sam Sheppard was a free man from that …

2017年4月6日 · Roughly six months after his pro-wrestling debut, Sam Sheppard drank himself to death. To date, the murder of Marilyn Reese Sheppard remains unsolved. Watch Investigation Discovery’s A Crime to Remember “The Wrong Man” episode to learn more about the Sam Sheppard case.

In January 2000, Sam Reese Sheppard, the doctor's son, will bring a wrongful-imprisonment suit against the State of Ohio in an effort to prove the innocence of his father, who died in 1970.

2009年11月13日 · On April 6, 1970, Sam Sheppard, a doctor convicted of murdering his pregnant wife in a trial that caused a media frenzy in the 1950s, dies of liver failure.

A new book by Jack DeSario and William Mason, Dr. Sam Sheppard on Trial, primarily focused on the wrongful imprisonment suit, argues that the 1954 jury got it right: Sam Sheppard murdered his wife Marilyn.

Sam Sheppard served 10 years in the Ohio Penitentiary for her murder, only to be freed by a landmark Supreme Court ruling. And, 35 years after the murder, young Sam Sheppard began a crusade to clear his father's name and bring to justice the man he believed killed his mother.

July 30, 1954: Front-page editorial in morning edition of Cleveland Press asks, “Why Isn’t Sam Sheppard in Jail?” At 10:00pm, Sam is arrested and charged with murder in the first degree. August 16, 1954: Sam is released on $50,000 bail. Grand Jury meets to consider indictment.