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 ...

It's absolutely mind-boggling to imagine the splash the Marilyn Sheppard murder case would have made in the media pool today -- in an era of Court TV, CNN and those annoying news crawls snaking across ...

“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 ...

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 ...

On this day, Dec. 21, in 1954, Dr. Sam Sheppard was convicted of the murder of his pregnant wife, a decision that was later overturned and said to have inspired a television series and movie. US ...