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The Sam Sheppard Case Timeline: 1954-2002
February 21, 1945: Sam Sheppard and Marilyn Reese are married.
1947: Samuel (Chip) Reese Sheppard is born.
1951: Sam joins the staff of Bay View Hospital, which was founded by the Sheppard family.
July 3, 1954: Sam and Marilyn host a dinner party for their neighbors Don and Nancy Ahern. The Aherns leave the Sheppard home around midnight with Sam asleep on the daybed.
July 4, 1954
3:00-5:00am: 31-year-old Marilyn Sheppard is murdered. She was bludgeoned 27 times with an unknown weapon. Marilyn was four months pregnant.
5:50am: Mayor J. Spencer Houk and his wife Esther arrive at Sheppard home after receiving a call from Sam: “For God’s sake, Spen, get over here quick. I think they’ve killed Marilyn.”
6:02am: Bay Village Patrolman Fred Drenkhan arrives at the murder scene, the first law officer to see the body, blood spots throughout the house, and evidence of an apparent robbery. Sam disjointedly reports to Drenkhan he heard Marilyn scream, ran upstairs, fought on the stairs, and woke up in the lake.
6:00-7:30am: American neurosurgeon (1923–1970) For other people with similar names, see Sam Shepard (disambiguation). Samuel Holmes Sheppard ((1923-12-29)December 29, 1923 – (1970-04-06)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. Sheppard was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the youngest of three sons of Richard Allen Sheppard, D.O. He attended Cleveland Heights High School where he was an excellent student and was active in American football, basketball, and track; he was class president for three years. Sheppard met his future wife, Marilyn Reese, while in high school. Although several small Ohio colleges offered him athletic scholarships, Sheppard chose to follow the lead of his father and older brothers and pursued a career in osteopathic medicine. He enrolled at Hanover College in Indi The SHEPPARD MURDER CASE (1954-66) assumed legal importance when Dr. Samuel Sheppard's 1954 conviction for the murder of his wife was set aside by the U.S. Supreme Court on the grounds that the defendant was not sufficiently insulated from the excessive publicity surrounding the case, and thus was denied a fair trial in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. This decision helped define what protections from adverse media coverage were necessary under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. On 4 July 1954, Marilyn Reese Sheppard was found murdered in her BAY VILLAGE home. Her husband, Sam, said that a bushy-haired intruder had killed his wife. Sheppard maintained his innocence despite questioning by officials, but Cleveland newspapers, particularly the CLEVELAND PRESS and its editor, LOUIS SELTZER, demanded his arrest, alleging that the Sheppard family was conspiring to shield Sam from the authorities. The publicity intensified with Sheppard's arrest of 30 July and continued through his 9-week jury trial, presided over by Judge EDWARD BLYTHIN. The prosec
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SHEPPARD MURDER CASE
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