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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

I was afraid when I picked up James Neff's new book, "The Wrong Man," that this was going to be the "bible" of the 1954 Dr. Sam Sheppard murder case, which, despite still being a whodunit, ranks up ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - It is one of the most infamous crimes in modern history and the inspiration behind the TV series and movie, “The Fugitive.” Did Dr. Sam Sheppard murder his wife on July 4, ...

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 ...