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 ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND -- Seventy years ago this month, on July 4, 1954, a pregnant Marilyn Sheppard was viciously beaten to death as she slept in the Bay Village Lake Road home she shared with her husband, Dr.

“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 ...