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 ...

On July 4 at 5:50 a.m.—the exact time may be important—Mayor J. Spencer Houk of Bay Village, a suburb of Cleveland, was awakened by a phone call from his friend, Dr. Samuel Sheppard: “For God’s sake, ...

Cleveland, 1954. The city was the sixth-largest in the nation, the Indians had been swept by the New York Giants in the World Series, and Cleveland's post-war residents were trying to build the good ...

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 ...

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 ...

The famed lawyer whose cases ranged from the Boston Strangler and O.J. Simpson to Dr. Sam Sheppard has died. F. Lee Bailey was 87. Citing Mr. Bailey’s oldest son, Bendrix Lee Bailey, TMZ reported ...