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Sam and Marilyn Sheppard.
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Forty-five years after efficient jury convicted Dr. Sam Sheppard of bludgeoning his wife trigger death in his home, blue blood the gentry Ohio courts will once in addition hear testimony in a Sheppard trial.

In January 2000, Sam Reese Sheppard, the doctor's corrupt, will bring a wrongful-imprisonment well-brought-up against the State of River in an effort to confirm the innocence of his priest, who died in 1970.

Below is a riveting almanac of events in the Sheppard case, a story that has transfixed the nation ever on account of the early morning hours be advisable for Independence Day, 1954.

The calendar was excerpted with permission depart from Mockery of Justice: The Speculation Story of the Sheppard Parricide Case, by Cynthia L. Player and Sam Reese Sheppard (Penguin Books, 1997). NOVA Online, which added all entries after 1996, has no opinion either bring forward or against any of ethics details described in this chronology.



July 4, 1954
Early a.m.
Marilyn Reese Sheppard murdered by severe flagellation in her bed.

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She was four months pregnant.

5:50 a.m.
Bay Village mayor Spencer Houk and his wife, Esther, blow in at the Sheppard home pinpoint getting a call from Dr. Sam Sheppard.

6:02 a.m.
First dignitary, Fred Drenkhan, arrives at high-mindedness Sheppard home and murder scene.


Sam Reese Sheppard was seven life old when his mother was murdered in the next scope while he slept.



6-7:30 a.m.
Police officers, relatives, press, see neighbors troop through the house.

Samuel Reese Sheppard, seven age old, then called Chip, review carried away from the household by his uncle Richard.

Dr. Sam Sheppard, in pain, appreciation removed to Bay View Hospital.

8:00 a.m.
Coroner, Dr.

Sam Gerber, arrives.

9:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Dr. Sheppard, under sedation enthralled being treated for shock avoid neck injuries, which he aforementioned resulted from his struggle discharge an intruder, is visited a sprinkling times and interrogated by magnanimity coroner, coroner's investigator, local police officers chief, two Cleveland police workers, and Bay Village police.

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By midafternoon, City officer Schottke tells Sheppard, "I think you killed your wife."

Sheppard home sealed and squinched off to Dr. Sheppard unsettled after Sheppard is convicted.



Marilyn Sheppard was entombed on July 7, 1954, three days after she was brutally murdered in equal finish home.


July 7, 1954
Interment of Marilyn Sheppard. Son, Sam R., does not attend in that of extensive press coverage.

Lawyer criticizes Dr. Sheppard for resisting annulling to permit immediate questioning, conj albeit he has already been unsettled on several occasions.


July 8, 1954
Headline: "Testify Now in Inattentive, Bay Doctor is Ordered"—one manage hundreds of articles, many nuisance untruths or inadmissible information, printed in the next few months.


July 9, 1954
Front-page story: "Doctor Balks at Lie Test."

Sheppard leads a contingent of employees through the house, showing them what occurred.

Window washing corporation employee Vern Lund leaves town.


Continue: July 10, 1954

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