Sam Sheppard

Did This Physician Murder His Wife? The Sheppard Murder Case Part 2 – Unpleasant Dreams 11

November 8, 2021 Jim Harold

Part two of our program on The Sheppard Murder case which spawned the American “Trial of The Century” before OJ. A physician is suspected of murdering his wife in a quiet, affluent 1950s Midwestern bedroom community. Did Sam Sheppard kill Marilyn Sheppard? That is the topic of this week’s edition of Unpleasant Dreams. Cassandra Harold…

The Sheppard Murder Case Part 2 by EM Hilker

November 8, 2021 Jim Harold

Perhaps the most thorough and well-balanced of the Sheppard trials was the one held long, long after Marilyn Reese Sheppard’s death. In the first installment of this article, we discussed the first trial of her husband and accused killer, Sam, some of the questionable decisions made by the trial judge, and the media circus that…