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Famous Trials: Sam Sheppard Trials (1954 & '66) ArticleFamous Trials: Sam Sheppard Trials (1954 & '66) Article
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University of Missouri
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9th - 10th
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Famous Trials: Sam Sheppard Trials (1954 & '66)

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On July 4, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard, the wife of a handsome thirty-year-old doctor, Sam Sheppard, was brutally murdered in the bedroom of their home in Bay Village, Ohio, on the shore of Lake Erie. Sam Sheppard denied any involvement in the murder and described his own battle with the killer he described as "bushy-haired." Did Sam do it? It's rare for a murder mystery to endure for over half a century. Not so with the Sam Sheppard case. Facing two different juries, twelve years apart, Sam Sheppard was found guilty by one jury, not guilty by the next.

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