April 17, 2024
Lot of 19 Vintage B&W PHOTOS Dr. Sheppard MURDER TRIAL
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Lot of 19 Vintage Photos from the Famous Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Trial of 1954 and his second murder trial of 1966 when he had F. Lee Bailey defend him. Samuel Holmes Sheppard, D.O. ( 1923 - April 6 , 1970 ) was an American osteopathic physician [1] involved in a famous and controversial murder trial when he was convicted of the murder of his pregnant wife, Marilyn Sheppard. Sheppard served almost a decade in the Ohio Penitentiary before his 1954 conviction was overturned and declared a miscarriage of justice . In 1966, he was acquitted in a new trial.In 2000, Sheppard's son Sam Reese Sheppard, who had been seven years old at the time of his mother's murder, sued the State of Ohio for his father's alleged wrongful imprisonment. After a 10-week-long trial, a civil jury unanimously ruled against him. Sheppard was briefly a professional wrestler , going by the ring name The Killer , and teaming with partner George Strickland in matches across the United States . In Mick Foley 's book, Foley recounts Jim Cornette 's telling him about Sheppard inventing the mandible claw , a submission hold Foley later made famous F. Lee Bailey , Sheppard's attorney during his 1966 retrial, insisted in his testimony in the 2000 civil lawsuit that Eberling could not have been the killer. Instead, Bailey suggested that Esther Houk, wife of Bay Village
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