Marilyn Sheppard w/ Nic of TCG

Who Killed...?

Bill Huffman

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

3.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Part 2: Thank you to Nic of the True Crime Garage Podcast for joining me to discuss one of Northeast Ohio's most infamous "unsolved" murder. In the early morning hours of July 4, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard was bludgeoned to death in her bed. Her husband Sam, a prominent Bay Village doctor, maintained that Marilyn was murdered by a bushy-haired intruder. He stood trial and was convicted for his wife’s murder amidst a media storm. The Academy Award-winning movie The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford, was loosely based on Sam Sheppard. The media frenzy so tainted the case that the United States Supreme Court released him and ordered a retrial in the decision Sheppard v. Maxwell. At the 1966 retrial, Sheppard was acquitted. He died just a few years later. Follow me on X @billhuffman3. Support the show via Venmo. SOURCES: https://famous-trials.com/sam-sheppard/2-sheppard law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sheppard/sheppardchonology.html https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/sheppard/#browse https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/newspaper_coverage/ https://case.edu/ech/articles/s/sheppard-murder-case https://www.thoughtco.com/the-sam-sheppard-murder-case-972179 http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sheppard/sheppardreports.html https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sam-sheppard-dies https://www.truecrimegarage.com If you'd like to help support the show you can contribute via Venmo with my username @bill-huffman-3. Every contribution big or small helps keep these shows rolling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Slow Burn Media and Evergreen Podcast presents Who Killed, a podcast that provides a voice for the voiceless.
0:15.5	Growing impatient, the Cleveland Press runs an editorial urging police to take action against the prime suspect.
0:24.0	Four days later, a front-page editorial increases pressure on the police.
0:29.8	The following day, the press devotes most of its front page to the case.
0:35.4	An editorial addressed directly to the county coroner, Dr. Gerber, urges an immediate inquest.
0:42.3	The next day an inquest begins.
0:45.3	I jumped off the couch and ran upstairs.
0:49.3	I thought I saw a white form standing in our bedroom.
0:55.2	Then I think I was struck from behind and knocked out.
0:59.8	When I came to, I went over to where Marilyn was.
1:04.7	I felt she was gone.
1:07.7	I believe I then rushed into our son Chip's Room.
1:12.0	After seeing him, I came to the conclusion he was unharmed.
1:15.8	As I came out of Chip's Room, I thought I heard a noise downstairs.
1:20.3	I spotted a figure near the outside door,
1:24.1	and I chased it down the path toward the beach.
1:36.3	Growing impatient, the Cleveland Press runs an editorial urging police to take action against the prime suspect. Four days later, a front page editorial increases pressure on the police.
1:42.3	The following day, the press devotes most of its front page to the case.
1:48.4	An editorial address directly to the county coroner, Dr. Gerber, urges an immediate inquest.
1:55.7	The next day, an inquest begins.
1:58.3	Newspapers headline coroner Gerber's theory that the murder weapon was a surgical
2:02.7	instrument. This theory never proved, but widely publicized, is damaging to Dr. Shepard. Meanwhile,
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