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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\u2019s murder amidst a media storm.\nHarrison Ford's character in The Fugitive is roughly based on Sam Sheppard.\nThe 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.\nSOURCES:\nhttps://famous-trials.com/sam-sheppard/2-sheppard\nhttps://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/newspaper_coverage/\nlaw2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sheppard/sheppardchonology.html\nhttps://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/sheppard/#browse\nCleveland Plain Dealer\nCleveland Press\nAssociated Press\nNY Times\nhttps://case.edu/ech/articles/s/sheppard-murder-case\nhttps://www.thoughtco.com/the-sam-sheppard-murder-case-972179\nhttp://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sheppard/sheppardreports.html\nhttps://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sam-sheppard-dies\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices