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b"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"