"A Doctor in the House: The Murder of Marilyn Sheppard, 1954" (28March2024) TGAWM

"They Got Away With Murders"
In the early hours of the morning of 4th July 1954, the Mayor of Bay Village, Ohio, received a call from Dr Sam Sheppard, saying his wife had been murdered. The mayor and his wife rushed to Dr Sheppard's home on Westlake Road, and there found Sam Sheppard with a black eye - and Sam's wife, Marilyn, dead. She had been bludgeoned to death in a ferocious attack. When the police arrived they were puzzled: there was no sign of a break-in and items of obvious value had not been taken... They soon began to suspect that all was not as it seemed...