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Dr Sam Sheppard to Begin Life Prison Term in Cleveland
In a Cleveland ruling, Dr Sam Sheppard loses a final posttrial appeal for a new trial over the 1954 bludgeon murder of his pregnant wife Marilyn Sheppard. An appellate court rejected a criminology professor’s affidavit claiming a left handed killer. the court found the theory speculative. Dr Kirk’s private investigation and blood evidence were deemed not probative.
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Cleveland
Crimology
Marilyn Sheppard
Sheppard
Paul Kirk
University of California
Kirk
Bay Village
Julius Kovachy
Lee Skeel
Joy Seth Hurd
Dr. Kirk
California
Sam
Fred W. Garmone
Ohio Supreme Court