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Sam and Marilyn Sheppard
Host a dinner for the Aherns. -
Marilyn Sheppard murder
Sometime between 3:00 and 4:45 a.m, Marilyn Sheppard is brutally murdered in her bed. -
The Sheppard murder
makes frontpage headlines in all the Cleveland papers. Lines of cars drive by the Sheppard home on the shore of Lake Erie. Sheppard is interviewed again by police and examined by a neurologist. -
Marilyn Sheppard
Funeral services are conducted for Marilyn Sheppard. -
Sheppard trail
A grand jury returns a first-degree murder indictment against Sheppard and he is re-arrested. -
Dr. Richard Sheppard
Sam's Father dies of cancer -
Sam Sheppard death
At noon Dr. Sam Sheppard was hung for the murder of his wife Marilyn. He was dead at 12:04 p.m. then was burned and burried.