Dr. Sam Gerber said this is one of the most puzzling cases he had ever come across. 30 year old, beautiful, wife of a doctor, Marilyn Sheppard was murdered in the family's Bay Village home on Lake Erie in the early morning hours of July 4th 1954. Sam, her husband, was quickly identified as the best and only suspect the police had. By the end of that year, GUILTY. But was the doctor really the one who did it? SOURCES: https://www.aacom.org/become-a-doctor/about-osteopathic-medicine/history-of-osteopathic-medicinehttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2613sheppard.htmlhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/mockery.htm#TOPhttps://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/sheppard_timeline/https://www.si.com/longform/true-crime/cleveland-1954-browns-indians-sam-sheppard-murder-trial/index.htmlhttps://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=coroner_docs_1954https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/sheppard_transcripts_1954/6/https://criminalia.es/wp-content/gallery/asesinos-s/Sam-Sheppard/Volume%2011%201954%20Trial%20Transcript_%20Defense%20Witnesses;%20Testimony%20of.pdfhttps://www.biography.com/crime-figure/sam-sheppardhttps://allthatsinteresting.com/sam-sheppardhttps://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/all_crime_scene_photos/index.7.htmlhttp://www.thevillagernewspaper.com/2020/07/04/the-dr-sam-sheppard-house-revisited/http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sheppard/evidence.htmlhttp://thesheppardexperience1954.org/https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2jf75qhttps://www.famous-trials.com/sam-sheppard/12-excerpts-from-the-trial-transcripts/22-gerbertestimonyhttps://historybyday.com/human-stories/did-sam-do-it-the-unsolved-sheppard-trials/--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ill-natured-podcast/support