Despite the optimistic ending to this supposedly true account, a 2000 Ohio civil trial concluded that Sam Sheppard did in fact ... After almost fifty years this case still inspires debate and ...

The chronology was excerpted with permission from Mockery of Justice: The True Story of the Sheppard Murder Case, by Cynthia L. Cooper and Sam Reese Sheppard (Penguin Books, 1997). NOVA Online ...

He has written five nonfiction books, including The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case and Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy vs. Jimmy Hoffa. His biography of Teamster president ...

The case became one of the most famous and controversial murder investigations in American criminal history. To the day he died, Sam Sheppard maintained his innocence. Professor Laurence Alison ...

January 18, 1955 Dr. Richard Allen Sheppard, Dr. Sam Sheppard's father, dies of a hemorrhaging gastric ulcer and suddenly worsened stomach cancer. January 22, 1955 Dr. Paul Leland Kirk ...