Sam Sheppard Case | Who did this to Marilyn | Modern Mysteries

Описание: On July fourth 1954, the small town of bay village awoke to reports of the murder of Marilyn Sheppard. Bay Village is a suburb of Cleveland, located on Lake Erie.

Marilyn’s husband, Sam, reported her death to his friend Spencer Houk, who was mayor of bay village at the time. Police arrived moments after Houk and his wife arrived at the Sheppard’s house.

Due to the media scrutiny, the case grew too large for the police in Bay village and Cleveland police, as well as Cuyahoga county officials, took over. But what made the case grow and grow the most was the intense media scrutiny.

Headlines in the major daily papers created an air of inevitability around the guilt of Sheppard.

And eventually, when the district attorney took too long to file charges, they began to call for Sheppard’s arrest explicitly.

This was without a doubt one of the most shameful displays of media manipulation I have ever heard about. Speculation was reported as fact, without corroboration. The leaks reporters got from police went straight to press. Through those leaks and all the speculation, Sam Sheppard was convicted in the public eye long before he had his day in court

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Cleveland Memory with photos from the Cleveland Press Collection and the William Ashbolt Collection
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