24 Facts About Samuel Sheppard

Samuel Sheppard was exonerated in 1966, having been convicted of the 1954 murder of his pregnant wife, Marilyn Reese Sheppard.

Samuel Sheppard met his future wife, Marilyn Reese, while in high school.

Samuel Sheppard enrolled at Hanover College in Indiana to study pre-osteopathic medical courses, then took supplementary courses at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Samuel Sheppard completed his internship and a residency in neurosurgery at Los Angeles County General Hospital.

Samuel Sheppard married Marilyn Reese on February 21,1945, in Hollywood, California.

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Samuel Sheppard ran upstairs where he saw a "white biped form" in the bedroom and then he was knocked unconscious.

The family dog was not heard barking to indicate an intruder, and their seven-year-old son, Sam Reese "Chip" Samuel Sheppard, was asleep in the adjacent bedroom throughout the incident.

Local media ran salacious front-page stories inflammatory to Samuel Sheppard which had no supporting facts or were later disproved.

Corrigan based his argument on the report made by neurosurgeon Charles Elkins who examined Samuel Sheppard and found he had suffered a cervical concussion, nerve injury, many absent or weak reflexes, and injury in the region of the second cervical vertebra in the back of the neck.

Defense further argued the crime scene was extremely bloody, yet the only blood evidence appearing on Samuel Sheppard was a bloodstain on his trousers.

Samuel Sheppard took the stand in his own defense, testifying that he had been sleeping downstairs on a daybed when he awoke to his wife's screams.

Samuel Sheppard ran back downstairs and chased what he described as a "bushy-haired intruder" or "form" down to the Lake Erie beach below his home, before being knocked out again.

On January 7,1955, shortly after his conviction, Samuel Sheppard was told that his mother, Ethel Samuel Sheppard, had died from a self-inflicted gunshot.

Samuel Sheppard was permitted to attend both funerals but was required to wear handcuffs.

In 1959, Samuel Sheppard voluntarily took part in cancer studies by the Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, allowing live cancer cells to be injected into his body.

When Coroner Samuel Gerber testified about a murder weapon which he described as a "surgical weapon", Bailey led Gerber to admit that they never found a murder weapon and had nothing to tie Sheppard to the murder.

Samuel Sheppard debuted in August 1969 at the age of 45 as "Killer" Sam Sheppard, wrestling Wild Bill Scholl.

Samuel Sheppard wrestled over 40 matches before his death in April 1970, including a number of tag team bouts with Strickland as his partner.

On May 10,1968, Samuel Sheppard was granted surgical privileges at the Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital, but "[his] skills as a surgeon had deteriorated, and much of the time he was impaired by alcohol".

Samuel Sheppard resigned from the hospital staff a few months later after wrongful death suits had been filed by the patients' families.

Samuel Sheppard was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens in Columbus, Ohio.

Samuel Sheppard's body remained buried until September 1997 when he was exhumed for DNA testing as part of the lawsuit brought by his son to clear his father's name.

Terry Gilbert, an attorney retained by the Samuel Sheppard family, told the media that "the fetus in this case had previously been autopsied", a fact that had never previously been disclosed.

Samuel Sheppard stated that he cut his finger while washing windows just prior to the murder and bled while on the premises.