The False Confessors
January, 1958
On Independence day, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard, 31, was bludgeoned to death in a second-floor bedroom of her pleasant home in Bay Village, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. When the police arrived, her husband, Samuel A. Sheppard, an osteopathic surgeon, was in the living room, naked to the waist, one eye puffed shut, his neck, he believed, broken. He said he'd fallen asleep on the couch, was awakened when his wife screamed. He ran up the stairs and was knocked out by someone he never saw. "I was c...
