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The husband’s story was that he had fallen asleep on the living-room coach and had awoken to hear Marilyn screaming. He had rushed upstairs and seen someone dressed in white near his wife’s bed. Then he was hit from behind. When he came to, he found his wife was dead. Great Crimes & Trials s1e10: Dr Samuel Sheppard, BBC 1994
F Lee Bailey took over the case in 1961 and immediately applied his flamboyant talents. ibid.
Ten pounds of hogwash in a five pound bag. F L Bailey, summary statement
I think that she cried or screamed my name once or twice, during which time I ran upstairs, thinking that she might be having a reaction similar to convulsions that she had had in the early days of her pregnancy. I charged into our room and saw a form with a light garment, I believe, at that time grappling with something or someone. During this short period I could hear loud moans or groaning sounds and noises. I was struck down. It seems like I was hit from behind somehow but had grappled this individual from in front or generally in front of me. I was apparently knocked out. The next thing I knew, I was gathering my senses while coming to a sitting position next to the bed, my feet toward the hallway ... I looked at my wife, I believe I took her pulse and felt that she was gone. I believe that I thereafter instinctively or subconsciously ran into my youngster’s room next door and somehow determined that he was all right; I am not sure how I determined this. After that, I thought that I heard a noise downstairs, seemingly in the front eastern portion of the house. Sam Sheppard court evidence
New DNA evidence taken from the exhumed body of Dr Sam Sheppard provides the most compelling piece of evidence that he was wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife in a trial that transfixed America more than four decades ago, and suggests strongly that the killer really was a ‘bushy-haired’ intruder, as Dr Sheppard claimed, a lawyer for the Sheppard family said today.
The murder, the O J Simpson trial of the 1950’s, entered popular culture by forming the basis for the television program The Fugitive and the movie of the same name.
Tissue samples taken from Dr Sheppard’s body, which was exhumed under a court order last fall, show ‘he is excluded as a donor’ of the blood found at the murder scene, Terry Gilbert, the lawyer, who represents Dr Sheppard’s son, Sam Reese Sheppard, said today. The New York Times online article 5th March 1998
January 22nd 1955: Paul Kirk arrived in the small town of Bay village near Cleveland Ohio … He was America’s most revered forensic scientist … The crime had taken place on July 4th the previous year … The convicted killer was her husband Sam [Sheppard]. She’d been beaten to death in her bedroom … The prosecution had revealed that Sam Sheppard had had an affair two years before … This was the story the jury chose to believe … He said he’d been woken from his deep sleep on the daybed by strange loud noises … The jury weren’t convinced … The crime scene was not properly secured … He [Kirk] was more and more certain that Marilyn had been struck by a man standing on her right holding the weapon in his left hand: Sam Sheppard was a right-handed man. Gabriel Weston: Catching History’s Criminals II: Traces of Guilt, BBC 2015
SHERMAN, BOBBY & HONEY murders: The Fifth Estate: The Mystery of the Sherman Murders TV - True Crime Recaps 2023 -
He was the fifteenth richest person in Canada. She was a top philanthropist. Barry and Honey Sherman lauded as pillars of the community. Now murdered in their home, found side by side, strangled, bound to a railing next to their indoor pool. But targeted by whom? He had a long list of business enemies. Or could it be murder most personal? And was it a hatred that simmered for years? The Fifth Estate: The Mystery of the Sherman Murders, CBC 2018
‘He was hated by Big Pharma. He was as big as it gets in Canada. And he was a major player in North America.’ ibid. investigator
Big Pharma kept coming after him. ibid.
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1985: In a charming coastal village the hot summer days are chilled by a brutal homicide [Ellen Sherman]. And a forensic enigma that leads police down a path of double lives, dangerous liaisons and a voyage of discovery. True Crime with Aphrodite Jones s6e1: A Murder and an Open Marriage, ID 2016
Ellen and her husband had an unconventional marriage. ibid.
After six months as a widower Ed inherits nearly a quarter million dollars from Ellen’s assets and life insurance policy. ibid.
Guilty of murdering his wife. He is sentenced to 50 years in prison. 2 years later he dies of a heart attack. ibid.
SHERMAN, BARRY & HONEY murders: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
When a Canadian billionaire couple is found hanging next to their indoor pool police are baffled. Only one clue was left behind in the case of Barry and Honey Sherman. Security cameras caught something strange on the night they died: a stranger walking up to the house. A person who has never been identified but is suspect number one to this day. True Crime Recaps: The Mysterious Murder of Barry & Honey Sherman, Youtube 8.40, 2023
Each had a man’s leather belt tied tightly round the neck. ibid.
He made his money in pharmaceuticals. ibid.
In 2001 he said, The branded drug companies hate us; why don’t they just hire someone to knock me off. ibid.
SHERMANTINE, WESLEY & LOREN HERZOG: Born to Kill? The Thriller Killers TV - Mail online -
Linden, California: They are searching for victims of the so-called Speed Freaks, a serial killer case with a body-count primed to break the most notorious of records. Born to Kill? The Thriller Killers, Channel 5 2013
Domestic violence was commonplace, with the children often on the receiving end of their mother’s violence. ibid.
Once again authorities would take a hard look at Shermantine, the only viable link between the two missing women. ibid.
Herzog identified his friend as a cold-blooded serial killer with multiple victims to his name. ibid.
Herzog committed suicide. ibid.
So what motivated this ruthless duo? ibid.
At least twenty victims – while Shermantine himself has claimed the true number could be significantly higher. ibid.
Convicted ‘speed freak killer’ Wesley Shermantine was briefly released from his cell on death row this week to lead police to the remains of numerous victims he murdered decades ago.
Escorted out of California’s San Quentin State Prison, Shermantine led investigators to four wells in the town of Linden where they recovered numerous bones and other items.
At his return last Sunday he typed up a letter, addressed to Bounty Hunter Leonard Padilla, sharing where they had gone. Mail online article 3rd September 2012, ‘Speed Freak Killer leaves death row cell to lead police to remains of victims he murdered decades ago’
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