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The Sheppard case: a murder by the lake, two trials, and no answer

2026-11-09 · · Unsolved Crimes · 13 min read

On the evening of Saturday 3 July 1954, Marilyn Sheppard was at home in Bay Village, a quiet suburb on the shore of Lake Erie in the US state of Ohio, about 24 km west of downtown Cleveland.

She was 31 years old and 4 months pregnant. Her husband, Sam Sheppard, was 30. He was a doctor at a hospital run by his family.

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