Word: sheppard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From his jail cell Dr. Samuel Sheppard sent out a statement this week castigating the jury that convicted him of killing his pregnant wife, Marilyn. His trial, one of the most perplexing in recent years, took 43 days, and the transcript ran to 9,534 pages, totaling more than 2,000,000 words. The surprise was that any twelve people could come to agree on a verdict...
...compromise was possible between Sheppard's defense and the state's version of the crime. The prosecution contended that he beat Marilyn to death deliberately because he loved another woman and then faked evidence of a burglary to escape punishment. Sheppard blamed a "bushy-haired intruder" who overpowered...
...after 39 hours and 23 minutes of deliberation, they rejected both Sheppard's story ("fantastic") and the prosecution's picture of a deliberate murder. Sam Sheppard did not plan to kill his wife, they decided, but, once he began to beat her, he continued purposefully and maliciously until she was dead. The verdict: murder in the second degree. The penalty: life imprisonment, with parole possible in ten years. The handsome young osteopath rose stiffly in court for sentencing. Leaving, handcuffed, he glared angrily at the jury...
...GLADYS S. SHEPPARD San Diego...
Stories that once would have been buried among the want ads (e.g., Marilyn Monroe's divorce and the Sheppard trial) are now played with headlines and pictures on Page One. While trying to woo away readers who find the Times's heavy news diet indigestible, the Trib is also trying to skim off the upper readers of the tabloid News and Mirror. Three months ago, for the first time in its history, the Trib launched a prize contest, a $25,000 competition called Tangle Towns. It picked up 72,000 readers, jacking up the Trib's circulation...