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On 4 July 1954, Marilyn Reese Sheppard was found murdered in her home. Her husband, Sam, said that a bushy-haired intruder had killed his wife. Sheppard maintained his innocence despite questioning by officials. He was convicted of 2nd-degree murder on 21 December 1954 and sentenced to life in prison, where he continued efforts to secure his release. Ten years later, Sheppard's new attorney, F. Lee Bailey, charged Judge Blythin with improper conduct in Federal court. Although Bailey won his client's release, the decision was overturned on appeal, and he went to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1966 the high court supported the original ruling, citing Blythin's failure to protect Sheppard from the inherently prejudicial publicity that had saturated the country. The State of Ohio, which had the option to retry Sheppard, did so in the fall of 1966, but this time he was found not guilty. Sheppard died of liver failure on April 6, 1970.

This book is about his 12 year fight to prove his innocence for the murder of his wife in 1954 and is signed Dr. Sam. Dr. Sheppard has since passed away and was played in different movies including "The Fugitive" where he was played by Harisson Ford.