Marilyn sheppard exhumation
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PROSECUTORS EXHUME BODY OF MARILYN SHEPPARD, FETUS
Prosecutors trying to show Dr. Sam Sheppard killed his wife 45 years ago exhumed the body of Marilyn Sheppard Tuesday morning along with the fetus she was carrying when she died.
After about one hour inside a two-story mausoleum in a suburban Cleveland cemetery, three police cars led a convoy of about one dozen cars, including a hearse bearing Sheppard’s body, from the cemetery to the coroner’s office.
Her death in 1954 and the charge against her husband created a nationwide sensation and helped inspire “The Fugitive” television series and movie.
Prosecutors trying to show that Sam Sheppard was the killer planned to examine the body to try to get a “clean DNA profile.”
The exhumation was done as part of the state’s effort to defend itself against a lawsuit by the couple’s son, Sam Reese Sheppard.
Sheppard contends his father was wrongfully imprison