Fifty-five years ago today, the state came to rest in the Sam Sheppard trial. One Plain Dealer story focused on testimony by Susan Hayes, a 24-year old medical technician who said she had an ...

Sheppard attorney Gordon Friedman, who deposed Hayes in California earlier this year, told the court that Hayes, now in her 70s, said Sheppard visited her in March 1954, but at the end of the ...

For the defense, one of Sheppard’s attorneys argued that Susan’s testimony suggested no motive for the murder of Mrs. Sheppard: “He certainly didn’t have to kill her to get Susan Hayes.

Martha Luttrell, a talent agent who represented a notable array of directors, actors, writers and musicians, died on Dec. 9 in Calabasas, Calif. She was 80.

Sheppard did not testify at his second trial and, fortunately for him, neither did Susan Hayes, the attractive lab technician who appeared at Ihe first trial and suggested a motive by admitting ...

CLEVELAND (WJW)– It’s been 65 years since one of Ohio’s most infamous murders. Yet, the question remains: Who killed Marilyn Sheppard? The brutal slaying of Dr. Sam Sheppard’s wife ...