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 ...

Sam Sheppard. Dr. Sam Sheppard waits for a hearing on Aug.12, 1954. ... Investigators pointed to his affair with Susan Hayes, a former hospital employee, as motive for murder.

Reporters tried to pep it up by calling Dr. Sam “the Romeo of the rubbing table,” got their doctors mixed by describing his extramarital girl friend, Susan Hayes, as the “orthopedic wench ...