Word: marilyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marilyn had a good life. They bought a tree-shaded house on Lake Erie for $31,500 and paid off the mortgage in 2½ years. He had a jeep, a Jaguar and a Lincoln Continental, shared an aluminum boat with Mayor Houk. Marilyn taught basketball to schoolgirls and taught Sunday school at the Methodist church. The busy, popular couple liked bowling, golf, fishing, water skiing and sports-car races. They had one son, Little Sam, or Chip, now nearing seven...
...July 3, after a picnic, they had neighbors in to dinner. Later Sheppard put a corduroy jacket over his T shirt and fell asleep on a studio couch. The others watched a TV movie, Strange Holiday. After midnight Marilyn began yawning, and the neighbors went home...
Suspect No. 1. At dawn on July 4 Marilyn's bedroom was red with blood. Her pajamas had been pulled open and her hands had been bruised...
Sheppard told a dazed, disconnected story. Asleep on the couch, he had heard or sensed a cry from Marilyn. He ran upstairs to the bedroom and was "clobbered" by a blow on the head from behind. He recovered, chased a man, whom he described as burly and bushy-haired, to the lake. "It was like catching up with a steamroller," he said later. He said that he was knocked out again, revived and staggered indoors to telephone...
...left no fingerprints. Chip was not awakened and Koko, the Irish setter, was not heard to bark.* A police time-motion study calculated that Sheppard could have run upstairs in six seconds, and it would have required 40 seconds to strike the 27 blows that had been inflicted on Marilyn's skull. Moreover. Cleveland detectives figured that Marilyn died between 3:10 and 4 a.m. Sheppard phoned to Houk some two hours later. In the meantime, tests disclosed, a trail of blood leading from the bedroom to a basement sink had been wiped away...