Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After questioning Shea, Miami Detective Philip Thibedeau could find no connection between him and the murder. Even so, Detective Patrick Gallagher soon obtained the airman's oral confession...
...time signed it. Though Crime Lab Supervisor Edward D. Whittaker testified that Shea's shirt was splattered with his own B-type blood and there was only one spot of Mary Meslener's O-type, the confession persuaded a jury to find Shea guilty of first-degree murder and to recommend mercy...
...least one hour before Mary Meslener left the airport-hardly time enough, as claimed in his confession, for Shea to hitchhike to Miami, visit several downtown bars, ride a bus to the airport, try to steal a car, get caught in the act by Mary Meslener and then murder her. Not only was Shea later unable to point out the parking lot where the original assault took place, but a palm print found in the murder car belonged to neither Shea nor the victim nor her husband. At Shea's first trial, the state did not disclose this fact...
...decade ago, the Supreme Court had declined to review Sheppard's life sentence for the murder of his wife. Then, in 1964, he was released from jail by U.S. District Judge Carl Weinman, who did not rule on the doctor's guilt or innocence but ordered a new trial. The press, he said, had kept the defense from getting an unbiased verdict...
...circus publicity" of the trial. The reason for such banner headlines as WHY ISN'T SAM SHEPPARD IN JAIL?; QUIT STALLING, BRING HIM IN; Bailey contended, was that Cleveland Press Editor Louis Seltzer (who recently retired) thought that only his paper could prevent a cover-up of the murder. Once the trial began, Bailey argued, Seltzer pressed for a conviction so that his paper would be protected against libel suits...