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...Virginia, this is Santa Claus. He was not, as you may have feared, the bushy-haired intruder in the Sheppard home that July night, and his red clothes don't early have anything to do with those Red Chinese you worry about sometimes. Nor was he the one who forced Hemingway's plane down in the African jungles, disguised as some sort of silly bird...
...spoken of divorce, she said, but had never made her any promises. "I remember him saying he loved his wife very much." she testified, "although not so much as a wife." After 76 minutes, she left the stand. 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. He had her whenever he wanted...
...Marilyn's Dead." Sam's brother, Dr. Stephen Sheppard, was the first defense witness. He related that at a family party on July 2, two days before the murder, Sam and Marilyn Sheppard had talked about the baby they expected. As he spoke, Sam Sheppard, usually grave and composed, bowed his head and sobbed...
...waist up. That's all I recall. I touched him on the shoulders. He moved." Upstairs, he said, he found Marilyn dead on the bed. "She was mercilessly and terribly beaten about the head. She was unrecognizable, except in profile." When taken away to the family hospital. Sam Sheppard "was mumbling incoherently to himself." Once he said: "My God-Marilyn's dead!" Later, he blamed the murder on a burly, bush-haired intruder with whom he had struggled futilely...
Assistant County Prosecutor John J. Mahon, who has sent more people to the electric chair than any other prosecutor in Ohio, has tried to make his case with technical detail: drops of blood, grains of sand, eight strands of hair and other minutiae which demonstrated that Sam Sheppard could have committed the murder. The defense will call more than a score of witnesses in an effort to indicate that...