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[SAM SHEPPARD]

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[SAM SHEPPARD]
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>[SAM SHEPPARD] </span></b><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>(1924-1970). Suburban Cleveland physician convicted - then cleared - of the bludgeoning death of his wife Marilyn in 1954. The sensational “crime of the century” was the inspiration for <i>The Fugitive</i> television series. Partly printed DS, a bank check drawn on Central National Bank of Cleveland in the amount of $25, Nov 26,1945, payable to </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;text-transform: uppercase'>Marilyn Sheppard</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (1923-1954) and signed by her father, </span><b><span style='font-size: 9.0pt;font-family:Arial;text-transform:uppercase'>Thomas Reese</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'>, while the couple was in California where Sam was attending medical school. Boldly endorsed by Marilyn on verso. Stamp and punch cancellations away from signatures. Sam served 10 years in prison before the conviction was overturned on appeal in 1966. He spent his last years battling alcoholism and worked as a professional wrestler under the name “Killer Sheppard.” While the bodies of both Sheppard and his wife have been exhumed for contemporary DNA analysis, the case essentially remains unsolved to this day.</span></p>