What Everybody Ought to Know About the Sam Sheppard Murder Case

This Unsolved Murder — the Subject of Controversy and Misinformation for more than 56 Years — has More Secrets to Reveal

Created by Sheppard and Reese family members, this website is the one and only source for information that has never been available to the public . . . until now. Thanks to the Internet, we can finally tell you about crucial pieces of evidence that were ignored by the coroner’s office and prosecution in their determination to convict Sam Sheppard. And we can now share behind-the-scene information that helps to explain this tragic miscarriage of justice.

Is this the man who murdered Marilyn Sheppard?

The above photograph was discovered in a family photo album. It was taken during a sports car rally at Put-In-Bay, Ohio, in June 1954 — just weeks before Marilyn was murdered. The man in the photo has been identified as James Arlon Call, an Air Force major who went on a burglary and killing spree in Ohio and New York from May 1954 until apprehended in November 1954.  Evidence suggests that he murdered Marilyn Sheppard. Read more details here and in Tailspin, The Strange Case of Major Call, written by Bernard Conners.

In Biography of a Murder — An Online Mystery Magazine — you will discover:

1. Dr. Paul Leland Kirk’s original and complete affidavit — reporting on his 1955 investigation of the crime scene.
2. Important clues never allowed into court and hidden from the public . . . until now.
3. Behind-the-scenes revelations:  Why did Coroner Gerber jump to the conclusion that the murder weapon was a surgical instrument?
4. Excerpts from out-of-print publications, unpublished documents, personal journals and memoirs from both sides of the case.
5. Photographs and historical information from private family collections and the Sheppard Case Archives.
6. Exclusive interviews with family members, neighbors, law enforcement officials, criminal investigators, newspaper reporters and others associated with this case.

Marilyn, Chip (Sam Reese) and Dr. Sam Sheppard