Mockery of Justice: The True Story of the Sam Sheppard Murder Case

by Cynthia L. Cooper, Sam Reese Sheppard

Recounts the case of Dr. Sam Sheppard, wrongly convicted in 1954 of murdering his wife--the story that inspired the TV series The Fugitive--and includes a new chapter, not in previous editions, that names the latest suspect. Original.

Genres: True Crime, Nonfiction, Crime

496 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[J. Kahele · Rating 5 out of 5]

On July 4, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard was found bludgeoned to death. Her husband Sam, claimed to have been sleeping on the daybed downstairs at the time of the murder. He claimed that his wifes scream awoke him and when he ran upstairs he was knocked out, when he awoke, he found the man still downstairs and chased him out of the home and down to the beach. He struggled again to detain the man and was hit unconscious. He awoke half of his body submerged in the lake.

He was tried and convicted for the murder of his wife. But did he do it? Was he wrongfully convicted? After a retrial he was acquitted of all charges. Most claim it was the outrages of the people, the slander of the media that convicted Sam Sheppard.

The Mockery of Justice is a book written through the third person view of The Sheppards son, Sam Reese Sheppard. The book takes us through the events and details of what really happened before and after the convictions and what Sam Reese Sheppard endured through the trying times and what he is still going through. Great Book!

[Dina · Rating 5 out of 5]

There was no one-armed man! The real story about the poor "Fugitive".

[Lewis Weinstein · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you don't believe prosecutors convict innocent people, read this book. It made me furious! And led to a novel I wrote with a similar theme ...