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Murder of Marilyn Sheppard
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===Aftermath=== Sheppard's brothers continued to support him after his conviction and hired attorney F. Lee Bailey to represent their brother. He uncovered that Dr. Gerber, during the inquest, had remarked "It's obvious that the doctor did it" to a police officer, and that Edward Blythin, the judge presiding over the trial, had told reporter Dorothy Kilgallen "He's guilty as hell". He appealed to the Supreme Court arguing that both these factors and Judge Blythin's failure to shield the jury from the biased media coverage prevented Sam from getting a fair trial. The Supreme Court approved Bailey's petition and ordered a new trial. At Sam's second trial in 1966, forensic scientist Paul L. Kirk testified that blood spatter at the crime scene showed that the killer was left-handed; Sam Sheppard was right-handed. He also testified that the killer would have been covered in blood and that the lack of damage to Marilyn's lips showed that she had indeed lost her teeth biting her attacker, supporting the defence's claims at the original trial, and that the presence of unidentified semen in Marilyn's body indicated the killer had raped her. The majority of domestic homicides do not involve rape. Most damningly, he told the court that forensic testing showed that a large amount of blood at the scene did not belong to Sam or Marilyn Sheppard. F. Lee Bailey cross-examined coroner Gerber and undermined his claims about the murder weapon by forcing him to admit he had never found one. Sam Sheppard was acquitted on November 16 and died in 1970. Posthumous DNA testing fully cleared him of the murder.
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