CLEVELAND - A judge said he would hear motions next month in a bid to reopen the 43-year-old murder case that inspired The Fugitive TV series and film.
The case involves Sam Sheppard, a Cleveland osteopath convicted of second-degree murder in the 1954 killing of his pregnant wife Marilyn. He was acquitted in a new trial in 1966 and died at the age of 46 in 1970. His son, Mr Sam Reese Sheppard, is seeking a civil trial and a finding that his father was wrongfully convicted at the first trial - a move that would clear his father's name and open the way for him to collect damages from the state.