Richard Eberling's Consensus: The Case Of Marilyn Sheppard

In the morning of July 4th, 1954, the Sheppard’s lives changed forever. Marilyn Sheppard was found dead in her house in the suburbs of Bay Village, Ohio. The case has been talked about ever since the community of Bay Village awoke to a tragic death of one of the members of a very wealthy and of high prestige family. As mentioned earlier, Marilyn was found dead in her bedroom, her pajama top was pulled up, and her pajama bottoms were pulled down with multiple blows on her head and no signs of possible rape. The savagery of the crime led to Marilyn drown in her own blood, due to the 35 bludgeoning blows that the serial killer produced. Sam Sheppard; Marilyn’s husband was found not guilty ten years after being incarcerated and even though Richard Eberling was never identified as the author of the crime in court, there are many facts of this case that prove that Eberling’s obsession with Marilyn was the main motive …show more content…
In their article, “No Sheppard Consensus,” authors Terry H. Gilbert and Cynthia L. Cooper claim that “Eberling, under arrest, volunteered to Bay Village police that they might have found his blood at the Sheppard house.” The trail of blood found at the Sheppard home led from the second-floor murder room, down to the stairs to the basement, through the living room and out the porch door leading to the lake. Prosecutors first said that the blood dripping had come from the murder’s weapon; however, blood does not drip very long, it certainly did not come from an object, instead the blood trail seems to come from an open wound which must have been Eberling because he suggested that it might be his blood and “only the killer knew he was bleeding and had bled throughout the house” (Gilbert and