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Date Information
1954
Box Number
10
Item Number
9
Photo Location
Outside of House
Description
View of the Sheppards' backyard ("upper lake frontage" in police reports) showing top of stairs to beach; camera facing west. In his testimony at the Coroner's Inquest, Sam said: “I lost sight of it [the figure he saw in Marilyn’s room] down the stairs and saw it again go down the stairs from the landing where the beach house is down to the beach. I ran down those stairs from the landing down to the beach and at that time I thought that I could see a form of a, as I think of it now--I thought--I can’t quite decide in my mind what brings me to this feeling, of a big man...”
Keywords
Sheppard home, stairs to beach, beach, Lake Erie
