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Other Evidence 09. Green Bag
Green cloth bag in which Sam's watch and other items were found. There was no blood found on the bag, only on the watch inside the bag (from Dr. Sam Sheppard on Trial by Jack P. DeSario and Bill Mason, 2003, p. 308).
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Other Evidence 10. Sam in Neck Brace at Bay View Hospital
Sam was taken to Bay View Hospital (the hospital owned by his family) on the day of Marilyn's murder. His injuries were very controversial. Sam said he was knocked unconscious twice by the person who murdered Marilyn. Dr. Gervase C. Flick, Bay View Hospital physician, examined the x-rays taken of Sam after the murder. Flick testified in the 1954 trial that he saw a chip fracture on Sam's C-2 vertebra on the X-rays he saw on July 4. He ordered another set of x-rays on July 7 but could no longer see the fracture. Read Flick's full 1954 trial testimony here.
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Other Evidence 12. Marilyn's Watch
Marilyn's gold watch, found by detectives on the floor in the den behind Sam's desk. The watch and watchband were bloodied. Nancy Ahern, who dined at the Sheppard home with husband Don and their children on July 3, 1954, said in her police statement that she could "not specifically remember noticing her watch, wedding ring, or engagement ring that particular night, but I can seldom ever remember seeing her without them." When questioned about Marilyn's jewelry, Don Ahern said in his police statement, "I think she was wearing a watch." Mary Cowan, Medical Technologist at the Coroner's Office, performed blood-type testing on both Marilyn's and Sam's watches. According to her 1954 trial testimony and the Coroner's trace evidence report, the results were not conclusive.
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Other Evidence 13. Wounds on Marilyn's Left Hand, Autopsy Photo
In his 1954 trial testimony, assistant coroner Lester Adelson described Marilyn's left hand: "'There is almost a complete separation of the fingernail of the fourth left ring finger with the root of the nail exposed... there is a small bridge of skin which still holds the nail in place. That is called technically an evulsed wound or a wound where something had been torn away from its underlying attachments." In the 2000 trial, Terry Gilbert, attorney for the Sheppard Estate, referred to the booking records of Richard Eberling, Gilbert's favored suspect for Marilyn's murder, stating that the half-inch scar on Eberling's wrist could have come from Marilyn trying to defend herself against him. However, Cuyahoga County Coroner Elizabeth Balraj said that she felt the injury to Marilyn's left right finger was more consistent with blunt force trauma (from Dr. Sam Sheppard on Trial by Jack P. DeSario and Bill Mason, 2003, p. 156-157).
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Drawing 07: Map of Bay Village
Map of Bay Village showing the location of the Sheppard home and the homes of the Houks, Aherns, Sam Sheppard's father, Sam Sheppard's brother Richard, and Bay View Hospital.
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