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Cleveland State University

1957

Court of Last Resort

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57/07/20 Killer Or Liar? / Gerber Wants Lie Tests For Sam, Brothers, Cleveland News Jul 1957

57/07/20 Killer Or Liar? / Gerber Wants Lie Tests For Sam, Brothers, Cleveland News

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Reports that Coroner Gerber asked the County Commissioners for funds to go to Deland, Florida and question Donald Welder, the fugitive who confessed to Marilyn Sheppard's murder. Gerber also asked for permission to give lie detector tests to Sam's brothers and sisters-in-law. He also wants representatives from the County to be present if Sam is given a lie test in the Ohio Penitentiary.


57/07/20 No Special Favors, Cleveland Press Jul 1957

57/07/20 No Special Favors, Cleveland Press

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Cleveland Press editorial states that "If Sheppard gets a lie detector test every other prisoner in the Ohio Penitentiary who asks for it should get one too. The test, of course, should be by regular law enforcement officials familiar with the work. Any test by an outsider is decidedly out of place."


57/07/19 Pal Named In Confession Is Phantom, Police Find, Cleveland Plain Dealer Jul 1957

57/07/19 Pal Named In Confession Is Phantom, Police Find, Cleveland Plain Dealer

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Reports that Donald Wedler, the fugitive who confessed to Marilyn Sheppard's murder, said he stayed with Marine veteran Charlie Fremont while he was in Cleveland in July 1954. Police couldn't find Fremont and no records of the man were found by the Veterans Administration. The article also updates the status of the investigation by Gardner's Court of Last Resort.