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Title: The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case by James Neff ISBN: 0-375-76105-5 Publisher: Random House Trade Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.15 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: excellent journalism, gripping style
Comment: James Neff took over 10 years to gather facts and to compose "The Wrong Man", and it's well worth your own time to read this book. His engaging style effortlessly incorporates important details into the narrative. We are transported back to 1954, back to the era of post-war prosperity and the rise of the suburbs.
The story of osteopathic doctor Sam Sheppard, who was convicted of his wife Marilyn's violent death and who served many years in prison before being released, re-tried and acquitted, is widely known. Neff's probing reveals that many people still hold misperceptions about the case.
In true Perry Mason style, Neff introduces us to the real perpetrator, and provides an in-depth look at his troubled life. Using scientific evidence as well as psychological insights, he leads us to his conclusion about how and why Marilyn Sheppard was murdered on that Fourth of July nearly half a century ago.
Neff's book is a first-rate true crime tale, highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Right Read
Comment: James Neff's The Wrong Man not only is a good read but a compelling one. Though the title (subtitled, "The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case")gives one the ending, the drama of the story keeps the reader going as well as any good mystery. Neff's investigative talent and what he uncovers helps build that drama. Neff connects the revelations of the passions built by media/political forces in Cleveland during this 1950s case to the McCarthy era mentality and to the growth of what was then considered the "safe" suburbs.(The book has been relatively ignored by the local Cleveland newspaper despite its massive previous coverage. But don't expect a whitewash of its main character. The content also has relevance to today's media frenzy in some of the highly emotional cases that become media spectacles and a warning that what seems to be might not be at all. Neff's detective work, obviously tenaciously done, has a Holmes-like quality. It's hard to put it aside once into the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Justice at Last
Comment: The Wrong Man is a gripping and provocative look at the sensational murder trial(s)of Sam Sheppard. While in high school in the 70's, I member first reading about the case in F. Lee Bailey's book 'The Defense Never Rests'. Neff's book takes you behind the headlines of this infamous case and moves forward from the day of the crime and through the various incarnations of the case in the state and federal courts. He looks in depth at the participants and suspects in one of the century's greatest 'unsolved murders.' This case is a clear example of a man and a family destroyed by politicians and the press. These folks refused to let the facts get in the way of a good story. Sheppard's life and reputation were lost because the case was tried in the newspapers and television, instead of the court room. Oddly enough, through three trials in a 'search for truth' justice was never served. It is ironic that Neff's objective review of the case as a journalist and a 'member of the press' may be the closest the Sheppard family ever gets to finding the truth and obtaining justice. This is not simply a regurgitation of the headlines but a probing anatomy of an infamous crime and what happens when a 'good story' over takes the facts, a community, and our system of justice. It also shows why our freedoms guaranteed by the constitution (including the freedom of the press) must be jealously guarded against all who would take them away. I could not put the book down once I started reading it and strongly recommend it to any one who enjoys the true crime genre or reading law related novels. Here, the facts are stranger (and more interesting) than any fiction one could invent.
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Title: Mockery of Justice: The True Story of the Sheppard Murder Case by Cynthia L. Cooper, Sam Reese Sheppard ISBN: 1555532411 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Dr. Sam Sheppard on Trial: The Prosecutors and the Marilyn Sheppard Murder by Jack P. DeSario, William D. Mason ISBN: 0873387708 Publisher: Kent State University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Tailspin: The Strange Case of Major Call by Bernard Conners ISBN: 0945167504 Publisher: British American Publishing Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand ISBN: 0449005615 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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