Isn't the conventionsl wisdom now that Dr. Sam Sheppard was NOT GUILTY? It was a handyman who worked on the Sheppard properties who killed Mrs. Sheppard, and the handyman died five or six years ago. So Dr. Sheppard was an adulterer but not a murderer, right or wrong? I know that the Sheppard son has been trying to collect wrongful-conviction money from the OH taxpayers.
IMO Sheppard's explanation that a stranger came into his house knocked him out -- twice -- and beat his pregnant wife to death is utterly unbelievable.
Sheppard had a life after prison, including a two more wives, one of whom accused him of violence.
At the end of his life Sheppard was drinking a fifth of vodka daily. IMO he was already into alcoholism when he killed his wife probably in a drunken rage.
Alternatively, it is remotely possible that the handyman was hired by Sheppard to actually kill the wife but it is not possible -- IMO -- that the killer could only manage to knock out the man of the house but kill the woman.