Editing Sam Sheppard (section)

==In popular culture==
===In literature===
* The 2010 novel ''Mr. Peanut'' by Adam Ross features Sam Sheppard as a New York City detective investigating a woman's death and recounting the details of his wife's murder.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ross |first1=Adam |title=Mr. Peanut |year=2010 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |isbn=978-0-307-27070-2 |oclc=437298703 |url=https://archive.org/details/mrpeanut00ross }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=New voices in literature: Adam Ross |first=Bob  |last=Minzesheimer |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2010-06-24-buzzplus24_ST_N.htm |newspaper=USA Today |date=June 23, 2010 |access-date=July 1, 2010}}</ref>
* [[Edward D. Hoch]] created his famous detective Dr. Sam Hawthorne after him.<ref>[Introduction, Diagnosis : Impossible. The Problems of Dr Sam Hawthrone]</ref>
* The novel ''[[Crooked River Burning]]'' by [[Mark Winegardner]] features the Sheppard murder trial and ends with an epilogue of Sheppard's wrestling days and death.<ref>{{cite book |last=Winegardner |first=Mark |title=Crooked river burning |url=https://archive.org/details/crookedriverburn00wine |url-access=registration |year=2001 |publisher=Harcourt |location=New York |isbn=978-0-15-100294-8 |oclc=44016390}}</ref>
* ''[[Helter Skelter (book)|Helter Skelter]]'' by [[Vincent Bugliosi]] with [[Curt Gentry]] several times compares the media fanaticism of the Manson Family murders trial to that of the Sheppard case.
* [[Max Allan Collins]]'s 2020 novel ''Do No Harm''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Collins |first1=Max Allan |title=Do No Harm |date=2020 |location=New York |isbn=9780765378293}}</ref> is a fictional account of a private investigator investigating the Sheppard case at the request of [[Eliot Ness]] and [[Erle Stanley Gardner]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Mystery/Thriller Book Review: Do No Harm by Max Allan Collins. Forge, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7829-3 |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7653-7829-3 |access-date=April 22, 2021 |work=Publishers Weekly |date=December 23, 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Hartlaub |first1=Joe |title=Review: Do No Harm: A Nathan Heller Thriller |url=https://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/do-no-harm-a-nathan-heller-thriller |website=Bookreporter |access-date=April 22, 2021 |date=May 1, 2020}}</ref>

===In film===
* The 1970 movie ''[[The Lawyer (film)|The Lawyer]]'' is a courtroom drama based on the Sheppard murder trial.
* The 1993 film ''[[The Fugitive (1993 film)|The Fugitive]]'' is inspired by the case.
* The 2021 [[Hallmark Movies & Mysteries]] movie ''Reunited and It Feels So Deadly'' features the Sheppard Murder trial in the Real Murders Club group.

===Television===
* The television series ''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]'' and the [[The Fugitive (1993 film)|1993 film of the same name]] have been cited as being loosely based on Sheppard's story. This claim has always been denied by their creators.<ref>{{cite book |title=Mockery of justice: the true story of the Sheppard murder case |last=Cooper |first=Cynthia L. |author2=Sam Reese Sheppard |year=1995 |publisher=UPNE |isbn=978-1-55553-241-3 |oclc=32391248 |pages=4, 329 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3mrv4KjInwEC|access-date=May 11, 2009}}</ref>
* The TV series ''[[American Justice]]'' produced an episode based on this case titled "The Sam Sheppard Story".
* An episode of the ''[[Cold Case (TV series)|Cold Case]]'' television series titled "[[List of Cold Case episodes#Season 2: 2004–2005|Schadenfreude]]" is based on this case.
* ''[[Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case]]'' (1975), starring [[George Peppard]], is a television movie about this case.
* The ''[[Law & Order]]'' television series episode "[[List of Law & Order episodes (season 10)|Justice]]" is based on Sam Reese Sheppard's mission to clear his father's name.
* ''My Father's Shadow: The Sam Sheppard Story'' (1998), starring [[Peter Strauss]], is a television movie about this case.
* The TV series ''[[The New Detectives]]'' aired an episode about the forensic testing of the evidence in this case, both at the time of Sheppard's indictment and during the later efforts to vindicate him.
* The TV series ''[[Notorious (2004 TV series)|Notorious]]'' produced an episode about this case titled "The Sam Sheppard Story".
* The ''[[Nova (American TV series)|Nova]]'' television series episode "NOVA: The Killer's Trail – The Story of Dr. Sam Sheppard" includes a reconstruction of the Sheppard house, examines previously ignored evidence, and offers the opinions of forensic experts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sheppard/sheppardbiblio.html|date=|access-date=7 June 2021|title=The Trial of Dr. Sam Sheppard: Bibliography and Links}}</ref>
* The educational television series ''Our Living Bill of Rights'', produced by Encyclopædia Britannica Films, covers the Sheppard trial in the episode "Free Press vs. Trial By Jury: The Sheppard Case" (also called "Free Press vs Fair Trial By Jury"). The program contains documentary film footage, interviews with Sheppard and Bailey and a dramatization of the activity in the Sheppard home at the time of the murder. The program may be viewed on this site: http://www.historicfilms.com/tapes/15618 (the opening and closing title sequences are omitted, and is entirely in black and white – the original contained some color footage).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historicfilms.com/tapes/15618|title=Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: F-3122|work=Historic Films}}</ref>
* The [[BBC Four]] documentary series ''Catching History's Criminals: The Forensics Story'' episode (S01E02; 2015) "Traces of Guilt" examined the case, with particular regard to [[blood residue|bloodstain evidence]] and [[bloodstain pattern analysis]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02l4px7|title=BBC Four - Catching History's Criminals: The Forensics Story, Traces of Guilt|website=BBC}}</ref>
* The [[Investigation Discovery]] series ''[[A Crime to Remember]]'' details the evidence and Sam Sheppard's story in the Season 3 episode "The Wrong Man", first aired December 15, 2015.