Editing Sam Sheppard (section)

===Family deaths===
On January 7, 1955, shortly after his conviction, the incarcerated Sheppard was told that his mother, Ethel Sheppard, had died from a self-inflicted gunshot.{{sfn|Tanay|2011|page=175}} Eleven days later, Sheppard's father, Richard Sheppard, died of a bleeding [[gastric ulcer]] and stomach cancer.{{sfn|Warnes|2004|page=219}} Sheppard was permitted to attend both funerals but was required to wear handcuffs.{{sfn|Perper|Cina|2010|page=38}}

On February 13, 1963, while F. Lee Bailey was pursuing the appeals process, Sheppard's former father-in-law, Thomas S. Reese, died by suicide in an [[East Cleveland, Ohio]], motel.{{sfn|Tanay|2011|page=175}}{{sfn|Warnes|2004|page=220}}<ref>{{cite news|title=Sheppard Tragedy Goes On and On|work=Beatrice Daily Sun|date=February 18, 1963|page=2|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/2145337/|access-date=October 15, 2015}}</ref> Reese's wife had died in 1929 when their daughter Marilyn was in grade school.