The Somerset Celebration Committee is pleased to host Judge Luann Cooperrider on Saturday April 26, 2025 as she opens the file of the Sam Sheppard Case. Samuel Holmes “Sam”  Sheppard, D.O. (December 29, 1923 -April 6, 1970) was a Bay Village, Ohio neurosurgeon initially convicted for the 1954 murder of his wife, Marilyn Reese Sheppard. The case was highly controversial from the beginning, with extensive and prolonged nationwide media coverage. The U.S. Supreme Court determined that the “carnival atmosphere” surrounding Sheppard’s
first trial had made due process impossible; after ten years in prison he was acquitted at a second trial.

$30 per person.  Doors Open and Light Appetizers at 5:30.  Dinner and Presentation at 6:30.