The Killer's Trail
- Grade Level: Junior High (7-9)-Adult
- Subjects: Crime and criminals
- Produced By: WGBH
- Year: 1999
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Running Time: 60m
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This is fact: Marilyn Sheppard was murdered in 1954. The rest of the crime is a haunting question mark. The Sheppard case led to the infamous trial--and re-trial--of her husband, Dr. Sam Sheppard, and launched the legal career of lawyer F. Lee Bailey. But who was the killer? Dr. Sheppard's insistence that a mysterious stranger was the real murderer led to his eventual acquittal xx years after the murder and inspired the plot of The Fugitive. Now, nearly 50 years later, NOVA reopens America's most intriguing unsolved murder case.