The new prosecutor faces an old controversy -- An unlikely setting for murder -- Did Sam murder Marilyn? -- Putting together the pieces of the puzzle -- Final trial preparation : the emergence of the prosecutor's strategy -- Opening statements : setting the stage -- The Sheppard team presents its case -- Science and suspects: the plaintiff and efforts to raise reasonable doubt -- The prosecutors speak -- Dr. Sam Sheppard: portrait of a murderer? -- Closing arguments and a verdict : the end of a legal era.