Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.

Terry Gilbert an attorney retained by the Sheppard family told the media that "the fetus in this case had previously been autopsied" a fact that had never previously been disclosed. Though Eberling denied any criminal involvement in the Sheppard case a fellow convict reported that Eberling confessed to the crime. The case was reviewed by the U.

The controversial murder trial drew widespread nationwide attention from the media creating what the Supreme Court later described as a "carnival atmosphere". After a ten-week trial a civil jury returned a unanimous verdict that Samuel Sheppard had failed to prove his father had been wrongfully imprisoned. In 1966 he was acquitted in a new trial.