In January 2000, Sam Reese Sheppard, the doctor's son, will bring a wrongful-imprisonment suit against the State of Ohio in an effort to prove the innocence of his father, who died in 1970.

From his jail cell Dr. Samuel Sheppard sent out a statement this week ... despite her frigidity and his infidelity—and for their son “Chip,” 7. “I didn’t do it,” he insisted.