Saturday, August 21, 1999
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Planned exhumation angers Sheppard
CLEVELAND — The son of Dr. Sam Sheppard is outraged that prosecutors will exhume his mother's remains and said the plan is only a means to delay a trial to clear his father's name.
“We don't understand why they're doing this. It's outrageous,” Sam Reese Sheppard, 52, said Friday after learning that Cuyahoga County Prosecutor William Mason ordered the exhumation.
Mr. Sheppard's father spent 10 years in prison after being convicted of killing his wife, Marilyn, in a sensational 1950s case that inspired The Fugitive television series. Dr. Sheppard was acquitted in a retrial in 1966.
Mr. Sheppard, who contends a window washer killed his mother, has filed a wrongful-imprisonment lawsuit to try to clear his father's name. The trial is to begin Oct. 18.
Mr. Mason said Friday his experts, which include an anthropologist, forensic dentist and DNA expert, needed to exhume Mrs. Sheppard's body to get new samples of her DNA. The remains will be exhumed from Knollwood Cemetery in suburban Mayfield Heights within the next several weeks.
Dying man was struck, not shot
A medical examination has found that a 39-year-old disabled man found dying in the parking lot of a Hartwell grocery had not been shot, as police first thought.
Michael Boumer, of Elmwood Place, was found Tuesday morning in a Kroger parking lot in the 8200 block of Vine Street. Cincinnati police at the time said he had suffered an apparent gunshot wound. Mr. Boumer died at noon Wednesday at University Hospital.
After examining the body, officials from the Hamilton County Coroner's Office said Friday Mr. Boumer did not have a gunshot wound. Instead, he suffered a blunt impact to his head. It is still not clear how Mr. Boumer received the injury.
Mr. Boumer, who grew up in Elmwood Place, had cerebral palsy. He was always seen riding his bicycle through the Carthage and Hartwell area. His bike was missing when his body was found.
Police continue to investigate Mr. Boumer's death.
New parking garage brings 700 new spaces
Hamilton County Commissioners announced Friday the opening of a new $7.5 million Alms & Doepke Parkhaus parking garage at 1123 Sycamore St.
The six-level garage will provide almost 700 new parking spaces and will be open to the public Sept. 1.
Monthly parking will be offered at $75.
Daily and special rates include: one hour or less for $2.50; one to two hours, $4; two to three hours, $5.50; maximum daily rate, $7; and an early bird special of $5.
Monday through Wednesday rates after 5 p.m. will be $3, while a $5 fee will be charged Thursday through Saturday after 5 p.m. There will be a $2.50 rate on Sundays.
Rare plants along lake can't be protected
TOLEDO, Ohio — Researchers have discovered dozens of new plant species, including some that are endangered, along Lake Erie, but there is little they can do to protect them.
The plants are rare examples of Ohio's natural heritage, says Greg Schneider, a botanist with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
“We've lost the vast majority of our natural plants,” he said Friday. Now all that is left are “pockets of these plants.”
During the past three years, Mr. Schneider produced the first comprehensive study of the lake's coastal plant population. The survey found 81 new plant species — including 11 endangered and 25 threatened species.
Unlike endangered animals, plants aren't protected in Ohio unless they are in a wetlands area, Mr. Schneider said. Builders are free to destroy unprotected plants if they stand in the way of lakeside homes and condominiums.
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