July 18, 1964 - Dr. Samuel Sheppard was married in Chicago today to the woman who won his love while he was serving a prison term for slaying his first wife.
The simple ceremony, in which he was married to Mrs. Ariane Tebbenjohanns, a divorcée from Düsseldorf, Germany, was performed in a suite at the Conrad Hilton Hotel by Nicholas Kure, a magistrate of the Circuit Court of Cook County.
The honeymoon may be brief. Dr. Sheppard, who is 40 years old, may have to go back to the Ohio penitentiary soon.
“I feel, in one way, I’m the luckiest man in the world,” the osteopathic physician said.
But he also said it “sometimes is difficult to accept reality while living under the shadow of rearrest and retrial.”
F. Lee Bailey of Boston, attorney for Dr. Sheppard, served as best man. The bride was attended by Mr. Bailey’s wife, Froma, and Mrs. Miriam Holmes. The latter’s husband, Pauli Holmes, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune who has written extensively about the Sheppard case, was the only newsman admitted to the ceremony.
Mrs. Sheppard said the couple planned to live in a rented home in Rocky River, Ohio.
Dr. Sheppard was freed by a Federal judge Thursday after serving almost nine years in prison for slaying his first wife, Marilyn. The judge ruled that he had been denied due process of law at his trial.
A hearing on a motion by the Ohio Attorney General’s office to stay the order that freed Dr. Sheppard will be held Wednesday in Cincinnati. Until then, at least, he will be at liberty on $10,000 bond.
Mrs. Tebbenjohanns became interested in the Sheppard case in 1959. She wrote to his family that she believed him innocent. Then she began writing to Dr. Sheppard.
They met in January 1963, while she was visiting in the U.S. She came to this country to stay a year ago.
Mrs. Tebbenjohanns was married formerly to the heir to a German steel fortune. She has an 11-year-old daughter.
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