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The "weird kid" was likely Gerald Brooks, who lived close to the Davy family, on the corner of Archie Place and Fair St. He graduated from Sycamore High in 1955 and was not listed as living with his parents when the FBI made its neighborhood sweep in December 1957. A photo can be found of him...

There are two trails in the park named "Panorama", and the newspaper article referred to the wrong one ("Panorama Loop"). The map above with the purple square is near the correct Panorama trail. We still don't know exactly where Bill was found - the current guesses are based on monitoring the...

For anyone interested in the legalities of this case, you are welcome to check out docket #274 in 3:17-cv-50116 (Northern District Illinois), McCullough v. Hanley. You will need a PACER account and have to shell out some $$ if you want the entire filings. This docket # contains complete...

The only information we have is regarding a "Gerald Brooks" (not a kid) who graduated from Sycamore High in 1955 and used to live on the corner of Archie Place and Fair St. (SAO 3977, 4013). It's not clear if he lived there at the time - the FBI searched the Brooks house, but only his parents...

There is zero credible evidence to place Jack McCullough at the corner of Center Cross Street and Archie Place on the night of December 3, 1957. Conversely, one can demonstrate with a high degree of confidence (greater than 97%) that, at the time Maria was kidnapped, Jack was either on board...

That is correct. Further, given the lack of physical evidence, such as DNA, it is extremely unlikely that we will ever know.

Shott is most definitely NOT the one who kidnapped Maria. The FBI thoroughly checked him out. The question I was discussing was, who gave Pam Smith piggyback rides several years before the kidnapping? Might have been Shott. MIght have been Roy McDaniels. We don't know.

Very interesting. Hopefully some more details will be forthcoming, such as how far off the trail the bones were found. This area was searched at the time Ewasko disappeared, with nothing found other than skeletons of bighorn sheep, presumably killed by mountain lions. The ping from his cell...

Good article, with new info about search and rescue that I hadn't been aware of. We don't even know for sure where Bill was headed, but the best guess is Quail Mountain. We do know that his cell phone pinged a tower 3 days after he disappeared, and it placed him North of Quail, which would...

In 1957, Kathy Sigman identified three individuals who resembled "Johnny": William Crego, William Alton White, and Thomas Rivard. Kathy actually siad that Rivard was identical to Johnny, and her father Bud noted that another person, William Hegwood, who used to live in Sycamore, could have...

Youngsters, As you are well aware, this story has become much bigger than simply that of a child dying young. I have download the entire discovery file in the case of Jack McCullough, but it seems that you have access to materials that I do not. Your link - http://docdro.id/qBmayhe - goes to...

Kemo, Thanks for your insights. With all due apologies to the citizens of DeKalb County, Jack deserves his money, not withstanding that a piece of it will come out of my pocket. Guess I will have to recover it from Clay Campbell - somehow. On another note, Youngsters pointed out that...

Do you have positive evidence? If so, please provide. Otherwise, your OPINION, in your own words, is ROTTEN.

Here's a rather stunning development. Several months ago (April 14, 2017 to be exact), McCullough filed a lawsuit against several of the people involved in getting him arrested and convicted. One of them was Irene Lau, the Seattle police detective who interviewed him and later testified at...

dotr, Hello, and thanks for responding. I suspect you and I are approaching this case from different directions. However, you hit another nail on the head: "a perp can give any fake generic name he pleases.imo." Precisely. Yet, the position of the Illinois State Police (Hanley and Kot) and...

dotr, This is my first post to websleuths, although I have been following this story for a little over a year and have been doing a little investigating on my own. Thanks very much for the link to the updated article and particularly for the link to the interview with Pam Smith Long r.e. that...