IL IL - Maria Ridulph, 7, Sycamore, 3 Dec 1957

[PGW]

Are the recent documents online concerning the areas of Sycamore where the girls were abused? Did he have friends where he visited and stayed, in other parts of Sycamore?

 

[PGW]

Wasn't there a tavern in downtown Sycamore during that time period? Doesn't have anything to do with the case, but just curious.

 

[PGW]

I think I'm confusing Dekalb with Sycamore.

 

[PGW]

How young were some of the molestation victims in Sycamore? What were the age ranges?

 

[PGW]

If I had bothered to re-read the thread I would have had several answers to these questions. I apologize for that. Now, I have viewed the photo of him from 1957 yearbook that was with article about the friend of his mother's. I don't see how, given his age, the person from Sycamore who I knew who said they knew him from school, or wherever, could have actually known him. They would not have been in school at the same time. I hope DNA brings in answers.

 

[Winward1]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...arged-in-1957-murder-20110829,0,5945344.story

 

[LMax]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/0...illing-now-charged-with-rape/?test=latestnews

SYCAMORE, Ill. – A 71-year-old Washington man accused in the 1957 kidnapping and killing of a 7-year-old Illinois girl has been charged in a separate case with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl from the same small town.

 

[Darkwingbird]

I have read that he was stationed in California while in the Army. Does anyone know where he was stationed while in the Air Force? I believe it is possible he was involved with a very similar kidnapping/rape/murder in my hometown in 1960.

 

[MizStery]

My dad was recruited to work at Seattle Boeing in 1957. I was eight and had lived in Chicago all my life. My mom could walk to work at the downtown Sears near State Street. When I read this story in the Seattle paper late last year ....I felt by the grace of god a predator like "Johnnie" could have abducted me. I want justice for the entire Riduph family. This tragedy is haunting I do not think any one can read about Maria's disappearance and not be sick to their stomach.

 

[Kat]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/man-acquitted-50-year-rape-case/story?id=16124382

Illinois Man Acquitted In 50 Year Old Rape Case, Faces Murder Charge

A man who was accused of raping his half-sister 50 years ago was found not guilty today by a judge in DeKalb County, Ill., who said prosecutors "failed to meet their burden."

The sexual abuse allegation against Jack McCullough, 72, was revealed when police contacted his half-sister during a cold case investigation into the 1957 murder of 7-year-old Maria Ridulph. McCullough has pleaded not guilty in that case and will be tried at a later date.

Video at link (you have to watch a short video it will reload and then show the second one---at least it did for me).

LE is working to see if the following cases are connected:
1. Andre'Anna Jackson
2. Kimberly DeLange
3. Misty Copesy
4. Teekah Lewis
5. Michella Welch
6. Jennifer Bastian
7. Anna Lee Chebetnoy (body located)
8. Shannon Pease (body located)

(Please excuse any misspellings of the above girls names, I was transcribing from video)

 

[Kat]

Here are threads I found for girls listed above:

1. Found Deceased WA - Adreanna Jackson, 10, Lakewood, 2005 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community Andre'Anna Jackson

2. None found for Kimberly DeLange (sometimes tags aren't on threads so it might be here and I just can't find it)

3. WA WA - Misty Copsey, 14, Tacoma, 17 Sept 1992 - Page 2 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community Misty Copesy

4. WA WA - Teekah Lewis, 2, Tacoma, 23 Jan 1999 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community Teekah Lewis

5. Michella Welch---didn't find one, doesn't mean it is not here.

6. Tacoma WA- Cold Case- murders of two girls related?? - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community Jennifer Bastian
mentioned here in this thread.

7. Anna Lee Chebetnoy (dont' see an individual thread for her)

8. Shannon Pease (don't see an individual thread for her)

 

[mysteriew]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/0...illing-now-charged-with-rape/?test=latestnews

SYCAMORE, Ill. – A 71-year-old Washington man accused in the 1957 kidnapping and killing of a 7-year-old Illinois girl has been charged in a separate case with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl from the same small town.

A man who was accused of raping his half-sister 50 years ago was found not guilty Thursday by a judge in DeKalb County, Ill., who said prosecutors "failed to meet their burden."

The sexual abuse allegation against Jack McCullough, 72, was revealed when police contacted his half-sister during a cold case investigation into the 1957 murder of 7-year-old Maria Ridulph. McCullough has pleaded not guilty in that case and will be tried at a later date.
http://www.670kboi.com/rssItem.asp?feedid=118&itemid=29830813

 

[JoeFromLB]

Maria Ridulph’s remains to be returned to her family

http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2012/06/20/ridulphs-remains-to-be-returned-to-her-family/ah6x5je/

Jack McCullough is awaiting trial for her 1957 murder. He will be in court again tomorrow. He is being held on $3 million bond.

 

[JoeFromLB]

September trial set in Sycamore girl Maria Ridulph's 1957 murder

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8718200

June 28, 2012

At a status hearing Thursday, a judge set a Sept. 10 trial date.

The (Dekalb) Daily Chronicle reports that McCullough appeared via closed-circuit TV from the DeKalb County jail. Another status hearing was set for July 11.

 

[MizStery]

Here are threads I found for girls listed above:

1. Found Deceased WA - Adreanna Jackson, 10, Lakewood, 2005 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community Andre'Anna Jackson

2. None found for Kimberly DeLange (sometimes tags aren't on threads so it might be here and I just can't find it)

3. WA WA - Misty Copsey, 14, Tacoma, 17 Sept 1992 - Page 2 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community Misty Copesy

4. WA WA -
Teekah Lewis, 2, Tacoma, 23 Jan 1999 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community Teekah Lewis

5. Michella Welch---didn't find one, doesn't mean it is not here.

6. Tacoma WA- Cold Case- murders of two girls related?? - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community Jennifer Bastian
mentioned here in this thread.

7. Anna Lee Chebetnoy (dont' see an individual thread for her)

8. Shannon Pease (don't see an individual thread for her)

Thank- you for the links! I cannot wait for his day of judgement.

Everyday I check the 'Daily Chronicle' link to check on trial updays on Jack Mucullogh.

Here is the link
http:// www.daily-chronicle.com/searchresults/index.xml?query=Jack+McCullough+&engine=internal&sort=publdate&type=and

 

[MizStery]

Thank- you for the links! I cannot wait for his day of judgement.

Everyday I check the 'Daily Chronicle' link to check on trial updays on Jack Mucullogh.

Here is the link
http:// www.daily-chronicle.com/searchresults/index.xml?query=Jack+McCullough+&engine=internal&sort=publdate&type=and

My link (above)did not work,I tested the link below it should work
http://www.daily-chronicle.com/searchresults/index.xml?query=Jack+McCullough+&engine=internal&sort=publdate&type=and

 

[Cubby]

A Washington state man charged in the slaying of an Illinois girl more than 50 years ago must disclose his alibi at a hearing on Tuesday, a judge said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...-must-disclose-alibi-20120819,0,3442712.story

 

[Winward1]

Justice descends, starting tomorrow:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-sycamore-trial-20120910,0,6545641.story

 

[Cubby]

Trial begins for man accused of 1957 slaying of Sycamore girl, 7
Former cop Jack McCullough, 17 at the time, is charged in death of 7-year-old Sycamore girl.


The murder trial, a bench trial before Judge James Hallock, is likely to last three or four days, Campbell said this week.

One key witness will be Chapman, now a grandmother. Two of McCullough's other sisters are expected to take the witness stand and describe a 1994 conversation with their dying mother, in which she reportedly implicated their brother in Maria's disappearance, according to court records.

McCullough's defense team, interim Public Defender Thomas McCulloch and Assistant Public Defender Robert Carlson, lost a bid to admit old police and telephone records aimed at establishing their client's Rockford alibi. The judge ruled those records were not legally admissible and the FBI agents who created them are dead.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-sycamore-trial-20120910,0,6545641.story

 

[Cubby]

Ridulph's older brother emotional on stand in McCullough trial


During opening arguments, State's Attorney Clay Campbell said McCullough didn't join the search for Maria, when every man in town took part in looking for the little girl. Maria's remains were found in a wooded area of Jo Daviess County; she was wearing only an open shirt and socks. An exhaustive examination of her remains determined she was stabbed in the throat at least three times, Campbell said.

One of McCullough's attorneys, Robert Carlson with the public defender's office, said the state has no eyewitnesses to Maria's abduction, no murder weapon and no DNA evidence linking McCullough to the incident.

Prosecutors also filed two motions this morning, seeking a gag order so that the identity of an informant would not be released, and asking the judge to allow the informant to testify as a John Doe witness.

http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2012...-on-stand-in-mccullough-trial/a9swa9e/?page=1