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Life sentence closes oldest cold case

 
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 2:51 pm    Post subject: Life sentence closes oldest cold case Reply with quote

Nice to see that even the oldest case can produce justice.

Rest in peace
Goz



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Life sentence closes oldest cold case
By Ann O'Neill, CNN
updated 1:01 PM EST, Tue December 11, 2012



http://us.cnn.com/2012/12/10/justice/oldest-cold-case-sentencing/index.html?hpt=ju_c2

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Fifty-five years after Maria Ridulph vanished from a small-town street corner while playing in the snow, a former neighbor was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and killing the brown-eyed second-grader.

Jack Daniel McCullough, who was 17 and known as John Tessier back in 1957, was finally identified two years ago by Maria's childhood companion as "Johnny," the blond man with the ducktail haircut who offered the girls piggyback rides and carried Maria off into oblivion.

McCullough, who worked as a police officer for a time in Washington state, was convicted of child abduction and murder after a two-week trial in September. He continues to assert his innocence.


Jack Daniel McCullough was charged with Maria Ridulph's murder 55 years after her death.In court Monday, McCullough claimed he was framed by corrupt police and prosecutors. He pointed at a white box on the defense table that he said contained 4,000 pages of FBI reports from 1957. He said agents interviewed 1,800 people and cleared him.

And then, his hand still resting on the box, he urged the judge, "Your honor, in the name of justice and fairness, open the box and view the truth."

Judge James Hallock had ruled the documents inadmissible at McCullough's trial.

The case is believed by investigators to be the oldest cold case to go to trial and result in a conviction. McCullough was sentenced under laws that were in effect in 1957.

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