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A 1957 murder case from Sycamore is the oldest cold case prosecuted in the US.
It might not be for long-
An Illinois prosecutor says he has found "clear and convincing evidence" that a former police officer was wrongly convicted of the 1957 murder of a 7-year-old girl in what is believed to have been the nation's oldest cold case to go to trial.
Jack Daniel McCullough, a 75-year-old military veteran and former police officer from Seattle, was convicted in 2012 of the abduction and murder of Maria Ridulph from a street corner in Sycamore, Illinois, a small farming community about 65 miles west of Chicago. A judge hearing the case without a jury found McCullough guilty after a weeklong trial.
Richard Schmack, the state's attorney for DeKalb County, said his review of the case led him to conclude that McCullough could not have committed the crime.
Good for the prosecutor to look at the evidence and come out publicly on this.
At the heart of the change in directions was a collect call the guy made from rockford at the time the girl disappeared.
The prosecutor worked out via record that he would have had to drive 100mph in the snow to even make it back to the crime scene at a time remotely close to the disappearance.
It might not be for long-
An Illinois prosecutor says he has found "clear and convincing evidence" that a former police officer was wrongly convicted of the 1957 murder of a 7-year-old girl in what is believed to have been the nation's oldest cold case to go to trial.
Jack Daniel McCullough, a 75-year-old military veteran and former police officer from Seattle, was convicted in 2012 of the abduction and murder of Maria Ridulph from a street corner in Sycamore, Illinois, a small farming community about 65 miles west of Chicago. A judge hearing the case without a jury found McCullough guilty after a weeklong trial.
Richard Schmack, the state's attorney for DeKalb County, said his review of the case led him to conclude that McCullough could not have committed the crime.
Good for the prosecutor to look at the evidence and come out publicly on this.
At the heart of the change in directions was a collect call the guy made from rockford at the time the girl disappeared.
The prosecutor worked out via record that he would have had to drive 100mph in the snow to even make it back to the crime scene at a time remotely close to the disappearance.
