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Police: Unused train ticket led to Wash. man's arrest in 1957 killing of 7-year-old Ill. girl
Associated Press ^ | 07-02-2011 09:57 AM PDT

Posted on 07/04/2011 5:35:01 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW

An unused, unstamped train ticket helped lead to charges against a Seattle man in the abduction and killing of a 7-year-old Illinois girl in 1957.

Prosecutors in northern Illinois' DeKalb County charged Jack Daniel McCullough, 71, on Friday with murdering Maria Ridulph, who was last seen playing with a friend near her home in Sycamore, about 50 miles west of Chicago. Mushroom hunters found Maria's remains five months later in a wooded area about 100 miles from her hometown.

McCullough claimed he took the train from Rockford, Ill., to Chicago the day of the abduction. But The Seattle Times, citing a probable-cause statement filed in court, reported Saturday that a woman who dated McCullough at the time found, while searching through personal items last year at the request of investigators, an unused, unstamped train ticket from Rockford to Chicago dated the day the girl went missing.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: childabduction; coldcase; murder
I'm glad the killer was caught but this case was bungled. Why did they never show the witness a picture? Why did they never check the murderers story that he was on a train? Why didn't they interview his friends?
1 posted on 07/04/2011 5:35:08 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW
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To: DJ MacWoW

bump


2 posted on 07/04/2011 6:11:09 PM PDT by painter (No wonder democrats don't mind taxes.THEY DON'T PAY THEM !)
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To: Baynative

WA Ping


3 posted on 07/04/2011 6:14:31 PM PDT by RainMan
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To: RainMan; BADROTOFINGER; Stoat; Libertina; Lexinom; Horatio Gates; Ramius; HairOfTheDog; ...

WA Ping

Does it seem like we have more than our share of degenerates?

4 posted on 07/04/2011 6:48:21 PM PDT by Baynative (Truth is treason in an empire of lies)
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To: DJ MacWoW

So did he save the train ticket the whole time or was it included in the evidence in the case, and thereby detective never noticed that it was an unused ticket?


5 posted on 07/04/2011 7:06:25 PM PDT by notpoliticallycorewrecked (According to the MSM, I'm a fringe sitting, pajama wearing, Freeper)
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To: notpoliticallycorewrecked
His GF from 1957 found it.

Last year, police re-interviewed a woman who dated McCullough in 1957 and asked her to look for pictures and other items of their time together, the Seattle newspaper reported, citing the court documents filed this week.

6 posted on 07/04/2011 7:08:31 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: Baynative

This degenerate was a transplant.


7 posted on 07/04/2011 7:09:38 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Something lures them here.


8 posted on 07/04/2011 7:58:00 PM PDT by Baynative (Truth is treason in an empire of lies)
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To: Baynative

An unfortunate side effect of Freedom.


9 posted on 07/05/2011 4:53:50 AM PDT by OriginalChristian (The end of America, as founded, began when the first Career Politician was elected...)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Sounds like something out of a police novel.


10 posted on 07/05/2011 5:02:38 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (Welcome to the USA - where every day is Backwards Day!)
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To: Baynative

Washington sure has had more than its share of killers; and especially serial killers.


11 posted on 07/05/2011 5:10:44 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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