There is new evidence has surfaced that would still exonerate the convicted Jack McCullough of a murder in 1957. That said, the prosecution yesterday. McCullough was initially found not guilty, but sentenced anyway to life in 2012 for the kidnapping and murder of a seven year old girl in the state of Illinois. McCullough is 76.
The remarkable thing is revised and it shows that the original alibi Jack McCullough would be reconfirmed.Prosecutor Richard Schmack, claims that the new evidence convinced him it McCullough at the time of the facts could not have been near the crime scene.
The little Maria Ridulph disappeared on December 3, 1957 when they were out playing in the snow was not far from her home in Sycamore. The girl was suffocated and stabbed to death in an alley. Her body was found months later, more than 160 kilometers in a forest. The murder remained a mystery for decades.
McCullough was then a 17-year-old neighbor girl. In an effort yet to solve the case McCullough was accused in 2011 of the crime and he was the following year sentenced to life imprisonment. But Tuesday finds a new hearing was held, as new evidence is brought forward.
Thus from newly requested telephony data show that McCullough to his parents called from a public phone box at the post office of Rockford, about 60 km from Sycamore. That call happened a few minutes after the abduction of the girl. That was always the alibi of McCullough, but rather the exact location of the phone booth was questioned. Schmack also said that no faith is given to the testimony as would the abduction took place earlier.McCullough was therefore impossible time to move on those few minutes from Sycamore to Rockmore.
"I know that there are people who will never believe that he is innocent, but that should not keep me from my sworn duty," said Schmack. He added that there are doubts about the fairness of the way a witness half a century after the events of photographs McCullough recognized as a suspect.
Schmack relies on data from the FBI reports from 1957 and 1958 that were not allowed during the trial in 2012.
The sister of Maria Ridulph remains convinced of the guilt of McCullough. It was not until other thoughts brought by the fact that McCullough himself at his sentencing in 2012, addressed the family with the words. Not kill "I Maria Ridulph not Die crime I did not, I would not and could not have done".
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