In September 2012, McCullough was convicted of the 1957 murder of 7-year-old Illinois girl. He allegedly kidnapped and murdered Maria Ridulph in 1957. The second-grader little girl disappeared from the corner of Sycamore's Archie Place and Center Cross Street on the eve of December 3, 1957.
The brown-eyed girl's body was found next spring in the woods along a busy state highway 120 miles away from the scene of disappearance. The crime of the 1957 murder of 7-year-old Illinois girl shocked the small farming community. And now this case of the 1957 murder of 7-year-old Illinois girl is believed to be the country's oldest cold case ever prosecuted.
74-year-old McCullough is now serving a life sentence at a state prison in Pontiac, Illinois for the 1957 murder of 7-year-old Illinois girl.
According to CNN, he denied committing the crime of the 1957 murder of 7-year-old Illinois girl in several letters, and even in a jailhouse the previous year. He also denied the crime in a long police interrogation in Seattle hours before his arrest. According to prosecutors and investigators, McCullough's strange behavior at the time of questioning had them convinced that they had the right man.
1957 murder of 7-year-old Illinois girl was thought of having been solved already. However, this current plea from the man convicted of the murder might turn things around for the case. According to CNN, the DeKalb County State's Attorney, who also prosecuted McCullough, did not comment on the plea. He also referred any calls to the Illinois state appellate prosecutor, which also declined to comment on a pending case. According to a court clerk, both sides of the case of the 1957 murder of 7-year-old Illinois girl will be able to finish filing their briefs by late June and arguments may start by summer time.
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