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McCullough Trial
5:05 am
Wed October 17, 2012

McCullough Wants New Trial

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Attorneys for Jack McCullough have filed a motion seeking a new trial or not guilty verdict.  McCullough is awaiting sentencing for the murder and kidnapping of 7-year-old Maria Ridulph back in 1957.

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Jack McCullough trial
8:18 am
Mon September 17, 2012

Convicted Killer Faces Decision About Appeal

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Jack D. McCullough
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State's Attorney Clay Campbell with assistants Julie Trevarthen, left, and Victor Escarcida
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Kathy Sigman Chapman and husband Mike
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By Jane Denison Furness and Victor Yehling

Jack Daniel McCullough is back in his cell at the DeKalb County Jail, weighing his options for filing an appeal of his conviction on charges related to the disappearance of little Maria Ridulph on Dec. 3, 1957.

He has 30 days to make that decision, with a sentencing hearing scheduled at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 30.

In April, McCullough waived his right to a jury trial, opting instead for a bench trial on charges of murder, kidnapping, and abduction of an infant – defined in Illinois law at the time as a person younger than 12 years old.

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JackMcCullough trial
9:23 pm
Fri September 14, 2012

Convicted By His Own Words On All Charges

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"Maria's got her justice."

Jack McCullough heard his guilty verdict Friday in a packed courtroom on the third floor of the DeKalb County Courthouse, less than 10 blocks from where he snatched Maria Ridulph on the snowy evening of Dec. 3, 1957.

Known in those days as John Tessier, the 72-year-old convicted kidnapper and murderer sat through five days of a bench trial before Judge James Hallock and heard a parade of prosecution witnesses detail circumstantial evidence that tied him to the seven-year-old girl’s disappearance from the corner of Archie Place and Center Cross Street in Sycamore.

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