Judge frees ex-cop Jack McCullough given life sentence in 2012 for killing girl in 1957; new trial ordered
A 76-year-old retired police officer from Washington state who was tried and convicted in 2012 in the abduction and killing of a 7-year-old Illinois schoolgirl in 1957 will be released from prison pending a new trial, a judge ordered Friday.
The hearing took place in Sycamore, about 70 miles west of Chicago and near where Maria Ridulph was abducted as she played in the snow. Forest hikers found the girl's remains five months later.
In 2012, a judge convicted Jack McCullough in Maria's death, in one of the oldest unsolved U.S. cases ever to go to trial. McCullough was sentenced to life in prison.
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