JACK MCCULLOUGH DENIES MARIA RIDULPH MURDER

PRETTY MARIA

KILLER?

THE man accused of killing 'Pretty' Maria Ridulph back in 1957 will "absolutely" plead not guilty to the vicious murder, his court appointed attorney has revealed.   
Jack Daniel McCullough, now 71, was a neighbor of the seven-year-old at the time of her disappearance from Sycamore, IL.
According to her  friend Cathy Sigman who was eight at the time, a young man walked up and introduce himself as "Johnny". 
 Ridulph accepted piggyback rides from the mysterious stranger and her friend left her, playing with him. 

AMAZING BUST IN 1957 'PRETTY MARIA' RIDULPH MURDER

COPS have made an astonishing arrest in a murder case which is more than 50-years old.  Back in December 1957 Maria Ridulph was playing with a friend outside her Sycamore, IL home when a young man walked up and introduce himself as "Johnny".  She accepted piggyback rides from the mysterious stranger and her friend left her, playing with the mysterious stranger. It was the last time the girl dubbed "Pretty Maria" by newspapers at the time, would be seen alive.  For the next five months, almost the entire 7000-strong community, searched alongside FBI agents for the girl and then in April 1958, Maria’s decomposed remains turned up beneath an oak tree near Galena.

Now more than half-a-century later Jack Daniel McCullough, now 71