ACCUSED MARIA RIDULPH KILLER FACES RAPE BEEF FIRST

PROSECUTORS in Illinois say they're going to try Jack Daniel McCullough for a rape charge before trying him in the 1957 kidnapping sex slaying of Maria Ridulph, 7. The onetime police officer, now 71, will be tried January 9, 2012 on the rape beef. He has pleaded not guilty.

 Pretty Maria vanished from her neighborhood on Dec. 3, 1957, triggering massive searches that focused national attention on the tiny farm town but failed to find the missing girl. Her body was discovered five months later in another county.

ACCUSED MARIA RIDULPH KILLER FINGERED IN NEW RAPE

RAPIST?

PRETTY MARIA

A FORMER cops accused of the 1957 kidnapping and killing Maria Ridulph has now been charged with sexually assaulting another teenage girl in the same small Illinois town.  
As we reported here in one of America's oldest cold cases of murder Jack McCullogh, 71, was busted earlier this year for the murder of the girl dubbed "Pretty Maria." 
She was last seen in the December of that year by a friend who she'd been playing with outside her Sycamore, IL home.  A young man walked up and introduce himself as "Johnny" and she accepted piggyback rides

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