CHICAGO - Seattle man was charged Friday in the murder unsolved along a 7-year-old daughter removed in 1957 near his home in Northern Illinois, prosecutors said.
Attorney clay Campbell County of DeKalb State said that Jack Daniel McCullough, 71, was charged with the murder of Maria Ridulph, who was abducted while playing with a friend near his home in Sycamore, about 50 miles west of Chicago.
The research of Maria involved more than 1,000 police officers and many other members of the community and it has attracted the attention of President Dwight d. Eisenhower and Director the FBI j. Edgar Hoover, who requested daily updates, Campbell said in a written statement.
Maria disappeared on 3 December, and the research lasted five months, so that the two persons for fungi to OJ the Davies County, in the Northwest corner of the State, found his remains on April 26, 1958.
It was not known if McCullough had a lawyer. Campbell Office said no further information on the investigation would be released next week and the State Police of Illinois called all Campbell comments.
Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the Prosecutor's Office in King County, wash., said McCullough is scheduled for a first appearance Saturday at the prison of King County on the investigation to be a fugitive from justice. Sycamore Police Chief Don Thomas said that McCullough was arrested for questioning on Wednesday evening.
"This crime haunted Sycamore for half a century." "We hope that the family of this community and Maria Ridulph can find some solace and closure with this arrest," said Campbell.
He said that McCullough is in prison, the King County pending extradition.
Charles Ridulph, the brother of the victim, said that the Chicago Sun-Times his family is in shock on the arrest of a suspect in the death of his sister.
"For all these years, my assumption was that he had died - that it would have been dead - if something would have come before this time, said Ridulph," 65 He said that the suspect is someone that the family knew from the neighbourhood "is simply an added shock".
Ridulph said that he was informed of the arrest of McCullough by Attorney clay Campbell County of DeKalb State and a detective.
Officials said McCullough, who was 18 and appointed John Tessier at the time of the disappearance of Maria, was an initial suspect but had an alibi. The case was cold after he joined the army and changed its name to McCullough.
"He matched the description of the suspect, he wore the same clothes, he had the first name"Johnny"and he lived on a block, stated Thomas."
Thomas said that the State Police of Illinois has received new information a few years ago which led to McCullough, and they worked with the local detectives.
"We have recently completely prohibit the alibi (of McCullough) with fresh information and new interviews", said Thomas.
Thomas said that he had spoken to the family of Maria Thursday to prepare them for the news. "We hope that his arrest and eventual conviction will bring some closure for the family," said Thomas.
Ridulph said the Sun-Times that the learning of the arrest fed the old feelings of anger about the murder of his sister, noting that his parents are dead.
"They talk about closure, which is never such a thing," said Ridulph. "It was closed quite well for us, and now it is all open again". My daughter told me when I him (about the arrest), she said it is a pity that my parents are not alive. I have it says, "thank God they were not alive to this day." "
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