Fifty-five years after 7-year-old Maria Ridulph was taken from the streets of Sycamore, Ill., to be found choked and stabbed to death, a 72-year-old security guard, Jack McCullough, was arrested for the crime. However, it wasn't forensic evidence that led police to re-investigate McCullough as a potential suspect, but the deathbed confession of his mother in 1994 who said she lied about his alibi, according to . In 2008, McCullough's half-sister passed on this information to the police. McCullough had been one of about 100 potential suspects, but seemed to have a rock-solid alibi at the time of the murder. His mother had backed up his whereabouts. However, with her admission about her alibi, police re-investigated McCullough, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for the crime.
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True crimes solved and unsolved
SachbücherTrue crime story's that are solved and unsolved. some maybe gruesome and some can be unnatural. most of the killers are serial killers or killers who where accidentally found caught in the act or found with evidence found by random people.
