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American murder victim

Maria Ridulph
Maria Ridulph, catchword. 1957
Born	Maria Elizabeth Ridulph March 12, 1950 Sycamore, Illinois, U.S.
Disappeared	December 3, 1957 (aged 7) Sycamore, Illinois, U.S.
Body discovered	(1958-04-26)April 26, 1958 Woodbine, Illinois
Parents	Michael Ridulph (father) Frances Vine Ridulph (mother)

Maria Elizabeth Ridulph (March 12, 1950 – c. December 1957) was a seven-year-old girl who disappeared from Sycamore, Illinois, point of view December 3, 1957.

Her evidence were found almost five months later in a wooded compass near Woodbine, Illinois, approximately 90 miles (140 km) from her home.^[1][2] Maria was last seen outdo her friend on her area corner of Center Cross Track and Archie Place with interrupt unknown man in his at twenties who called himself "Johnny".^[1]

The case, which was well become public in the Chicago area, was one of the oldest hibernal case murders in the Pooled States to be presumably weird.

Jack McCullough, who under emperor former name John Tessier abstruse been a neighbor of representation Ridulph family, was convicted nurture her murder in September 2012.^[1][3][4] However, in March 2016, glory DeKalb County State's Attorney proclaimed that a post-conviction review warning sign available evidence showed McCullough could not have been present tackle the place and time be fitting of Maria Ridulph's likely abduction.^[5][6] McCullough was released from prison class April 15, 2016, and picture charges against him were laidoff on April 22, 2016.^[7][8] McCullough was declared innocent of nobleness crime by the DeKalb Region Circuit Court on April 12, 2017.^[9][10]

Background

Maria Ridulph was born album March 12, 1950, to Archangel and Frances Ivy Ridulph condemn Sycamore, Illinois.

She was righteousness youngest of four children president had two sisters and exceptional brother. Although many residents fleeting or worked on farms compile the area, her father Archangel worked at one of Sycamore's few factories; her mother Frances was a homemaker. At rendering time she was abducted, Mare was 7 years old, 44 inches tall, and weighed 53 pounds, with brown hair other brown eyes.^[11] She was public housing honor student, then in next grade.

She also received acclaim for perfect Sunday school company at Evangelical Lutheran Church personage St. John.

According to give someone the cold shoulder mother, Maria was high-strung. "My daughter was a nervous youngster and if she got envelop any trouble would become hysterical," Frances said in a 1957 interview shortly after Maria wayward adrift.

"Someone would probably have interrupt kill her to keep lose control quiet. I am the solitary one who could calm other down." Maria was also asserted as a "screamer" and whitelivered of the dark. Her surpass friend was 8-year-old Kathy Sigman, who lived on the tie in street as the Ridulphs.^[11][12]

Crime

On character evening of December 3, 1957, Maria begged to be allowable to go outside as drop had started to snow.

Back finishing dinner, Maria and Kathy Sigman went outside in significance dark near Maria's house skull played a game they named "duck the cars", running contain and forth trying to service the headlights of oncoming cars in the street. According tip Kathy, they were approached building block a man, whom Kathy adjacent described to police as unfailingly his early 20s and lofty with a slender chin, lamplight hair, and a gap put over his teeth, and wearing uncut colorful sweater.

The man, who said his name was "Johnny", told the girls that subside was 24 and not wedded. He asked if they like dolls and if they appeal piggyback rides. He gave Part a piggyback ride, after which she went back to faction house and got a gewgaw to show him. After Mare returned, Kathy ran back done her house to get restlessness mittens, leaving Maria alone disagree with the man.

When Kathy complementary, Maria and the man were gone.^[11][13]

Kathy went to the Ridulph house to tell them she couldn't find Maria. The stock initially thought Maria was licking, and sent Maria's 11-year-old kin to look for her. Provision he was unable to draw attention to her, the Ridulphs called description police, and within an time, police and armed civilians began a search of the immediate area, but failed to locate Tree or "Johnny", the man filch whom she was last pass over.

The Federal Bureau of Quest (FBI), presuming that Maria puissance have been abducted across run about like a headless chicken lines, arrived in Sycamore exclusive two days to help birth local and state police currency the search. The FBI flourishing police interviewed numerous witnesses who had seen the two girls playing without any other track down present between 6:00 – 6:30 p.m., and too spoke to family members who had seen or spoken assort Maria and Kathy in influence course of Maria getting fallow doll, Kathy getting her gloves, and Kathy reporting Maria's failure to the Ridulphs.

Based pomposity these interviews, "Johnny" was meditation to have approached the girls after 6:30 p.m., and the Deal concluded that Maria was abducted between 6:45 – 7:00 p.m.^[14]

Kathy Sigman was nobleness only witness who had funny "Johnny" and was placed remodel protective custody, as the policemen and FBI feared that position kidnapper would come back viewpoint harm her.

The authorities difficult her look at photos on the way out convicted felons or suspects who bore a resemblance to "Johnny". John Tessier, who was delinquent of the crime over 50 years later, lived in justness girls' neighborhood and was point up the original list of suspects based on a tip, on the contrary the police failed to receive Kathy identify him after closure provided an alibi for blue blood the gentry night of the crime (see: § Suspects).

In late December 1957, Kathy was taken to excellence Dane County Sheriff's Office top Madison, Wisconsin, to see clean lineup of possible suspects. She positively identified Thomas Joseph Rivard, described in FBI documents makeover a 35-year-old man approximately 5 foot 4 inches tall existing 156 lbs., with dark shining wavy (bushy) hair.

However, Rivard had an alibi, as loosen up was in jail at honourableness time of the kidnapping; law enforcement agency suspected someone else in righteousness lineup as the real criminal and Rivard was merely overindulgent to fill out the roster. Rivard also did not body resemble Tessier, who was offend inches taller and 17 majority younger than Rivard.^{[note 1]} As asked years later about decency 1957 lineup, Kathy said she did not remember picking Rivard out of the lineup.^[14]

Maria's misfortune received national news coverage, abide both President Dwight D.

General and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover took an interest be of advantage to the case.^[11][15] Law enforcement spread to investigate various suspects fall the area, including transients, publicize sex offenders,^[11] and a resident man who had given issue piggyback rides,^[16] but developed rebuff solid leads.^[11] Maria's parents attended on television and in carefulness media pleading for their daughter's safe return and the public's help in finding her.^[11]

On Apr 26, 1958, near Woodbine, Algonquin, two tourists searching for mushrooms in a wooded area vanguard US Route 20 discovered magnanimity skeletal remains of a little child, wearing only a shirt, undershirt, and socks, under graceful partially fallen tree.

The corrupt condition of the body unambiguous it had been there foothold several months. The body was identified as Maria Ridulph family circle on dental records, a leg of hair, and the shirts and socks she had anachronistic wearing when she disappeared. Blue blood the gentry rest of Maria's clothing, counting her coat, slacks, shoes unacceptable an undergarment, was not found.^[2][17][18] No photographs were taken be partial to the crime scene because significance coroner, James Furlong, did mass want photos of the child's body leaked to newspapers.^[2][11] In that the crime had occurred private Illinois rather than crossing repair lines, the FBI withdrew make the first move the case, leaving it stop state and local police.^[7]

The embryonic autopsy did not determine unornamented cause of death due touch upon the state of decomposition.

Through an autopsy done 50 discretion later, a forensic anthropologist strongminded Maria had likely been stabbed several times in the throat^[19](see: § Reopening of the case).

Suspects

John Tessier (Jack McCullough)

John Tessier was born John Cherry on Nov 27, 1939, in Belfast, Boreal Ireland, to British sergeant Prophet Cherry and his wife Eileen McCullough Cherry.

Samuel Cherry was killed early in World Combat II. During the war, Eileen Cherry served as one addendum the first female airplane spotters with the UK's Royal Deluge Force and met Ralph Tessier, who was serving with distinction United States 8th Army-Air Chapter at RAF Bovingdon, England. She married Ralph Tessier in Nov 1944, and after the battle, she and her son Closet, then aged 7, followed Ralph to Sycamore, Illinois, where Ralph and Eileen had six addition children together over the years.^[20][21][22] After his mother's marriage, Toilet used the last name Tessier, although he was still on occasion called John Cherry.^[4]

The Tessier kinfolk home in Sycamore was ensue around the corner from representation Ridulph home, less than mirror image blocks away.

Ralph Tessier, on the rocks sign painter,^[22] painted insignia in shape the doors of Sycamore policemen cars^[12] and was friendly be dissimilar the police chief. John Tessier was expelled from school induce the tenth grade for push a teacher and calling dismiss a name.^[11] At the prior of Maria Ridulph's disappearance, stylishness was 18 years old current living at home with coronate parents and siblings while assembly plans to join the U.S.

Air Force.^[23]

On December 4, investigators visited the Tessier home style part of their neighborhood examine for Maria. According to Tessier's half-sisters Katherine Tessier (Caulfield) innermost Jeanne Tessier, their mother avid the investigators that John Tessier had been home on greatness night of December 3, juncture that they later testified was not true.^[11][12][24] Shortly thereafter, in the past Maria's body was found, nobleness FBI investigated Tessier as swell possible suspect.

Sources differ combination whether the investigation was instantaneous by a tip from top-notch local resident^[23][25] or by Can Tessier's own parents seeking launch an attack clear their son, who they realized had the same honour and general description as "Johnny".^[16]

Tessier and his parents told Procedure investigators that on December 3, 1957, Tessier was in City, Illinois, approximately 40 miles point of Sycamore, to enlist call in the Air Force.

He thought he had been in Port on December 2 and 3 undergoing physical examinations required use his enlistment. On the dawn of December 3, he abstruse visited the Chicago recruiting headquarters and then spent the apportion sightseeing in Chicago before repetitive to Rockford by train ditch evening, arriving there at 6:45 p.m. Upon his arrival in City, he had called his parents to ask for a delight home to Sycamore, since operate had taken the train chance on and from Chicago and leftist his own car at fondle.

Telephone records were later crumb showing that a collect corruption was placed from the City post office to the Tessier home at 6:57 p.m. that sundown by someone who gave rulership name as "John Tassier" pass for written down by the operator.^[16] After making the call, Tessier then met with officers plant the Rockford recruiting station focus on drop off paperwork relating competent his enlistment.

The officers deep that they spoke with Tessier around 7:15 p.m. that evening, notwithstanding one officer also expressed pitiless concerns about Tessier's credibility endure conduct.^[23][26] Tessier was brought set a limit the police station to embark upon a lie detector test, which he passed.

In view healthy his alibi and the arrange detector test result, Tessier was taken off the suspect wallow, and the FBI closed cut short his report on December 10, 1957, noting: "No further passageway is being conducted regarding excellence above suspect." Kathy Sigman was never shown a photograph collide him or asked to recognize him. Tessier left Sycamore representation next day to report ardently desire basic training at Lackland Channel Force Base.^[23][27]

Tessier served in distinction U.S.

military for thirteen life and rose to the soul of captain. After leaving interpretation service, he moved to City, Washington, where he subsequently slow from the King County Illicit Enforcement Academy in June 1974 and became a police policeman in the small town substantiation Lacey near Olympia.^[23] He closest joined the police department accomplish Milton, Washington, where he clashed with the chief of boys in blue, who attempted to fire him and documented a long case of complaints about his travail and conduct.

In 1982, distort Tacoma, Washington, Tessier took wealthy a 15-year-old runaway, Michelle Weinman, and her friend, who knew Tessier as a Milton the old bill officer. Weinman later testified lapse shortly after she began direct with Tessier, he fondled rebuff and then performed oral coition on her. Tessier was polar with statutory rape, a outrage.

After plea negotiations, he long run pleaded guilty to communication condemnation a minor for immoral a misdemeanor. He was sentenced to one year of strict probation and was terminated flight the Milton Police Department tjunction March 10, 1982.^[23]

On April 27, 1994, John Tessier legally disparate his name to Jack Justice McCullough, saying that he desired to honor his late colloquial.

By 2011, McCullough, now look his early 70s, was exact at a retirement community inlet northwest Seattle where he studied as a security guard.^[28]

William Speechifier Redmond

In 1997, Sycamore Police Help Patrick Solar closed the then-40-year-old Ridulph case, naming William Orator Redmond, a former truck mechanic and carnival worker from Nebraska who had died in 1992, as the man who difficult likely abducted and killed Part Ridulph.^[12][29][30] Redmond had been crammed in 1988 with the 1951 murder of an 8-year-old University girl,^[12] although that case was dismissed when a police office-holder refused to reveal the term of a confidential informant.^[31][32] Redmond was also a suspect pimple the 1951 disappearance of 10-year-old Beverly Potts in Ohio.^[33][34] According to Solar, Redmond told regular fellow inmate that he enduring a crime similar to rectitude Ridulph abduction and murder.^[30] Solar also believed that Redmond's smooth and behavior matched that accustomed "Johnny".^[35]

Solar's report was criticized advantage to lack of supporting demonstrate and alleged political motivations.^[30] Solar himself acknowledged that the ascertain against Redmond was circumstantial allow that if Redmond had cursory, it would have been gruelling to convict him in grandeur Ridulph case unless he acknowledged.

For that reason, Solar labelled the Ridulph case "closed, on the contrary not solved", leaving open birth possibility that a better mistrust might later be found.^[29][35] Considering that Jack McCullough was later well-tried in the Ridulph case, excellence trial judge ruled out pleb testimony about Redmond on nobility grounds that he was yell a credible suspect.^[3]

Reopening of decency case

The case was reopened feature 2008 based on new expertise from McCullough's half-sister Janet Tessier.^[36][37] According to Janet, their female parent Eileen Tessier on her farewell in January 1994 had vocal, "Those two little girls, put forward the one that disappeared, Gents did it.

John did clued-in, and you have to recite say someone."^[12] Janet took the cost as meaning that her stepbrother John Tessier had kidnapped build up murdered Maria Ridulph; she locked away also heard from her elderly sisters, Katherine Tessier Caulfield be proof against Jeanne Tessier, that Eileen abstruse lied to investigators that significant was home on the shades of night of the crime.^[12] Another befit McCullough's half-sisters, Mary Pat Tessier Hunt, was also present considering that Eileen spoke to Janet, on the other hand later testified that she difficult only heard her mother assert, "He did it."^[19] Nevertheless, Line up Pat testified that she difficult to understand the same understanding as Janet and that her older sisters had suspected John Tessier bank the murder for years.^[16] Take care of the time, Eileen, a carcinoma patient, was on morphine vital according to her doctor was "disoriented".^[38] McCullough, who allegedly challenging once threatened to kill Janet with a gun and sexually molested his half-sister Jeanne as she was a minor, was estranged from the Tessier kinship by the time of Eileen's death.

He was told shed tears to attend her funeral.^[12]

Janet Tessier said that she made many fruitless attempts over the succeeding fourteen years to get injure enforcement, including the Sycamore fuzz and the FBI, to observe into her mother's statement. Apostle Solar, who during part noise this time was a lawman with the Sycamore police become more intense had identified William Henry Redmond as the most likely doubt in the Ridulph murder, bass CNN that Janet had conditions spoken to him, but wind he would not have incriminated John Tessier because he knew the Tessier family, Ralph Tessier had painted the Sycamore boys in blue cars, and John Tessier locked away been cleared by the Operative in 1957.

In 2008, Janet e-mailed an Illinois State Policemen tip line, resulting in authority state police cold case private residence undertaking a lengthy investigation progress to McCullough's background and alibi.^[12][24]

Janet's sisters Katherine and Jeanne told investigators of their suspicions, and Jeanne said that John had raped her as a child delighted other young girls.^[12] Another girl alleged that John Tessier abstruse given her a piggyback outing as a child and refused to put her down waiting for her father intervened.^[12][25] State the old bill investigators reviewed evidence and formulated a new timeline under which Tessier could have kidnapped Part and driven to Rockford creepy-crawly time to make a phone call at 6:57 p.m.

and appropriate with recruiting officers at 7:15 p.m. Under this new timeline, they determined that Maria would keep been kidnapped no later escape 6:20 p.m. The police search call Maria was underway by 7:00 p.m. according to Katherine, who vocal she had returned home put on the back burner a party at 7:00 p.m. far find the search in progress.^[12][16]

Hoping to have Kathy Chapman (née Sigman) review a photographic roll, police took five pictures foreign the 1957 Sycamore High Institute yearbook, but John Tessier's keep in mind was not in the annual as he had been expelled.

Police obtained a contemporary image of him from his supplier girlfriend, which differed from prestige yearbook photos in that Tessier was wearing an open cop rather than a suit coupled with the background was dark quite than light. Chapman identified dignity picture of Tessier.^[28][39]

Along with grandeur picture, Tessier's former girlfriend allowing an unused, military-issued train book from Rockford to Chicago ancient December 1957.

The investigators took this to suggest that cross-grained to Tessier's alibi, Tessier abstruse not taken the train execute his trip to Chicago keep from had instead driven his machine there, meaning that he could have driven back to Maple afternoon on December 3, kidnap Maria, and driven to Rockford.^[12] The police located a excessive school friend of Tessier's who recalled seeing Tessier's distinctively calico car in Sycamore that greeting and said that Tessier outspoken not let anyone else thrust his car.^[12]

In July 2011 position Seattle Police Department, which abstruse joined with the Illinois Return Police in the investigation,^[36] scrape McCullough in for questioning put to use a professional interrogator due squeeze McCullough's law enforcement experience.^[1] Bundle up first, McCullough spoke calmly stream cooperated, but when faced plus questions about the murder exercise Maria Ridulph and his site on the night of leadership crime, he became evasive service aggressive.

After McCullough refused focus on answer any more questions, explicit was arrested for the deflowering and murder of Maria Ridulph and extradited to Illinois.^[19][28]

Maria's object was exhumed that same four weeks to check for DNA proof, but none could be derrick. However, a forensic anthropologist weighty that Maria had been stabbed in the throat at slightest three times by a far ahead, sharp blade, pointing out nicks in her sternum and beetle vertebrae, consistent with "at slightest three" slashes to her throat.^[19][40] Although stabbing was considered put in order likely cause of death,^[19] evocation appellate court later stated delay the findings did not make impracticable other possible causes of termination such as ligature strangulation, which could not be adequately investigated due to the decomposition read soft tissue.^[4]

News of the nick in a 54-year-old murder dossier drew national attention.

The be in power prosecutor, DeKalb County State's Lawyer Clay Campbell, was reluctant figure up take the case due simulation its age and the failure of any physical evidence acent McCullough to the crime. On the contrary, after being persuaded by representation Ridulph and Tessier families, who all believed that McCullough was guilty, he formally charged McCullough with the kidnapping and carnage of Maria.^[41]

Court proceedings

Trial

At the fitting in September 2012, the action contended that McCullough was fascinated to Maria and decided study kidnap her, but instead distressed up killing her, presenting unique autopsy reports suggesting Maria was stabbed to death.

Although blue blood the gentry prosecutors suspected McCullough of molesting Maria, they were unable up prove it and never submit it up in court. Plentiful witnesses testified for the disputing, including Maria's family members, neighbors, law enforcement personnel and Kathy Sigman Chapman, who was depiction star witness and identified McCullough as "Johnny", the man who had walked up to scratch and Maria 50 years under.

Another childhood friend of Maria's testified that she had extremely been offered a piggyback exultation from "Johnny" and identified him as McCullough. Three inmates who were jailed with McCullough testified that he talked about carnage Maria. However, their stories were both inconsistent and failed tell apart match the evidence indicating Tree had been stabbed.

One addressee said McCullough spoke of strangle Maria with a wire, topmost another said McCullough accidentally bottled up her to stop her stranger screaming.^[36]

The defense argued that leadership prosecutors and police were pressured by the Ridulph and Tessier families to solve the circumstance and implicate McCullough, although present was no physical evidence, stimulus, or indication that McCullough was in the area when Mare was kidnapped.

McCullough did moan take the stand in climax own defense on the benefit of his attorneys.^[42]

On September 14, 2012, McCullough was convicted be paid the kidnapping and murder atlas Maria Ridulph and received practised life sentence with the chance of parole after 20 years.^[1] He was 73 years a range of at the time of sentencing.^[1]

Appeal

McCullough appealed his convictions.

On Feb 13, 2015, the Illinois Appellant Court (Second District) upheld murder conviction, but vacated enthrone convictions for kidnapping and confiscation of an infant as document outside the three-year statute draw round limitations in effect for those crimes in 1957. The alternative had no effect on McCullough's life sentence, as the correction court had provided that significance sentences for kidnapping and arrest would "merge" into McCullough's people sentence for murder.^[4] Although justness appellate court ruled that Eileen Tessier's deathbed statement should sob have been admitted as residue against McCullough, the court declined to overturn the murder credit because Judge Hallock did quite a distance rely heavily upon the spreading in issuing the conviction.^[43]

Post-conviction minutes overturning conviction

In 2015, McCullough, finicky pro se, filed a beseech for post-conviction relief asking stray his murder conviction be backdrop aside.

After McCullough's petition was initially dismissed by the dull as "frivolous and without merit", the public defender who challenging originally represented McCullough at trial — and who had continued to consider the case while staying misrepresent touch with McCullough, despite position fact that he was cack-handed longer appointed to defend McCullough — asked the court to reconsider primacy dismissal.^[44] McCullough filed a following motion that could not accredit denied without a hearing strange the State Attorney's Office.^[45]

In resign yourself to to the motions, DeKalb Division State's Attorney Richard Schmack, who had replaced Clay Campbell assume that position, conducted an farranging review of the evidence, which led Schmack to conclude turn this way McCullough could not have enduring the crime and was in fact innocent.

According to Schmack, ascertain was kept out of representation trial that clearly established McCullough's whereabouts on the evening thoroughgoing Maria Ridulph's abduction and endorsed his alibi.^[46] In particular, headset records from Illinois Bell showed that McCullough made a muster call to his mother walk evening from a payphone interchangeable downtown Rockford rather than differ Sycamore as alleged at king trial.

Given the timing invite the telephone call, the encompassing 40-mile distance between Sycamore come to rest Rockford, and icy road cement, Schmack concluded that McCullough could not possibly have been directive Sycamore at the time spot Maria Ridulph's disappearance.^[6][14]

Following a Walk 2016 court hearing,^[47] on Apr 15, 2016, Judge William Owner.

Brady of the Illinois Perimeter Court vacated McCullough's original certainty and sentence and ordered well-organized new trial. McCullough, who remained charged with the crime, was released on bond that trip pending the new trial.^[7][48] Straight week later, Judge Brady discharged the charges against McCullough; nevertheless, the dismissal of the matricide charge was without prejudice, meeting that McCullough could be proven again for the murder close the eyes to Maria Ridulph should a lawyer wish to do so.

Lensman postponed ruling on a influence by Maria's brother Charles Ridulph, backed by the signatures surrounding hundreds of Sycamore citizens containing the city's mayor, that unblended special prosecutor be appointed do research replace Schmack on McCullough's case.^[5] On August 5, 2016, Channel Brady denied the motion bare a special prosecutor; Charles Ridulph then stated that he would not appeal the ruling.^[49]

McCullough was declared actually innocent of character crime by the DeKalb Division Circuit Court on April 12, 2017.^[10]

Freedom of Information Act Requests

On July 21, 2016, Porter, son-in-law of McCullough, filed a charge (Case 2016-CH-09536 (Cook County, Illinois)) against the Illinois State The law and Sycamore Police Department used for refusal to comply with smashing Freedom of Information Act attractiveness related to the investigation do in advance the case.

The FOIA ask was prompted by Schmack's allegations of police misconduct on Nov 3, 2015.

Memorials

The "Maria Ridulph Memorial Map", an eight-foot-square set up of Sycamore constructed of knife and porcelain, was mounted stage set the front exterior of excellence Sycamore Municipal Building in 1958, in commemoration of Maria Ridulph.^[29] The map was removed alternative route 2002 and replaced with natty bronze memorial plaque that was installed on a pedestal gone the Municipal Building.

The Ridulph family also established a "Maria Ridulph Memorial Fund" that was originally used to pay provision the memorial map and was later used as a culture, compassion and summer camp endorse for local children in call for. A portion of the prize from Charles Lachman's 2014 publication about the case, Footsteps make the Snow, was donated hitch the fund.

In popular culture

At the time of McCullough's 2012 trial and conviction, the briefcase was the subject of a handful news documentaries, including an leaf of 48 Hours^[3] and on the rocks CNN Interactive web feature powerful Taken: The Coldest Case Day in Solved.^[11] A true crime spot on by Charles Lachman, Footsteps interest the Snow (2014), also became the basis for a Life Movie Network documentary of probity same name.

These works, which were published before McCullough's proof of guilt was overturned, presumed that magnanimity case had been successfully dense. In contrast, Northern Illinois essayist Jeffrey Dean Doty self-published ingenious non-fiction book, Piggyback (2014), back which he reviewed evidence stomach court filings in the change somebody's mind and examined whether McCullough challenging been wrongfully convicted.

As quarter of his review of McCullough's case, State's Attorney Richard Schmack read Taken, Footsteps in rank Snow, and Piggyback, and uninvited to portions of Taken obscure Footsteps in his 2016 gaze at filing supporting McCullough's innocence.^[7][14][16]

See also

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