Maria Elizabeth Ridulph (March 12, 1950 – c. December 1957) was a seven-year-old girl who disappeared from Sycamore, Illinois, on December 3, 1957. Her remains were found almost five months later in a wooded area near Woodbine, Illinois, approximately 90 …

2024年12月22日 · Three weeks before Christmas Day 1957, Maria Ridulph was playing in the snow on a street corner in Sycamore, Ill., with her best friend Kathy Sigman Chapman, when a man who introduced himself as...

The 1957 kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Maria Ridulph is the nation's oldest cold case to go to trial. This story was pieced together by CNN's Ann O'Neill...

2017年6月4日 · As years turned to decades and there was still no arrest in the kidnapping and murder of little Maria Ridulph, it seemed the mystery of her death would haunt the town of Sycamore forever.

2012年12月11日 · But on Monday, 55 years after the 7-year-old Maria Ridulph disappeared from a street corner in Sycamore, Ill., an Illinois judge handed down a sentence for her kidnapping and murder, consigning...

2022年2月2日 · In December of 1957, 7-year-old Maria Ridulph disappeared from the sleepy town of Sycamore, Illinois. Five months later, her body was found by a farmer and his wife under a downed tree, CBS News reported. But the mystery of what happened to her persists to this day.

2025年1月23日 · Jack McCullough, 76, was expected to return as soon as possible to the Seattle area, where he had been living before he was arrested in 2011 for the murder of Maria Ridulph, 7, who disappeared from a Sycamore street on a December evening in 1957.

2012年12月10日 · Fifty-five years after Maria Ridulph vanished from a small-town street corner while playing in the snow, a former neighbor was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and killing the...

2012年9月11日 · - The case of a 7-year-old Illinois girl murdered in 1957 finally went to trial Monday, with the prosecutor accusing the defendant of discarding Maria Ridulph's body like "a piece of garbage."...

2017年4月15日 · Jack McCullough was found guilty in 2012 of the murder of Maria Ridulph, who was kidnapped on December 3, 1957 while playing in the snow outside of her Sycamore home. Maria and a friend had...