My thoughts are with the descendents of the little girl's family, whoever they are.
Posted on 07/02/2011 12:28:46 AM PDT by nickcarraway
In round numbers.... If he's 71, he was born in 1942, and if she was 7 in 1957, she was born in 1950.
That means he was 15 or so when he kidnapped and murdered her. Right? That seems pretty odd, but I guess it's possible.
No, wait, I can't subtract. If he's 71, he was born in 1940. So he was 17. Okay, I guess that's not as odd....
He’s been living with a murder since the dawn of his adulthood. I wonder if he ever thought he’d get caught.
Not only that but kudos to the investigators that nailed him after so long.
I’d guess it’ll be hard to get a conviction after so long. If he was only a suspect back then let’s hope they have some good evidence.
My thoughts are with the descendents of the little girl's family, whoever they are.
I thought that was weird too- arrest warrants don’t come in currency denominations.
An arrest warrant in the amount of $3 million..
That means what? $3 million bail?
Probably, that means the writer was a product of the Columbia University School of Urinalism and was just doing what presstitutes and urinalists do every day.
And, one may ask, what is that? They provide recurring proof of why Mothers shouldn’t let their children grow up Liberal.
;-)
Unless they saved some DNA evidence with a super chain of control, in the hopes that it would someday be useful, I can't see how a sane jury could ever convict without a confession. 54 years clouds a lot of memories, kills a lot of "witnesses", and makes moot most prosecution-oriented evidence. A half-wit defense attorney should be able to handle the job in his sleep.
Why would two years make such a difference? I'd be more inclined to suspect a fifteen year old. When I was in high school, a little girl went missing in Richmond Hill (Queens). They found the body about a week later in attic of a neighbor, whose grandson was about fifteen. Of course all the news accounts were of the "He was a nice boy, everyone was shocked" variety. Guys I know who lived in the area said they suspected him from day one. The cops had him "help" them by riding around "looking" for his neighbor. He'd always been a weird kid, apparently.
Excuse me, your math is off. I was born in 1942 and I am 69. Try 1940 for a birth year.
I always get an enormous kick out of the TV courtroom testimony about something that happened 20 or 30 years ago.
Where was I on July 2, 1981 at 8:30 am? Dang if I know. I’d have to go reconstruct things to even be sure what city I was living in at the time. No clue where I was or what I was doing.
If somebody was killed at that time, I sure don’t have an alibi.
“...the writer was a product of the Columbia University School of Urinalism...”
Now now. I never heard of that either, but it could be a Washington State way of phrasing things. Many states have unique or unusual things in their criminal codes.
Like California and the “lying in wait” charge in murder (and maybe other) cases.
But of course we know rather a lot about Cali, NY and even Mass laws, since so many murder mysteries are written about those places.
Here’s something from the story that’s surprising
“After serving in the military, McCullough worked at the Lacey Police Department as an officer in the 1970s, said Ed Sorger, the chief of police at Evergreen State College.
Sorger and McCullough, known to him as Tessier, worked together at the police department.
“I was very surprised upon hearing this. It simply didn’t fit,” Sorger told CNN affiliate KING-TV in Seattle.
Sorger was surprised that a background check didn’t turn up something on McCullough.
“We all went through that process,” he said.
In this undated photo, Maria Ridulph is seen with family members in Illinois.
Victim’s family knew man charged in 1957 murder of Sycamore girl
No—you’re just two years younger and didn’t know it!
Seriously, though, this guy would have been fried if he got caught back then. But in today’s Illinois, he will now spend his last couple years in jail, hopefully repenting for his horrible crime.
I grew up in Cicero, Ill., near Chicago, and I remember a number of children’s murders in the 1950’s—the Grimes sisters, the Schultz brothers and Mary Ann Anderson. But I don’t remember this murder. Very sad.
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